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[Kergan]

Furor never worked for Sony. I knew the guy fairly well in beta, he actually got banned a couple times, including on his rogue in the beta.

The person who was the highest up that got hired from playing the game in beta was Jalen i.e. Jeff Butler who ended up running EQ Live for a long time before he founded Sigil with Brad. Dude owned a comic book store and played EQ beta a ton, next thing I know he was working for them. Furor not so much though, guy was always a super hothead and not afraid to use his platform to rip on SOE.

And Furor ended up as like the lead quest designer over at Blizzard, not just some lacky adviser guy so he did well for himself.

These guys get paid jack shit until they hit the associate producer level (and get royalties) though, no matter what the job. I was looking into a network engineering position at a gaming company at one point and they wanted to pay me almost 25k under market, just for the honor of working there. I told 'em no thanks.

[Tradesonred]

Thats it buster, no more military aid

[Tradesonred]

Originally Posted by Kergan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

These guys get paid jack shit until they hit the associate producer level (and get royalties) though, no matter what the job. I was looking into a network engineering position at a gaming company at one point and they wanted to pay me almost 25k under market, just for the honor of working there. I told 'em no thanks.

Ubisoft was bad like that, you sign a contract forbidding you to tell your co-workers how much youre getting paid. Everything you do at the computer while on the job (even on a lunchbreak) is theirs. They would pay QA minimum wage and did some psyops of giving us fruit on wednesday, everybody was like yea give us a decent wage well buy our own fucking fruits. EA and other game companies decide to set up shop in Montreal and suddenly they feel generous and give us a 1.50$ an hour wage.

They would try to force us to do overtime by trying to make us feel about "2 or 3 people carrying the whole team". Made an 80hour week on one close to gold occasion, shit was ridiculous people where falling asleep at their workdesk.

[Tradesonred]

Ubisoft was bad like that, you sign a contract forbidding you to tell your co-workers how much youre getting paid. Everything you do at the computer while on the job (even on a lunchbreak) is theirs. They would pay QA minimum wage and did some psyops of giving us fruit on wednesday, everybody was like yea give us a decent wage well buy our own fucking fruits. EA and other game companies decide to set up shop in Montreal and suddenly they feel generous and give us a 1.50$ an hour raise

They would try to force us to do overtime by trying to make us feel guilty about "2 or 3 people carrying the whole team". Made an 80hour week on one close to gold occasion, shit was ridiculous people where falling asleep at their workdesk.

(Hate that no edit shit)

[Sear]

Originally Posted by Kergan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And Furor ended up as like the lead quest designer over at Blizzard, not just some lacky adviser guy so he did well for himself.

These guys get paid jack shit until they hit the associate producer level (and get royalties) though, no matter what the job. I was looking into a network engineering position at a gaming company at one point and they wanted to pay me almost 25k under market, just for the honor of working there. I told 'em no thanks.

pretty standard tbh

Most gamers are willing to work for peanuts just to get their foot in the door. Even seniors/vets will effectively take a pay cut if the company/game is good enough.

People will sling around the term "sweatshop", but I never had a problem with it. I knew what I was getting into, and nobody forces you to work in the gaming industry instead of taking a higher-paying 9-to-5 doing whatever.

[Ames who?]

Originally Posted by mitic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wow, it looks like WoW was build from former eq players

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pardo

Welcome to 2004 you fucking moron.

[Tradesonred]

Originally Posted by Sear [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

pretty standard tbh

Most gamers are willing to work for peanuts just to get their foot in the door. Even seniors/vets will effectively take a pay cut if the company/game is good enough.

People will sling around the term "sweatshop", but I never had a problem with it. I knew what I was getting into, and nobody forces you to work in the gaming industry instead of taking a higher-paying 9-to-5 doing whatever.

Nobodys forcing them to pay their worker shit wages either, or open up offices in Shanghai, like Ubisoft did, after getting huge tax cuts (Something like 500 million dollars) to set up shop in Quebec.

[Farzo]

Originally Posted by Kergan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

.....they wanted to pay me almost 25k under market, just for the honor of working there. I told 'em no thanks.

Yah fark that shit.

Should have pulled your dick out and whipped it 'round n ' round when they asked you that.

[Pseudechis]

Early triton members on povar all duped gold to level skills. Triton were first to kill emperor on luclin.

[Instagib]

Gaming Corporations are people too