"socially retarded" would have been fineAries_37 wrote:
He lives in a gaming house with his team. 7 guys playing LoL for 12+ hours a day.
I would kill my self if I had to do that.Aries_37 wrote:
He lives in a gaming house with his team. 7 guys playing LoL for 12+ hours a day.
you probably would, I doubt many people wouldn't.Mutantbear wrote:
id kill myself if I had to be you for one day
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yeah and what about when the 'e-sports' thing falls through (it will, trust me, it did for me when i played fps games... i.e. it became wholly corporate, teams started having cash-sucking managers, sponsorship deals become questionable; basically the whole hyped-industry was maturing and people were starting to see through the dust that it wasn't the road to corporate millions) and these guys are turfed out on their asses again? they've spent the best years of young adulthood playing computer-games 12 hours a day: socially retarded, disconnected from the realwordl, not to mention with a yawning hole in their resumes. i'm not sure any employer is really looking for somebody with an APM of 250 or the best ashe play in asia. it's completely short-sighted.Aries_37 wrote:
It's not a great lifestyle but what the videos don't tell you is that between them they probably make over half a million dollars in livestream revenue a year. Their website also gets a ton of traffic and makes them a tidy sum as well.
Practicing at the game and winning tournaments is really just so they can attract more stream viewers. I doubt they really care that they could be having more fun.
I doubt anyone has any delusions about the long-term prospects of pro gaming; they're all just trying to ride this for as long as possible. Several of the big name players had already dropped out of college before they even became pro at LoL. For them their options were to start working in walmart at 20 or start working there a few years later but with 6 figures in the bank. During those years they do something they enjoy, get to travel a fair bit and have hundreds of thousands of fans watching them play and follow their lives. It's really not terrible considering what they could have done with themselves otherwise.Uzique wrote:
yeah and what about when the 'e-sports' thing falls through (it will, trust me, it did for me when i played fps games... i.e. it became wholly corporate, teams started having cash-sucking managers, sponsorship deals become questionable; basically the whole hyped-industry was maturing and people were starting to see through the dust that it wasn't the road to corporate millions) and these guys are turfed out on their asses again? they've spent the best years of young adulthood playing computer-games 12 hours a day: socially retarded, disconnected from the realwordl, not to mention with a yawning hole in their resumes. i'm not sure any employer is really looking for somebody with an APM of 250 or the best ashe play in asia. it's completely short-sighted.Aries_37 wrote:
It's not a great lifestyle but what the videos don't tell you is that between them they probably make over half a million dollars in livestream revenue a year. Their website also gets a ton of traffic and makes them a tidy sum as well.
Practicing at the game and winning tournaments is really just so they can attract more stream viewers. I doubt they really care that they could be having more fun.
they probably do make good money now - and so they should, they're basically plugged into a computer 12 hours a day working 1.5x full-time jobs - but where's their future? celebrities for a bunch of geek losers today, walmart employees tomorrow. i only hope these guys are finding time in between 12 hours of practice per/day to get a degree and actual work experience. because, if the fps scene was anything to go by, this whole 'e-sports renaissance' will just be another hype-bubble inflated by the big hardware/computer companies for a quick buck. and they'll be dropped on their ass.
I didn't say I'd find it fun either. I just think they're doing well for themselves and make too much money to care what people think of them.Uzique wrote:
you have a perverse idea of what a 'fun time' is for your 18-25 is all i can say. i'd rather live a normal 9-5 life than have to play videogames for 12 hours a day. the money is nice and all but what a stigma.
He look's like a heroine addict.Aries_37 wrote:
