Hailinel said: I've done game testing at NOA years ago. The poster leaves out some important details:

1. NOA Product Testing brings in a lot of temp contractors for individual projects. I assume that this anonymous leaker is one of them.

2. Contractors typically only work one project at a time. It's not always the case that they'll be immediately be given another assignment on the completion of a current one. If there's no space for them due to a lack of current projects, then they won't be asked to come back until another project opens up.

3. NOA is under no obligation to invite contractors on previous projects back for later projects. If they don't like you, whether it be because of your work ethic, ability, hygiene, etc, they will be more than happy to fill contractor roles with other people.



This dude sounds bitter because his stint testing Smash ended and he was shown the door per the expected norm. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

GrizzNKev said: I've worked with a lot of people who have done contract QA at NOA and they all agreed they have the worst working conditions for that job of all the Seattle-based companies. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Putting Rumor in the title to be safe but this seems to be pretty solid.About two months ago, before the november smash direct, reddit user noatesty posted the topic above. On it, they confirmed Ken/Incineroar were the last main roster reveals, said Spirits were kind of like Stickers, talked about the Mario Paint Fly Swatter Assist Trophy (which as far as I know had not been revealed prior to the Nov. direct), and said there was a single DLC character that was pretty playable (fits the Piranha Plant situation, but the char wasn't named)Since the image in the tweet is, well, an image, here's someone reposting the comment, also dated as two months ago.In another thread discussing potential DLC characters, also dated as '2 months ago', the same user namedrops Piranha Plant, states it won't have a fireball attack despite it being a huge part of the character, details Incineroar's side special and mentions the Big the Cat purple skin Incineroar has. (all true, revealed in the Nov. Direct and through people playing it after that)Post also talks about some significant poor working conditions for testers, which I think it's worth shining a light on. Here's a couple of notes from other Resetera Users about the situation.If anyone thinks there's more info I should add or something I should rephrase, please tell!