Sony's New Reality Series on PSN -- "The Tester" Grand Prize = Minimum Wage Slavery

Bamelin

The Tester
Open Casting Call!

Are you at the top of your game? Now you have a chance to prove it in the new reality competition series for PlayStation Network called "The Tester." This original program will challenge a select group of gamers in a series of tests to determine if they have what it takes to make it as an official Game Tester. The elimination competitions throughout the series will not only test the contestants' video game knowledge, but they will also challenge the gamers' memory, stamina, dexterity, and overall mental prowess. Contestants must have the whole package to take home the coveted prize in this new original series. That's because the lucky winner will earn a contract position at Sony Computer Entertainment's Quality Assurance department in San Diego, CA, where he or she will get hands on time with the most highly anticipated games in the industry.

You must be at least 21 years of age and legally eligible to work in and a current resident of the United States for consideration.

http://www.us.playstation.com/psn/thetester

o_O

Anyone going to watch?

Q & A tester = dream job? o_O

Bursar

Oh, man. This is hilarious. San Diego is where Sony Online's offices are, so the"grad prize" reward is a bottom-of-the-scale job on a temp contract position, probably playing Free Realms.

Wordherder

I've got a great idea for a reality series! It's called "Who Wants to Shovel Horse Manure."

psychotix

This is made of fail and bad.

Malkor

psychotix wrote: »

This is made of fail and bad.

And yet folks will probably be clamoring over a spot.

Taramoor

At this point, I'd apply if I could somehow compete from Washington.

Having been a QA Tester for some time, I wouldn't mind the job. And it would beat being unemployed.

Henroid

Bursar wrote: »

Oh, man. This is hilarious. San Diego is where Sony Online's offices are, so the"grad prize" reward is a bottom-of-the-scale job on a temp contract position, probably playing Free Realms.

Or Home.

LewieP

They really should patent this.

Zerokku

LewieP wrote: »

They really should patent this.

New photoshop thread eh?

Lunker

I can't wait to figure out which level the graphics need tightening on!

Malkor

Lunker wrote: »

I can't wait to figure out which level the graphics need tightening on!

Henroid

Zerokku wrote: »

LewieP wrote: »

They really should patent this.

New photoshop thread eh?

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Zerokku

Henroid wrote: »

Zerokku wrote: »

LewieP wrote: »

They really should patent this.

New photoshop thread eh?

Well played.

Couscous

So I see that Sony's marketing still has its fair share of morons.

UnbreakableVow

Sometimes it gets so hard to defend Sony.

Couscous

Bursar wrote: »

Oh, man. This is hilarious. San Diego is where Sony Online's offices are, so the"grad prize" reward is a bottom-of-the-scale job on a temp contract position, probably playing Free Realms.

Or worse, the Everquest 1 expansion.

Henroid

Couscous wrote: »

So I see that Sony's marketing still has its fair share of morons.

Eh, I actually don't blame this one on Sony's marketing. Or Sony. Really the thing that's at fault here is the fascination with reality TV shows where the winner will be given some sort of job. I mean, hell, even I watched one of those kinds of shows (The Next Iron Chef, I liked that competition a lot :oops: ).

Then again, I have heard time and time again that QA positions are temp contract jobs, and if Sony isn't being forthcoming on that, shame on them. If they've created some super contract for the purpose of this show though, hey, that's actually alright. It puts one person out of the 10-ish% of unemployed people into work! Or maybe they have a job already.

slash000

This is awful. Seriously? Anybody want to jump through all these fucking hoops to "win" a job as a game tester?

psychotix

Couscous wrote: »

So I see that Sony's marketing still has its fair share of morons.

I'm waiting for the train wreck where the person they hire is some shmuck working retail (better if it's a gamestop) only to find out he's making less money now.

UnbreakableVow

The elimination competitions throughout the series will not only test the contestants' video game knowledge, but they will also challenge the gamers' memory, stamina, dexterity, and overall mental prowess. Contestants must have the whole package to take home the coveted prize in this new original series.

ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO TEST BUGGY GAMES?

Henroid

How exactly do you test a gamer's stamina? Make them play an MMO? Or is that endurance?

Rami

Yeah seriously, this is dumb. On the other hand, if they were doing this to find someone for a creative position, an artist or something, I think you'd probably find someone with genuine talent.

UnbreakableVow

They should have made it so that you can win a marketing position.

Leitner

Why 21?

Though, the pettier the importance the fiercer the competition. So it could be fun to watch. Like a combination of the x factor and young dumb and living off mum.

Rigor Mortis

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

They should have made it so that you can win a marketing position.

That would make a lot of sense. The position up for grabs could be the one currently filled by whoever came up with this idea.

Henroid

Rigor Mortis wrote: »

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

They should have made it so that you can win a marketing position.

That would make a lot of sense. The position up for grabs could be the one currently filled by whoever came up with this idea.

That sounds like some Roman era shit, I love it.

UnbreakableVow

For starters, I'd bring the marketing campaign back to the flat-out audience-insulting Sega Genesis ads.

"If you have an Xbox 360, you enjoy having sex with farm animals. The PS3 is for people who like orgasms."

Henroid

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

For starters, I'd bring the marketing campaign back to the flat-out audience-insulting Sega Genesis ads.

Care to refresh our memory on that?

Jelloblimp

Henroid wrote: »

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

For starters, I'd bring the marketing campaign back to the flat-out audience-insulting Sega Genesis ads.

Care to refresh our memory on that?

Sega Game Gear Commercial from 1993 - Strange People, going to dig around for Sega Genesis and see if I find any (didn't get these ads over in europe).

Couscous

Henroid wrote: »

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

For starters, I'd bring the marketing campaign back to the flat-out audience-insulting Sega Genesis ads.

Care to refresh our memory on that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAL6BfEeQ2Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35jGnZ-e3jc

Couscous

This one is the best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7meLcpdfpxY&feature=related
LOSER!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJPUPimof-Y&feature=related

Santa Claustrophobia

slash000 wrote: »

This is awful. Seriously? Anybody want to jump through all these fucking hoops to "win" a job as a game tester?

If the raisins were better, this wouldn't even be an issue. Depending on the location and the company, QA jobs are actually really easy to get. In many cases, they just want headcount to fill some kind of hours quota.

subedii

To be fair, Nintendo have had some truly amazing ad campaigns of their own as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ulGdrTC44


Wikki-Wikki-Wikki

Henroid

The only insulting commercial out of all of those was the Game Gear one. And maybe the "You're a loser!" one since kids are fragile.

Edit - GET SOME

Zerokku

subedii wrote: »

To be fair, Nintendo have had some truly amazing ad campaigns of their own as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ulGdrTC44


Wikki-Wikki-Wikki

And then theres this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ip7fzt6U5o

UnbreakableVow

Sony is about to make you a Q&A tester.

Suck it down.

jothki

I'm going to assume that the winner isn't going to be one of the people who attempts to break the competition itself.

GSM

Do young-uns these days still have the misconception that game testing would be a totally rad job? I thought that was one of the (many) harsh realities that the internet had pretty much completely disseminated by now.

Henroid

I just looked at their terms and conditions of the contest and it doesn't cover details about the prize. So it seems to be up in the air as to whether or not this is just a regular contract job or the super-contract I proposed on page 1. Which I doubt in.

Fatal3RR0R

Zerokku wrote: »

subedii wrote: »

To be fair, Nintendo have had some truly amazing ad campaigns of their own as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ulGdrTC44


Wikki-Wikki-Wikki

And then theres this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ip7fzt6U5o

Oh god I remember that.

Ah_Pook

for sheer wtf youre never going to top this zelda commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwLdhygtbYs



edit: also i didnt know game testing was a coveted position?