First off all; being payed to play games (even if it is 2000x the same level/part) is probably a damn nice job (except with bad games)
Hell, we need to do it ourselves with the modern RPG's (KOTOR2, Vampire, Dungeon Siege2 come to mind) and for that testing we pay $50,-
If you work they might actually listen to your comments on ingame-bugs too
And on the 3 notes above:
1. So?
2. Watches Kotor2 box, or recalls his DS2 Beta Version Copy. Can't really imagine that...
3. If a game is good, 20x the same area still doesn't bore (trust me, I know...)
On point one, while I am always looking for bugs and breaking things and all that, I do get to play for fun occasionally, reporting how things could be more fun, or which areas are so good that they bring me to tears. RPG's are pretty fun to QA, just because they have so much content that it's harder to get tired of them.
On point two, yes will be playing a game with drastically less bugs. Anyone who thinks a release version or even a beta version of a game could compare to a pre-alpha title or even an alpha title has obviously never touched a real alpha version of a game.
On point three, on a good game, you eventually can go back and enjoy a game that you have QA'd. However, no matter how great the game is, a QA tester will be sick of it. It