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[TRENCHES] Thursday, July 18, 2013 - Bulwark

GethGeth LegionPerseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
edited July 2013 in The Penny Arcade Hub
Bulwark


Bulwark
http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/bulwark

Addiction starts… now.

Anonymous

I joined a testing team for an MMO as it neared completion. It was crunch time, and I joined the already-large QA team with high hopes. I really liked the companies previous works, and this MMO was an exciting prospect.

They wanted me to play the game as if I were a normal player. Going through the game with a character, doing quests as I came to them, just like any normal person would do if they were playing the game for the first time and not purposefully looking for bugs.

The team that I was hired with also had to do so. We had a blast. The long work hours weren’t an issue. As we were literally getting payed to have fun in this MMO. We would party up together, run quests, and even stand around chatting occasionally in one of the games main towns (much to the dislike of the higher-ups) to save having to do so away from our desks.

It was here that the problem started, I was having too much fun. As the testing came to an end and we were no longer needed, I felt depressed, deprived. I had become addicted to the game. I occasionally sent e-mails to my ex-bosses asking if there was any chance i would be needed to do anything in the last month before release. Sadly there wasn’t. I had to wait like every customer for this game to be released.

It got released. I was first in line at midnight at my local Target.

My pre-order receipt clenched in hand.

I’ve been playing ever since.


Geth on

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  • astronautcowboy3astronautcowboy3 Registered User regular
    This sounds like an interesting way to get people addicted to your game. "Hire" them as testers. Let them play freely. Get them addicted. Fire them.

    Paying customers!

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  • PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    edited July 2013
    Play wow for 10 years, $1800 spent plus say $200 on the game, minus aggregate maintenance costs.

    Testers get paid shit, but not that shit

    Phyphor on
  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    This sounds like an interesting way to get people addicted to your game. "Hire" them as testers. Let them play freely. Get them addicted. Fire them.

    Paying customers!

    Isn't that what releasing a public beta is for? You don't even have to pay them that way.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Marketing gone viral?

  • luposlupos Registered User regular
    ok, i'll be that guy... is there a bit of up-skirt in the first panel? ಠ_ಠ

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    edited July 2013
    lupos wrote: »
    ok, i'll be that guy... is there a bit of up-skirt in the first panel? ಠ_ಠ

    Uh, Cora has always worn pants of some sort under her skirt-thing. What you're seeing is pants.

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  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Laugh hard, run fast, be kindRegistered User regular
    Yay, Cora's dad is back :D

    Oh brilliant
  • One Thousand CablesOne Thousand Cables An absence of thought Registered User regular
    In my head, Cora's dad is voiced by Ed Asner

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