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Posted by: Gaile Gray

Gaile Gray

ArenaNet Communications Manager

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Hey all,

Our HR team just sent over a pretty cool opportunity. If you’d like to become a (local, Seattle/Bellevue area) playtester for ArenaNet, please head over to this page and fill out the survey.

Gaile Gray
Communications Manager
Guild & Fansite Relations; In-Game Events
ArenaNet

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Posted by: rapthorne.7345

rapthorne.7345

All the excitement.

Then you need to be local

QQ

Resident smug Englishman on the NA servers, just because.

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Posted by: Darkness.9732

Darkness.9732

Yeah get a warrior/guardian playtester. Noone plays warrior/guardian in wvw nowadays…LOL

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Posted by: SoPP.7034

SoPP.7034

I’ll play test ‘Meeting the Asura’.

A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”

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Posted by: Neural.1824

Neural.1824

Interesting opportunity. Lucky for those in the local area.

Where are my gem sales? I want gem sales! Nerf EVERYTHING!

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Posted by: hrasna.3017

hrasna.3017

ah, no playtesting in Massachusetts. :^(

-Chris

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Posted by: rabidsmiles.5926

rabidsmiles.5926

Ah kitten it! We’re planning on moving up there but not soon enough

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Posted by: khani.4786

khani.4786

All the excitement.

Then you need to be local

QQ

Same. SO excited and want to be a playtester…but then the local thing. sadness.

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Posted by: Jinroh.4251

Jinroh.4251

Local. Bleh. Why not have data from all around?

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Posted by: Behellagh.1468

Behellagh.1468

What, you think they’ll let the software escape the lab?

We are heroes. This is what we do!

RIP City of Heroes

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Posted by: Donari.5237

Donari.5237

Probably people have to playtest on machines isolated from the internet and thus must physically go into the ANet building.

I know that my hopes of doing some sort of game job (I am not so very far from Zenimax) were dashed once I learned that I couldn’t telework (not so far still equals hellacious traffic making for a possible two hour one way trip). They just can’t let game dev data get out, secrecy is paramount. The mad amount of hours required was another problem, too

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

Yet another reason to be disappointed I don’t live in Seattle.

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Posted by: Miss Lana.5276

Miss Lana.5276

Yet another reason to be disappointed I don’t live in Seattle.

Yet another reason to be disappointed that I live outside of America.

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Posted by: pdavis.8031

pdavis.8031

I would love to!!!

But I live in Spokane so……

:(

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Posted by: Felicity.9406

Felicity.9406

i love too too, but am in the United Kingdom

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Posted by: Gaile Gray

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Gaile Gray

ArenaNet Communications Manager

I do understand that coming to the office for a spell of testing would be a bit of a commute for most of you.

I’m going to change my subject line to prevent dashed hopes and disappointed dreams!

Gaile Gray
Communications Manager
Guild & Fansite Relations; In-Game Events
ArenaNet

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

I do understand that coming to the office for a spell of testing would be a bit of a commute for most of you.

I’m going to change my subject line to prevent dashed hopes and disappointed dreams!

I still wouldn’t completely rule it out.

I once travelled from just outside London, England to Yakima, Washington (via Seattle) to see a concert. In a bar. It was worth it.

My one regret is that I didn’t have time to see Seattle while I was there.

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Posted by: pdavis.8031

pdavis.8031

I do understand that coming to the office for a spell of testing would be a bit of a commute for most of you.

I’m going to change my subject line to prevent dashed hopes and disappointed dreams!

I still wouldn’t completely rule it out.

I once travelled from just outside London, England to Yakima, Washington (via Seattle) to see a concert. In a bar. It was worth it.

My one regret is that I didn’t have time to see Seattle while I was there.

That is sad. Seattle is really cool.

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It’s the chain I beat you with until you
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Posted by: notebene.3190

notebene.3190

I’ll admit it. I was hoping ‘local’ meant ‘crazy’.

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Posted by: Lord Hammer Hand.4815

Lord Hammer Hand.4815

wow im near yet so far im in Oak Harbor WA would love to sniff…

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Posted by: Eirian Direstorm.9748

Eirian Direstorm.9748

In the description itself, it says something about if you aren’t local, you can fill it out anyway, in case they ever can use people who aren’t local, so I did. Can’t hurt.

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Posted by: Ayrilana.1396

Ayrilana.1396

Would it be on weekends?

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Posted by: LastShot.4762

LastShot.4762

Local, but have a day job.

If study is off hour or weekend, will definitely be interested.

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

If ANet could send a private jet plane to pick me up, I could be local……

Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.

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Posted by: Salvo.8290

Salvo.8290

You don’t need to be local to playtest for Arenanet!! Just go to the Heart of the Mists. PvP players have been playtesting for years! #Laddertestseasonnumber2 #whenitsready

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Posted by: Yumeijin.5439

Yumeijin.5439

3000 miles isn’t bad for a commute, right? Right?

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Posted by: Huge Rooster.5364

Huge Rooster.5364

oh man, I signed up for sure. live in Olympia, but I work in Redmond (another unnamed software company) so the trip down to ANET would be fun for sure.

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Posted by: Sages.3496

Sages.3496

Its been a dream of mine to help with the development of gw2 and give my honest feedback gaile, but the issue is i live in maine so..

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Posted by: MrWubzy.3587

MrWubzy.3587

Pretty awesome of you guys to ask the local players to help out! I’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot more betas come May, and I’d be happy to participate if they’re over the web. Good luck!

EDIT:

In the description itself, it says something about if you aren’t local, you can fill it out anyway, in case they ever can use people who aren’t local, so I did. Can’t hurt.

Pretty awesome, I’ll fill it out myself. I’d love to help them out with testing.

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Posted by: Cazamar.7148

Cazamar.7148

I work in Bellevue so I am definitely signing up. I have a personal day I could use to get out of work and still get paid for a day.

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Posted by: Smooth Penguin.5294

Smooth Penguin.5294

Everyone knows that this is just a marketing ploy by Gaile and the local Seattle government to get people to move there so we can work at Anet.

Clever girl…

On a side note, are some of the perks being invited to the Anet guild and having lunch with Colin?

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Posted by: Jordo.5913

Jordo.5913

Why did I have to get born into a family in Indiana sigh

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Posted by: Enchansea.4627

Enchansea.4627

What if your 1 1/2 hrs drive away? Can you still get called in for a play test? Or do you have to be in the immediate Seattle area?

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Posted by: ZettaHydrophile.6714

ZettaHydrophile.6714

Is that link going to work in two months time? (not quite in Seattle yet Q.Q)

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Posted by: Valandil Dragonhart.2371

Valandil Dragonhart.2371

Local tester.

Must be in the USA.

When are you guys gonna get past your continental hang-ups? First it’s the forum specialists, then you further narrow your scope with this testing gig. There’s plenty of international’s for the taking.

#sadpanda

/smh.

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Posted by: Eggpie.7340

Eggpie.7340

Hi Gaile! First of all I wanted to say thanks for being so friendly in Frostgorge Sound the other day! It was fun to joke around with an Official Person.

Secondly, and more relevantly, I just submitted an application since I’m quite local and have plenty of time with which to commute and playtest, but I accidentally submitted my application without putting the numbers at the end of my account name, so it’s just listed as “Eggpie”. Would that be a problem? I tried to go back to add them but it said I’d already taken the survey, so I just wanted to double check that it wouldn’t be TOO much of an issue.

Thanks!

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Posted by: CureForLiving.5360

CureForLiving.5360

I do understand that coming to the office for a spell of testing would be a bit of a commute for most of you.

I’m going to change my subject line to prevent dashed hopes and disappointed dreams!

Only 16,415 km…

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Posted by: Lady Elyssa.2469

Lady Elyssa.2469

Any chance of something like this for the UK?

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Posted by: pixie.5940

pixie.5940

Ooohh neat applied and thanks for informing us

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

Local tester.

Must be in the USA.

When are you guys gonna get past your continental hang-ups? First it’s the forum specialists, then you further narrow your scope with this testing gig. There’s plenty of international’s for the taking.

#sadpanda

/smh.

I don’t think it’s entirely their choice.

With the forum specialists it was because, depending on labour laws, they could be defined as Arenanet employees, in a similar category to unpaid interns. Which in some places may require Anet to provide health care, pay expenses or otherwise have responsibilities and costs they’re not able to cover. Or even if they were working out the variations for every country where people play the game would be a huge amount of work and may lead to resentment if forum specialists got different ‘perks’ depending on where they live.

In this case it’s because they’re looking for people to actually go to their offices to do a test. Presumably so it can be done on a machine that’s not connected to the internet and they can make sure you don’t have your phone/a video camera and therefore nothing gets leaked.

It would be a huge ask for anyone who isn’t local to do that. Maybe some people would but I can understand why they wouldn’t want to encourage it.

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“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”

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Posted by: Dhemize.8649

Dhemize.8649

Yay! Although it’s a 35min drive and a parking spot away, I will begrudgingly tolerate Seattle drivers to test out GW2 thingies!

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Posted by: Doggie.3184

Doggie.3184

Can I volunteer for a work at home position?

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Posted by: Joey.2769

Joey.2769

Glad you are doing testing.

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Posted by: Siphaed.9235

Siphaed.9235

I’m intrigued by this as to whether this is for Heart of Thorns or Guild Wars 2 in general OR a new game they’re working on entirely?

Playtesting for Guild Wars 3 confirmed? * puts up riot shield *

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Posted by: Chuck.8196

Chuck.8196

What about Bremerton? That’s a short ferry ride for me.

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Posted by: Embrace The Bold.7619

Embrace The Bold.7619

What about Bremerton? That’s a short ferry ride for me.

oh Gaile please respond to this man(or woman)! Surely we are considered local enough!

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Posted by: kta.6502

kta.6502

Thank you for the opportunity! * hugs Gaile*

I turned in my survey! I hope to see you guys soon!