RE: From Spending Money To Making Money From My Hobby
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I know a guy who gets paid to beta test games and at first I was like "oh wow, that's awesome! can i get in on that?"
This was when he told me that beta testing games actually kind of sucks because the games are broken and are normally from shitty studios. He says the amount of games that he was paid to play that he actually enjoyed were few and far between. Mostly, he absolutely hated all the games he beta tested and once you sign on, you have to fulfill the number of hours you agreed to before you get paid. You can bail on these contracts but then you get blacklisted.
It also doesn't pay very well because there is a long list of people that would be willing to take your place because everyone thinks that testing games for a living would be an awesome job .
I see. they do have this in web3 as well but as far as I know there's no contract. It's more like giving feedback and choosing the best one or doing rewards for those that end up on top which is a bit different.
To be fair though if u playing something in beta, it should be expected taht it's not perfect right? We should be going in knowing that there may be bugs or huge things that we might not like. That's where we give the feedback to improve!
as for this well, there's a lot of people that are willing to do this. I think it just depends on if its suitable for us. some people like trying new games and wont mind the bugs and get paid for it to give feedback. its like garbage cleaners like u and me we wouldnt do this but someones doing it for us and totally appreciate whoevers doing it!
yes, there are tons of people that beta test for free. this friend of mine is just one of the few that I have heard of that does this for a job. It probably could be considered "alpha" testing actually because when he is involved in testing it isn't yet open to the public.
Have you ever beta tested a game?
ya but it's usually web3 games. O.O there was bug of course but a lot of money to be made if u are early investor. i guess its like investor + getting first dibs to try to the game hehe