How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online
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How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online
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Re: How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online
#2Interesting read and insight into a subculture I know very little about.
Looks like only a few of them are getting rich, and it isn't without its costs. Working seven days a week as a professional gamer is pretty brutal.
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#3The same applies to pretty much any skill: to be successful, work hard and be very good at what you do. That's the entire article in a nutshell.
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#4Step 1 be a girl. Step 2 break all of Twitch's community guidelines. Step 3 ??? Step 4 Profit.
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#5Step 1 be a girl. Step 2 break all of Twitch's community guidelines. Step 3 ??? Step 4 Profit.
Downvotes are expected, your post lacks tact. But it would be worrying if people ignored the reality of girls being exploited and exploiting themselves online in various gaming circles for financial gain. I don't particularly have a problem with it, but it's not a small thing.
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#6This is very much like sports - very few make it to the top, and it's kind of subsidised by the ones coming up or just idly watching.
Unlike actual sport, the disciplines here change rapidly, in spite of Blizzard's best efforts, World of Warcraft numbers are rapidly dwindling so a WoW start will pretty much have to start from scratch in another game or quit streaming as a career move.
Game developers or even petty missteps can have disastrous consequences for streamers. Game developers can, for example ban streaming altogether, or request takedown with their content selectively.
This is a 'career' but with no major prospects and if one was to put equivalnet amount of time in another field, say learning how deep learning works, the rewards will be far greater on average.
I also think that 'pro' streamers no longer enjoy the games they play for "18 hours a day" and can't afford casual games with the camera turned off. It's a huge 'big brother' in their lives.
Re: How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online
#7The same applies to pretty much any skill: to be successful, work hard and be very good at what you do. That's the entire article in a nutshell.
And be lucky.
Re: How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online
#8Interesting read and insight into a subculture I know very little about. Looks like only a few of them are getting rich, and it isn't without its costs. Working seven days a week as a professional gamer is pretty brutal.
This article doesn't even get into the really big earners. 7 figures is not a one person bracket on twitch.
> Working seven days a week as a professional gamer is pretty brutal
Yep. You can see the burnout on people after a while.
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#9What I think is crazy is that this industry exists at the scale it does. It has replaced reality TV for a segment of the world population. There are legions of people that watch these streams, just to watch someone doing something that they could do themselves (but maybe not win as much). This isn't like F1 racing where I'll never be able to afford a racecar, or football where I don't want to exercise. Most of the kids watching these streams own a decent computer and can play.
I suppose it's just not for me. I watch video game reviews to see if something is worth buying, but not more than a few minutes of gameplay. Plus the other things that streaming groups/houses do aren't appealing to me.
Have I gotten old? Is this why grey haired CEOs often miss great business opportunities? They just don't "get it?"
Re: How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online
#10Step 1 be a girl. Step 2 break all of Twitch's community guidelines. Step 3 ??? Step 4 Profit.
Downvotes are expected, your post lacks tact. But it would be worrying if people ignored the reality of girls being exploited and exploiting themselves online in various gaming circles for financial gain. I don't particularly have a problem with it, but it's not a small thing.
There's also the problem where girls are heavily targeted for harassment still in the streaming community. I'm under the impression it's slowly improving, but there was a well known twitch user who was a serial SWATer (calling the police and telling them a multiple homicide is occurring / hostages have been taken so that a SWAT team shows up to the streamer's home) on any female twitch streamer who wouldn't chat with him / pretend to be his friend. Law enforcement has been mostly toothless, although in this case, a sympathetic local officer committed hundreds of work hours catching the guy and getting him prosecuted.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/the-serial-swatt...