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I was thinking that while people were having a circle jerk about it. Average wage across the SW/Middle VA area is $15/hour and its, for the most part, a very rural lower middle class area.
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Animosity
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WA minimum is about $15 as well. West coast just milking people for all they are worth.
Chris
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TJT
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Game QA is always a weird sector. Everything I read is that the hordes of QA testers in the game development industry just float from project to project as games are completed and pushed live. Compared to generic Software QA where most of them are full time salaried employees.
QA is a shit field to be in though and a dead end in the tech sector. In my opinion.
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Yes and no, in the case of blizzard they had a million people line up to be in the "ALPHA" and "BETA" groups for testing for the sake of seeing things before everyone else on every expansion.
Shit was serious too, to a degree.
I was doing testing for WotLK and my guild / raid killed a few bugs, was kinda cool to have a GM come in and reset an entire raid and kill all the trash because you had an unrecoverable bug. I still miss the Sara screams in Ulduar, shit made the atmosphere for that raid, additionally the mimiron bomb run where you could agro a bomb and it would chase the person in proxy to it, not the person who agroed it. I stopped testing around the Champions raid, that shit was aids, all the testers said it was aids and all the devs were like "OH WELL.."
As long as your tools are decent, I don't know why you would even pay testers for the largest MMO in history.
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I remember when I made $20 an hour in Cal Bay Area. I was so excited to move out of my shared apartment and into my own studio apartment.
That was 2 decades ago.
My life has changed dramatically since then but I can’t imagine trying to live out here now with a salary under six figures.
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You can totally use QA as a vector to enter once-good companies that are now hollow talentless shells of their former self. Like half of the hires at bioware while my friend worked there were former QA testers who barely knew how to code, and were bad at QA, but at least were familiar with the company's processes and systems. And willing to work for peanuts.
He has since moved on to a mobile game company, because if you're going to make trash, at least get some fucking money.
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Activision Blizzard Appoints Kristen Hines as Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer
Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the appointment of Kristen Hines as its new Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, effectiv...
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Maybe that actually is an elaborate vtuber avatar? A real diversity officer would probably want to change things.
You'd never know the difference with how shitty video quality is in those zoom calls anyway.
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So lawyer who was handling that discrimination case against Blizzard says California Governor interfered in it;
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Top California lawyer quits, accuses Newsom of meddling in Activision case
The allegation and loss of the top two lawyers on the case raises questions about the fate of the Activision lawsuit, which accuses the video game publisher of sexual discrimination and misconduct.
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