If you want to be a perpetual beta tester, buy a Tesla, lol.
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Seems this is true for way too many computer type products. How often has Apple updated their newest operating system within a month of release and sometimes within weeks or days?
Reminds me of when Ford’s motto was “Quality is Job #1”. And people extended that to Microsoft’s motto being “Quality is Job #1.1”.
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Trust me. Being a game tester is not nearly as fun as it sounds.
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“I said fix the darn thing and leave my private life out of it, OK pal?!”
I got to “test” a bunch of logic puzzles a few decades back after complaining to the company about its website.
Mainly, I got hundreds of free puzzles and then I gave them feedback on difficulty levels, etc., which they used to tune their algorithms for auto-grading difficulty of puzzles. And I’m still a customer there.
I decided it was a fair trade – free puzzles! And I was giving them feedback that was used to make my experience better. Win-win!
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I tested some body wash a bunch of years ago.
They gave me 6 bottles of body wash and I had to keep a body wash journal (which they provided) and then a month or two later they came to my home and collected my journal and interviewed me for 90 minutes. Yes, we really spent 90 minutes talking about body wash!
I got an envelope with $150 cash in it and of course I got to keep the 6 bottles of body wash. They took a picture of my shower.
They later called me and wanted me to come in for something else that only paid $75 for 3 hours. And I had to go to them. That, I declined. The value of my time was somewhere between $25 and $100 an hour. 
have I read that story before? feels like I have. either that, or the Deja Vu module is really on point in this iteration.
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I might have shared it before… I don’t recall.
I’ve heard it before too. So, unless someone else has done the same thing…
Yes, it was shared here before. I think I also shared my wife’s similar story: she had a similar deal, but with beer. She’d pick up a 6 pack of assorted beer without brands identified. I think it was monthly. She then had to fill out a survey on the beer. Free beer and got paid for her opinions.