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Im fairly convinced that 40% of us are not gamers. We’re game testers. (lemmy.lukeog.com)

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We buy games, download roms, optimize, test gameplay and move on to the next.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

grammar_oligarch: Yeah.

That’s the new model for a lot of companies. Cut cost on testers, have an “early release” that lasts for anywhere from a year to as long as the game is on Steam, ask the community to report any issues, get them to mod to fix issues that can’t be patched, and reap the profits.

I’ve been an unpaid game tester for every Owlcat game that’s been released. I‘ll be damned if it doesn’t work.

We saw some versions of this (old Beta releases of games to dedicated fans), but it’s really kicked into high gear in the last few years.

Most big titles release and require a series of patches for many, many gigs.

I mean, Diablo 4 is jokingly finally coming out of early release; the next patch/update/whatever word they’re using now to describe them testing the game will probably fix major issues with the game.

So yeah, we’re all unpaid game testers. That’s a job market that’ll probably be dead by 2030.