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Testers are an interesting bunch within the game development industry. Large studios will typically hire hundreds of these for short periods, often bringing on
by spywaregorilla 5y ago
Testers are an interesting bunch within the game development industry. Large studios will typically hire hundreds of these for short periods, often bringing on entire smaller studios to smooth out the wrinkles in the games during crunch period.
It's likely that this isn't strictly a financially winning move for epic. Way too much cost having them around for periods of low testing needs. Reputational gains could possibly offset it.
- dundarious 5y agoTheir cash cow, Fortnite, is essentially always in development and always in need of tester labor.
- toast0 5y agoTesting used to be part of the process of a publisher. If they have more testing staff than they need, they could use some people to test games that they're publishing. Maybe to improve quality of games on their store as a way to entice people to buy things from their store (although, presumably issues that are found in this way would be fixed everywhere if the developer fixes them), or maybe as a way to entice people to publish with them.