Sega hiring CoH QA

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Knowledge and playtime (100h+) of the Total War franchise (preferably from Warhammer 1 and forward) and/or equivalent knowledge and playtime for Company of Heroes series.

Jump back to quoted post9 Dec 2019, 08:39 AMThe amazing Chandler

Thats nice to see, I suppose we can get (slowly) exited for COH 3. Hopefully we get some official announcement soon.

Jump back to quoted post10 Dec 2019, 18:51 PMWingZero

By the time COH3 will be out majority of the now dwindle RTS crowd will be in their late 30s and 40s. The new kids love that Fortnite BS these days.

Jump back to quoted post10 Dec 2019, 19:44 PMDoomlord52

Unfortunately, you're probably right (partially; the RTS genre is likely too niche to for CoH-type "$60" games to be profitable (but I'm no market analyst). While I do think there's some sort of new CoH game coming, I don't think it's going to be the "CoH3" many people are expecting.

I don't think it's an issue of "new kids" not being interested in RTS, though. It's likely just a naturally declining genre; "Arena Shooters" (Quake type games, etc.) have had similar issues in recent years, despite there 'supposedly' being a large demand for modern games in that style, and those are very fast pace 'twitch' shooters that many would expect to be popular.

If there ever is a CoH sequel, I'd expect it to be an F2P "CoH2 relaunch". This would mean recycling a lot of the underlying assets (art, UI, code, etc.) to keep costs down, but then adding a bunch of new features/modes/"Cosmetic MTX" to drive interest and profit. Basically, I'm expecting another attempt at 'Company of Heroes: Online'.

Jump back to quoted post11 Dec 2019, 15:59 PMTickTack

That is a non-technical, junior QA role. Doesn't speak much to their dev methodology if that's as sophisticated as it gets.

They should at least be looking at tools like newman and nodeJS