Do you want to be a video game tester?
Gaming Jobs Online says you can earn good money by playing video games from your own home. This might even seem like a dream job to many, but beware they make some very outrageous promises.
They indicate that their average member makes $39,000 per year. The earnings in this case seem quite reasonable. And for doing something you enjoy, it sounds good. However, they make it seem too easy, which makes me think there must be a catch. Let’s see if I’m right and what’s really involved if you become a video game tester.
What is Gaming Jobs Online?
This is a company that has been online since 2008 and apparently has a database of companies looking for:
- video game testers
- people to take surveys
Yeah, it’s a bit of a surprise when you see the title of the company, but they also promote surveys as being a way to make money.
Who is this for?
This will ideally be for people who enjoy video games, nevertheless, testing video games is in no way comparable to playing video games. Therefore, you shouldn’t join a company as a video game tester and imagine you will pass your day playing games.
This is work, you will need good writing skills to communicate any problems you may find and you will probably spend hours going over the same scene dozens of times.
What you get?
They provide you with a database of companies that are supposedly looking for game testers. The thing with databases like this is that they are rarely kept up to date, as in this case, and it’s possible to find better, more recent opportunities if you do your own research. In addition, do the work yourself and it’s free!
A strange thing, when I came to this site, I thought it was to test video games, but they try to entice you to join other pretty useless money making schemes, such as online surveys and they give you some quite outrageous earnings figures. I mean when have you been given a chance to complete a survey for $5, let alone $75!
When you join
GamingJobsOnline.com and start working with our Unique Job System...
- You can get paid to Play New and Upcoming Games
- You can get paid to take online surveys and make from $5 to $75 each, or more
- You can get paid to participate in focus groups and make up to $150 an hour
- You can get paid to try new Games, Gaming Consoles, Controllers or other products and keep the free products too!
- You can get paid to preview new movie or game trailers for $4 to $25 an hour
- You can get paid to review new Games for up to $30 an hour
what you get?
I wonder if
Gaming Jobs Online are really interested in helping people find work or just eager to earn affiliate commissions from people who sign up with the survey sites via their links.
They even state in the small print at the bottom of their sales page, “that the typical purchaser doesn’t make money using their system“. While I appreciate their honesty in saying this, why do they say elsewhere “you can easily make an average of $39,000 per year” as a video game tester.
Shame they don’t make the honest earnings statement a little more prominent. This would save many people time and money.
How it works?
As with all these programs that promise a lot, they make it seem too easy. This is really misleading, as testing games doesn’t work like this.
They tell you that you only have to complete the 3 steps above to start earning money. The only step that is easy, is creating your account and that is something I would not advise. Remember, you will be paying for information you can find free online.
After signing up, you take a look at their job database where you may be lucky to find one or two current jobs, other jobs that no longer exist and links that don’t work. If you are lucky enough to get a real job, you will soon understand being a video game tester is not a question of playing and getting paid.
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