Would you play a horrible game if you were paid to do it?

[Nomanslander]

Of course, I'd play that "Scene it: Twilight" game for the Wii if they paid me.

 

[Brandon237]

Money for doing something that I have already paid for in the past [he played command and conquer 4], playing a terrible game that is [CnC4 haunts him to this day] to get that money back [all $50 of it] sounds like a good deal to me [I' not easily bribed... I just... fine.]

 

[Sliverwings]

No amount of money could ever make me play Superman 64 again

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Totally.

Hell, I'd play this for money:

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Am I the only one who thought of AVGN?

But yes, yes I would.

 

[Talon_Skywarp]

I'm happy to play crap games.

Sometimes they provide good times

*remembers playing on the new golden axe*

 

[TAGM]

Well, Correct me if I'm wrong, but I though the main idea behind a game tester is to play a crap game and say "This is a crap game because of X, Y and Z," So that said X, Y and Z get fixed. So... Yeah. I'd make money, games might get better, I get to rage to people and get listened to, everyone wins!

 

[Sylocat]

Well, I've played them for free in the past, so yeah, it would be nice to get a little compensation. Besides, I could have fun making wisecracks about it.

 

[A random person]

Just about every aspiring writer on this forum would kill to have a job that basically has as its description the proposition in your topic title.

Unless you're under the impression that game reviewers only play Portal, Mass Effect 2, and Team Fortress 2.

This pretty much sums it up. Hell, if you're an amateur reviewer, writing an acerbic review of a poor product can actually be a lot of fun.

I also support this statement. Even though I've only written two reviews of questionable quality, I'd love to be paid to play a bad game so I can write snarky comments about it later.

 

[Withall]

Yeah, I'd do that. Just games that have moderate decency in them, though.

 

[dfcrackhead]

I get paid to play whichever videogames i wanna play, or watch whichever movies i want even porn etc so no.

I want your job. Where do I sign up?

I wórk as security at a medical factory, i have to walk around the site around 2 hours pr shift (shifts are about 8 hours long), but once thats done, i can more or less mind my own bussiness, as long as i react to whatever happens, but most of the time, nothing happens save a few phone calls or visitors (not teh alien kind), so i bring my laptop to work and game.

One of my friends have a job liek it where he's at a place for mentally handicapped adults, where they mind their own bussiness, so all he has do do is cook for them, and help them if they come and ask for it, but most of the time he has nothing to do either.

That guy also had a job as, i don't remember the english word for it, but the guys who move beds and patients around at hospitals, and since they always had to be enough people to handle everything when lots of stuff happened at the same time, they have quite some time on their hands when less stuff happens, so he was allowed to sleep while on the job, as long as he could get up and move stuff or give CPR when needed.

I used to work security at a hotel from 11 pm to 3 am. Nothing ever happened so I just watched T.V. and stuff and every half hour or so I'd walk around the hotel(it was 3, small floors, took like 5 minutes max). Easiest money I ever made

 

[Wordslinger]

Why the hell wouldn't I?
I like games.
I like money.
I like to play games for money, even if said games are bad.
That being said, it would be a pretty bleak existence.

 

[StoneHeart]

Depends on what your description of a bad game is

 

[GeneralAlvarez]

Depends on what your description of a bad game is

What's YOUR description of a bad game?

 

[Red Bomb]

I definatly would. Heck, Ive played horrible games for free and at my own free will (and ignorance), getting paid would just be a better option.

 

[Blemontea]

Yeah, even if it its Too human or ghost busters, as long as when i win i get to stop.

 

[Continuity]

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Yeah I would happily take money to review games, even bad ones, there is a pleasure in criticism which is just as great if the game is good or bad. Though playing a bad game itself will of course be less pleasurable but even that will be more pleasurable then normal work, right?

As for testing games that is something you couldn't pay me enough to do, you don't "play" the game you try and break it in every way possible, I can't think of anything more soul destroying than having to grind something I love into a perfunctory monotonous task.