Your Experience With Video Games Industrie In Montreal?
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Anarkoid replied on Mon Feb 11, 2008 @ 11:26pm |
 Coolness: 192665 | I was just wondering, who here work or has worked in the video games industry?, I know a lot of ravers who work in the industry, I myself work at EA(Mobile) and before that I have worked for two Videogame QA cies and wanted to see how widespread the connection between the industry and the rave scene is. Also it always nice to know a little more about who are our fellow ravers working in this industry are.
And well, my opinion about working in this industry:...I love it!...but nothing is perfect and if you had asked me 3 months ago, I would probable would have had a different opinion. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Mon Feb 11, 2008 @ 11:29pm |
 Coolness: 158225 | Well you know about me. And every close friend you have here :D |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» rawali replied on Mon Feb 11, 2008 @ 11:37pm |
 Coolness: 140675 | k... well... what do you do there? |
| I'm feeling like a killer robot right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Anarkoid replied on Mon Feb 11, 2008 @ 11:52pm |
| Coolness: 192665 | Porting Programmer |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» greatjob replied on Mon Feb 11, 2008 @ 11:55pm |
 Coolness: 282445 | I worked for EA under contract to VMC, what a fuckin load of shit that was. The worst job I ever had. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Anarkoid replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 12:11am |
| Coolness: 192665 | from personal experience (for what it is worth), subcontracting videogame QA companies really have worst working condition than big videogame companies like EA/UBIsoft/Gameloft...
and yeah, you are not the first person I hear from Vault saying that! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» rawali replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 12:12am |
| Coolness: 140675 | yay code monkeys!
i wanna be a texture artist |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 12:14am |
| Coolness: 158225 | Even from Ubi, it depends of the lead. Gameloft is incredible in many ways but suffers from outsourcing, like most companies lately. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Choda_Bean replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 1:16am |
 Coolness: 219960 | yea, i did the ol' testing with host in the vmc labs, very unorganised, lots of lil brats, and they layed us all off...
saying to call back in 3 months for the next contract...like cmon, CALL ME BACK for fuck sakes! anyways, it had its fun moments, when the games were near completion. then i went to apply at BABEL in the point, and they told me they were hiring 300 new kids quikly as possible blah blah blah, and after my test (which was to play an uncompleted version of a shitty old driving game from a shitty stalone movie), they told me i didnt find enough bugs in the game, and that they couldnt hire due to that!!!! like wtf?!?! theyre hiring little kids that never worked a day in their life, and they refuse the mature experienced guy, like fak off! they can go to hell! i bet theyre still hiring |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Anarkoid replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 1:50am |
| Coolness: 192665 | Originally Posted By DJ_DIALECT
then i went to apply at BABEL in the point, and they told me they were hiring 300 new kids quikly as possible blah blah blah, and after my test (which was to play an uncompleted version of a shitty old driving game from a shitty stalone movie), they told me i didnt find enough bugs in the game, and that they couldnt hire due to that!!!! Weird, you are not the first experienced tester I hear that was not taken by Babel,I am wondering if they ask the same thing from experienced tester than for new testers. Babel like the other QA companies has good points and bad points. I left Babels for many reasons, but I still have lots of good memories from my time testing there and I do believe that they are the most professional of the QA companies (for what it is worth). |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» raisinlove replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 6:52am |
 Coolness: 62940 | I worked at Gameloft (UbiSoft) for a while some time ago. First doing graphics and animation for their web games, and then mobile game graphics when they chanched their vocation. I was initialy annoyed with the boss, some french guy bent on hiearchy attitude bullshit, but the second time around I was working with a fun bunch. I like it better in a small business though. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Daf replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 8:04am |
 Coolness: 185345 | jtravail chez ubisoft depuis plus de 3 ans... pis tout comme toi(anarkoid) j'aime ben ça mais rien n'est parfais! mais je suis bien contente, quand tu décides de monter, ubi te pousse vraiment à le faire. Y paye les études qui faut pour le poste que tu vises. Je dis pas que j'aurais fais du testing QC toute ma vie, c'est évident, mais dans cette compagnie c'est facile de partir en bas de l'échelle et monter graduellement!
Mais c'est tellement cool la place et "facile" que ça fait peur combien c'est sécurisant.. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 8:18am |
 Coolness: 178635 | fun, but they seem to hire too much people for the amount of projects they're having. so they lay lots of people off... |
| I'm feeling fhtagn right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lone_Star replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 8:40am |
 Coolness: 153045 | I worked at VMC two summers ago. It was a fun job but like Dialect said, it was very disorganized. The job reminded me why I don't want to get an office job. It seemed like all the ratty, manipulative and socialite people would get their way while the more productive and faithful people were pushed aside.
Final opinion on VMC: If I were an upper EA guy, I would have been seriously pissed knowing that I'd be throwing my money out the window like that. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JojoBizarre replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 9:16am |
 Coolness: 294965 | Was at gameloft, it was awesome, but so fucking underpaid and they now outsource everything to third world country... even if they do a worst job than a trisomic monkey... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Trey replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 11:16am |
 Coolness: 102755 | I have apply to Ubi Soft a long time ago. The HR company that were doing the hiring asked me: Do you have a computer at home? And at the time i said no. And that was it, it was a no. eeerr.... i know SoftImage and 3DS Max. Whatever, in the end, i'm glad i didn't work for them because the position was for QA. fuck that. Waste of skills. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» MURDOCK_ROCK replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 1:45pm |
 Coolness: 83865 | ea is the coolest cuz they made skate.
i have a real job but if you need testers for skate 2 i have a million suggestions and would do it for the love and a chance to play before it comes out. i've found found tons of glitches in the first one even. but yeah... skate is the best video game ever made!!!! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Monsieur_Pomme replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 1:58pm |
 Coolness: 49960 | Ubisoft is hell on earth trust me ... they ask you to do overtime 6 to 7 day a week and when they don’t need any more people for overtime they fire them and they will call you back 3-4 month later. Of course if you are good at what you do and become friend with any lead/manager you may stay for a longer period but… whatever. i worked there 3 years 50-60h/week before i moved to Eidos montreal where I do 40h/week with benefit, insurance, sick day, mostly no overtime and paid more than I was at ubi.
I think they are still looking for more QA/Prod job [ www.eidosmontreal.com ] Ubisoft was a good *school* but now there is more than 1 big gaming companies. Am not 100% sure but Vivendi Universal will open a studio in Montreal too in 1 or 2 years. p.s My English suck I know I hope it’s clear enough |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Shindy replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 2:03pm |
 Coolness: 171830 | J'ai travailler chez Ubi (testeur) et je suis chez Gameloft depuis 3 ans environs --J'ai été testeur, spécialiste et je suis maintenant manager (BREW).
Oui ya des problèmes, surtout la paye, les studios d'en d'autre pays (et j'en ai 'trainer' 2 alors chui partiellement responsable I KNOW) et les avantages sociaux dure a avoir. Par contre, j'adore la vibe de cette industrie, le sentiment d'appartenance et d'accomplisement que j'obtien a la sortie d'un jeu qui a été partidulièrement difficile, et la liberté d'être qui je suis, de porter ce que je veux et d'avir cheveux coloré/tattoo/percing et d'être jeune (24 ans) et de quand même être respecter et prise au serieux. J'espère sérieusement faire une carrière complete la dedans. J'aimerais bien être producer un jour... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Monsieur_Pomme replied on Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 2:30pm |
| Coolness: 49960 | allo daf allo shindy :P |
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