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[Ishma3L]

 

[Wildebeest]

$500 worth of company scrip for a game that will be shut down in under a month.

 

[FoxMcChief]

 

[Sethbacca]

How do you think q&a works usually?

Internal teams of hired testers has always been my assumption to get it to the beta phase.

 

[CrimsonTide]

so 30 hours of work for $500?

No thanks

 

[Hudo]

More like "Fuck You"

 

[Shubh_C63]

Bungie testing would people even want to play this game for more than a month. Crucial testing period I suppose.
Even in free beta people were kinda done after playing it for 8 hours.

 

[yurinka]

The first Get-Paid2Play, Buy2Play game. So innovative.

Crazy needing to pay people.

They sound incredibly desperate.

Is this the birth of a new genre when F2P games pay you to play?

If you're having to pay people to participate in your beta test, it's probably a bad sign for the product.

They had like over half a million people who applied to playtest it for free. So it isn't that they need to pay people to have players trying it.

In the gaming industry some playtests are compensated (particularly the long ones or when only with specific targed users), others are free (normally online only with random players). That's all.

 

[The_hunter]

comes out to $16 an hour, but in gift cards

 

[cormack12]

I got into it through gaf. Eventually got me an industry job. lol

M-M-M-Mercante?

 

[Liopleurodon]

That's what happens when your characters aren't sexually attractive

 

[Clear]

Yeah, lets hate on a company for trying to make a better product! Fuck those guys, we've made up our minds its unsalvageable!

/facepalm

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Yeah, lets hate on a company for trying to make a better product! Fuck those guys, we've made up our minds its unsalvageable!

/facepalm

 

[StreetsofBeige]

They had like over half a million people who applied to playtest it for free. So it isn't that they need to pay people to have players trying it.

In the gaming industry some playtests are compensated (particularly the long ones or when only with specific targed users), others are free (normally online only with random players). That's all.

Where does it say 500,000+ applied to play it?

 

[BlackTron]

Is this the birth of a new genre when F2P games pay you to play?

Paid-to-Play

 

[Luipadre]

500? not worth my time sorry

 

[StreetsofBeige]

500? not worth my time sorry

- $500/30 hrs = $16.67/hr. And that assumes you only play 1 hr minimums making it 30 hrs
- Must play at least 1 hour per day for 30 straight days
- Must play it from Sept 8 to Oct 7
- Must play between certain set hours on weekdays and weekends that are only 4 or 6 hr blocks
- Must complete overall survey and weekly surveys

If you meet all the requirements, you get a $500 gift card. lol

 

[yurinka]

Where does it say 500,000+ applied to play it?

In the usercount of the Discord where you had to go to apply for it, which skyrocketed when announced it.

 

[Pop]

An hour every day might be too much

 

[Horseganador]

This should have been canceled since April. I understand that they want another Helldivers 2, but Marathon won't be it. They're just prolonging the agony.

 

[Perrott]

I guess I didn't realize that was much of a thing. I know studios have their own internal testers but I figured betas are usually invite only freebies.

This is not a marketing alpha or beta (aka, a demo), but a playtest that was meant to remain a behind-the-scenes endeavor.

 

[Vlodril]

Internal teams of hired testers has always been my assumption to get it to the beta phase.

No there is a lot of external q&a that happens too. Depends on the kind of game perhaps. There are also stress tests and things you just cannot do with internal teams.

 

[Fabieter]

Just cancel is already.

 

[Success]

This game is beyond cooked.

Shutdown message max, 18 months after release.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Last ditch effort, they will literally pay you to play their game. This is a bigger red flag than Concord,

 

[DannyDanger]

Unless they change the whole asthetic this game has no hope

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

If you're working 30 hours for a $500 gift card, I dunno what to tell you, man.

I understand the argument that "some people enjoy the game", but I just don't believe it.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Last ditch effort, they will literally pay you to play their game. This is a bigger red flag than Concord,

Bungie: We're going to pay people for their labor.

NeoGAF:

 

[cormack12]

 

[Mattyp]

Pretty standard if they want people to play test and quality control properly it's an actual job of finding faults and issues, I wouldn't work for that amount but sure plenty would.

Interesting they just didn't shelve this indefinitely, hype some destiny 3 news, then release a statement in 12 months time.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Interesting they just didn't shelve this indefinitely, hype some destiny 3 news, then release a statement in 12 months time.

Why spend 6 years making Destiny 3 (burning a hole in their pocket) when they can pump the existing Destiny player base twice a year for the next 6 years?

 

[RCU005]

Wouldn't the $500 cause a bias in the survey answers? People will likely say they like the game to be sure they get the money.

 

[daxgame]

Well I guess they can keep paying players post release too. That should keep the userbase alive.

 

[ReBurn]

They gotta pay people to try it?

 

[Parazels]

... and you can only waste spend this money on in-game purchases!

 

[apocaliptic]

When no one wants to play your game you have to pay them to play it

 

[Kerotan]

You couldn't pay me enough to spend 30 days playing a bungie PvP whether it's Halo, Destiny or Marathon. Their PvE on Destiny however was top class.