Ghostcrawler wants to hire regular people to help with Riot's MMO

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It’s almost as if he’s watching accusations about WoW devs being out of touch with players, except if they go through with this it will be going beyond what any other major studio has done. Sounds almost like the community council, but paid positions.

“Related to my long thread on getting into the biz, we would like to hire some people with no prior experience to work on the MMO. It won’t be for awhile and there won’t be 500 of those jobs, but we think the perspective will help us, and we can give back to the community a bit.”

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Would it be the same as other QA jobs or like people in the back-end communicating with devs if things are actually fun or what’s working/what’s not? Pretty cool.

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So, hiring interns.

So innovative.

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Interns are rarely inexperienced outsiders with no background in the industry. They usually have education and some work experience.

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Unexperienced does not mean uneducated lol.
They are most certainly not hiring people without a degree.

He is glorifying hiring fresh graduates. That’s it.

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I respectfully disagree, I don’t know why anyone with an education and work experience (in the same field) would be brought on as an intern and not as some entry-level or higher position.

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I only charge about $75/hr. I’m a man of the people. An Army Vet, Husband, Father, Surgical Assistant, and avid fisherman. I overengineer even the most mundane of tasks.

Come to think of it. I’m overqualified.

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What’s your source on this?

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Common sense.

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At last, a job I’m qualified for!

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So you’re guessing in other words.

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Define “regular” people. I’m fairly irregular with off topic beats…

ok bad joke

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Aren’t we all?
It’s a vague tweet.

How exactly do you envision that job listing?

Junior Game Developer

  • Ability to make a game not required
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Do you let people know your pronouns or list them on correspondence? If so, yeah, you’re weird.

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I dont think they are going to just hire people who play the game and have no other training in anything to do with programming or whatever other skills are needed by a game studio. I mean, what would I do if I was hired? Push the tea trolley? Sort the paper mail? Shred iffy documents? Check grammar?

I can imagine me at a dev meeting. My input would be: “But how does that actually work? No please, use words I dont need to use a technical dictionary to understand…”

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You’d be the “regular” guy in Office Space that says what he’d do with a million dollars. “2 chicks at the same time.”

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That would be ultrakek for me, given Im a senior woman. I’d be more…“Can we have Chris Hemsworth in for a model for…some NPC or other…and I’ll just stand and watch”?

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I’m just sticking with “they.” I know my Subject Verb agreement self is screaming, but I it’s the safest way without learning the 900 variations

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I don’t know if this effort at Riot is spearheaded by Ghostcrawler or not, but it would be consistent with his time on the WoW team. He was easily one of the top 5 in level of engagement with the community and seemed to want regular discourse between the company and the players, even if that never really materialized.

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