Cooper, that’s not a fun job anyway. It kills one’s interest in video gaming because you have to play the same level over and over and over again without the music or voice acting. It turns video games into “work.”
The pay isn’t much better than what he’d make at Grumbel’s anyway. I applied for a video game tester position about a year before this strip came out, and they offered 50 cents more than minimum wage per hour. (I didn’t take the job.)
Not to mention that you can’t choose which games to test. You have to be wiling to play everything from the next big CoD release to ones that make E.T. look entertaining.
Competitive video gaming didn’t pay well back then. Even now, as with other forms of entertainment, getting paid for it requires superlative talent, skill, and sponsor relations, and a good bit of luck.
not to mention that the majority of revenue players get is via streaming. You could be winning every tournament you enter, but if you don’t stream (or no one watches you for any number of reasons) then you’re working a day job to make ends meet
Cooper, that’s not a fun job anyway. It kills one’s interest in video gaming because you have to play the same level over and over and over again without the music or voice acting. It turns video games into “work.”
And that’s if you’re lucky. Some testers have to just turn the machine off and on all day.
The pay isn’t much better than what he’d make at Grumbel’s anyway. I applied for a video game tester position about a year before this strip came out, and they offered 50 cents more than minimum wage per hour. (I didn’t take the job.)
Not to mention that you can’t choose which games to test. You have to be wiling to play everything from the next big CoD release to ones that make E.T. look entertaining.
Competitive video gaming didn’t pay well back then. Even now, as with other forms of entertainment, getting paid for it requires superlative talent, skill, and sponsor relations, and a good bit of luck.
not to mention that the majority of revenue players get is via streaming. You could be winning every tournament you enter, but if you don’t stream (or no one watches you for any number of reasons) then you’re working a day job to make ends meet