After some recent expansion last year by Sega UK, The Guardian games blog opened their comments as a mini-form for games testers to comment and talk about their experiences working in games testing. There were quite a few responses with varying degrees of satisfaction, with many complaints about mis-management, lack of respect and generally low-wages, however, many speak about the great experiences they had working with testing, experiencing project environments and moving up within the ranks of the industry.

Quotes and link after the jump…

A sample pro…

I’ve been testing games now for about 5 years. Starting off as a localisation tester for a thrid party house and now I run a test department in Amsterdam testing some of the most rocking games coming out.
Fair enough my ascent has been slow, but I’ve thoroughly enojoyed most of the 50 odd projects I’ve had so far. Some lasting only hours, some lasting many months.

A sample con…

I was a games tester for 3 years… I would now like to die - FACT.

Do it for a month then run away, otherwise it will destroy your love of games, people and pathetic mess known as “The games industry”.

Feel free to leave comments with your experiences in games QA or production.

[Read more of Testing Times @ Guardian games blog]