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Title: Turbine is close to releasing a MOBA
Post by stainer on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 12:11pm

Multiplayer online battle arena

What ever that is. They are hiring game testers right now. The WB/Turbine website has scrubbed the word "MOBA" and "impending release" from the ad, but those are still available on other job sites.

https://careers.timewarner.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_jobdetail.asp?partnerid=391&siteid=36&jobid=634960

http://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=73368403&aff=473EFCF0-7FB9-409B-833C-73E0BC7E3F8B

This position is responsible for carrying out Quality Assurance procedures to support the testing and verification for Turbine's upcoming MOBA game. The QA Tester must use his or her judgment to evaluate game content in a thorough manner given a limited amount of time. This person will choose what and how to test while working within broad guidelines provided by the Qualitative QA Lead and Senior Tester.

Title: Re: Turbine is close to releasing a MOBA
Post by Gunga on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 12:43pm

stainer wrote on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 12:11pm:

http://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=73368403&aff=473EFCF0-7FB9-409B-833C-73E0BC7E3F8B

This position is responsible for carrying out Quality Assurance procedures to support the testing and verification for Turbine's upcoming MOBA game. The QA Tester must use his or her judgment to evaluate game content in a thorough manner given a limited amount of time. This person will choose what and how to test while working within broad guidelines provided by the Qualitative QA Lead and Senior Tester.

Title: Re: Turbine is close to releasing a MOBA
Post by Maxwell Edison on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 12:44pm

Quality post Gunga, especially when followed up by the sig pic.

Title: Re: Turbine is close to releasing a MOBA
Post by Elegorne on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 12:46pm

hmmm..."WLO"? (Wayward Lobster Online^tm)

Title: Re: Turbine is close to releasing a MOBA
Post by Gunga on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 12:54pm

Maxwell Edison wrote on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 12:44pm:

Quality post Gunga, especially when followed up by the sig pic.

The quality of all of my posts is increased with that sig pic. Huge chimp nuts are funny.

Title: Re: Turbine is close to releasing a MOBA
Post by Allo on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 1:04pm

I thought this was the "Guardians of Middle Earth" game that was just released - they were working on two of them?

Title: Re: Turbine is close to releasing a MOBA
Post by stainer on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 1:07pm

Allo wrote on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 1:04pm:

I thought this was the "Guardians of Middle Earth" game that was just released - they were working on two of them?

That was done by another WB property. Which seems dumb.

Title: Re: Turbine is close to releasing a MOBA
Post by Flav on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 1:29pm

stainer wrote on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 12:11pm:

Multiplayer online battle arena

This position is responsible for carrying out Quality Assurance procedures to support the testing and verification for Turbine's upcoming MOBA game. The QA Tester must use his or her judgment to evaluate game content in a thorough manner given a limited amount of time. This person will choose what and how to test while working within broad guidelines provided by the Qualitative QA Lead and Senior Tester.

I really hope the guys they hire won't have to deal with a code similar to the clusterfuck DDO seems to be. ( When a dev tells that doors and quite a lot of things are related and that changing something in a single one of the quite a lot of things will fuck up doors really bad you know the code has to be a clusterfuck )

Oh and could it be a Harry Potter Thingie ? ( come on multiplayer online battles of wizards... )

Title: Re: Turbine is close to releasing a MOBA
Post by cdr on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 1:35pm

I expect DDO's codebase was reasonably fine back in 2006. Code rots, always easier to work on a fresh codebase than an old creaky one.

Title: Re: Turbine is close to releasing a MOBA
Post by fco-karatekid on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 5:49pm

I agree a big part of their game issues stem from age; but that excuse died about three updates after the lawsuit ended. They started half-assing, outsourcing, or whatever it is that led them to this Jenga code base.

It's to the point now that the more players ask them to work on, the more they're gonna break due to all the mcGuyver shit they've been doing since.