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

[GeneralAlvarez]

Once in my youth [why do you sound like an old person?] don't interrupt me subtitles [Sorry]

Anyway, a long time ago [in a galaxy far, far away] I saw this one commercial advertising [which is pretty much what commercials do] for a gaming company. For five minutes they described a life in gaming and never in my life have I found the subject so boring. The interesting thing about it was that it only depicted ONE of the many jobs in video gaming [many?] and it was testing video game prototypes. The theory intrigued me when the commercial said ?You can get PAID to PLAY video games!? [funny how they never tell you HOW much you get paid]. ?Wow? I?d say to myself, ?I could get paid to play video games?? but then Xplay would come back on and I?d completely forget about it [ladies and gentlemen, the American attention span!]

Now around five years later [he?s been counting!] the idea came back to me when I was puzzling the idea of reviewers. What if the game you?re being paid to play isn?t really good? What if it?s horrible? What if it?s the worst game ever!? Do you think you can make it through the entire game and accept the pay check? Or do you punch the developers face and yell ?What is wrong with you!???

And so now I ask you [ME!?] not you, them. [Oh?]
Would you play a horrible video game if you were getting paid to do it? [For only $10-20 an hour?]

 

[Baby Tea]

Heck yeah I'd play a horrible game for money.
I worked at Burger King, Wal-Mart, and in retail for money, so why wouldn't I play a crappy game?

 

[Marmooset]

I've played 'em for free. So yeah.

 

[Koeryn]

Yes. Yes I would.

 

[Harkonnen64]

I absolutely would; money is money and I NEED money, so long as its at least minimum wage, 'cus that's fair.

 

[JWRosser]

I would, assuming it wasn't horribly grouling hours.

 

[MiserableOldGit]

Er, isnt that a data entry job? I've been doing that bugger for years. The graphics are shit and the gameplay hasnt changed in decades.

 

[teisjm]

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

 

[Mavvy]

$10-20 an hour, considering i'm 17 and get paid £6 per hour in my part time job, sure.

 

[Freetux]

A friend of mine is a tester for Activision, I met him yesterday and the game he has been testing for the last two weeks is the new barbie's horseback adventure. I'm not so sure I could keep my sanity playing that bad a game for two weeks at a time.

 

[Stefan Larsen]

look at yatzee, he has an awesome job

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Yes. Yes I would. I don't know if I'd want to do it for a living, but given all the indignities I've suffered for a paycheck over my decade of being a contributor to the economy, I'd say that playing terrible games for pay is not beneath me.

 

[Proteus214]

Hell, the LRR crew makes thousands of dollars every year playing Desert Bus!

Although it all goes to charity, but still, they play until people stop giving them money.

 

[Sojoez]

Play a full game until the end once for money? Yes.
Test a beta version for money? Heck no!

See, when you get paid to play a game you are not actually playing. You are testing every little bug and glitch you could possibly find. And after that you have to wright a report about it. Also, the pay for that is minimum at least. Others could explain better I suppose.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Its money so yeah.

 

[migo]

Assuming I can't get a better paying job, no video game can possibly be bad enough to not be worth playing through if I'm getting money. And back when EA had lots of QA people, they paid big overtime when deadlines were coming up and gave everyone free food on top. People would ***** about it after they got laid off, but it wasn't a bad job by any means.

 

[PurpleSky]

Once in my youth [why do you sound like an old person?] don't interrupt me subtitles [Sorry]

Anyway, a long time ago [in a galaxy far, far away] I saw this one commercial advertising [which is pretty much what commercials do] for a gaming company. For five minutes they described a life in gaming and never in my life have I found the subject so boring. The interesting thing about it was that it only depicted ONE of the many jobs in video gaming [many?] and it was testing video game prototypes. The theory intrigued me when the commercial said ?You can get PAID to PLAY video games!? [funny how they never tell you HOW much you get paid]. ?Wow? I?d say to myself, ?I could get paid to play video games?? but then Xplay would come back on and I?d completely forget about it [ladies and gentlemen, the American attention span!]

Now around five years later [he?s been counting!] the idea came back to me when I was puzzling the idea of reviewers. What if the game you?re being paid to play isn?t really good? What if it?s horrible? What if it?s the worst game ever!? Do you think you can make it through the entire game and accept the pay check? Or do you punch the developers face and yell ?What is wrong with you!???

And so now I ask you [ME!?] not you, them. [Oh?]
Would you play a horrible video game if you were getting paid to do it? [For only $10-20 an hour?]

So are subtitles your thing ? Like that Calumon kid?

On Topic I'd do things alot worse for money..