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OutlaW-

Czech Republic5053 Posts

September 18 2011 23:54 GMT

#21

i respect u and what u do but please do not spell a progamer that way

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United States6531 Posts

September 18 2011 23:56 GMT

#22

Shut up and get back to work on Blood and Metal.

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Itsmedudeman

United States19229 Posts

September 19 2011 00:17 GMT

#23

If you wanna be a pro gamer you better straight up love playing 8 hours a day and be okay with barely scraping by. Seriously, there's very few players who can actually make a good living off the game, and even then the job security is so low. Who knows where your skill level will be in a year or two and what type of money you'll be making to support yourself. What are you going to do when you're 30, 40, 50? Sure some people can become coaches, but the majority are going to be out of the job if you can't play.

It's just too big of a risk right now to devote full time. Even the best players in code S right now who have seemingly "made it" as a progamer are taking a risk in the long run. Just look what happened to fruitdealer. He'll never get another sponsor, salary, or even prize money for the rest of his career most likely.

TheHova

United Kingdom2612 Posts

September 19 2011 00:24 GMT

#24

Nah dude, you've got it all wrong. They have an unfound potential and if they 'just tried' they just know they could become pro :p.

But i agree with your post overall, and i think if you really do want to have the aspirations of becoming a pro like certain people do. You should spend less time talking about it on the forum and more time doing it in game.

SpoR

United States1542 Posts

September 19 2011 04:09 GMT

#25

To further your overall point, incontrol isn't even actually a pro (in the korean sense of the word). Most of his success in starcraft/esports has been due to filling the niches around pro gaming and esports. Training people, being on some reality show, running a team and a league, being a well known opinion on shows and the like.
True pro gamers don't even have time to love the game like this. They have to spend all their waking moments just playing the game and trying to improve.

Zariel

Australia1285 Posts

September 19 2011 06:07 GMT

#26

Just be good enough to own your friends.

OpticalShot

Canada6330 Posts

September 19 2011 15:23 GMT

#27

Thank you for posting this, I was feeling the same - those people asking whether they should go pro or not (most of them already with their mind set on trying anyway regardless of advices) seemed like they didn't do their research.

I'd like to add that to become a "pro," you also have to prove that you can play well on stage. How many fables about "practice bonjwa" have we heard from the Korean SCBW scene? For example, Jaehoon was forever known to be amazing in MBC in-house tournaments, but we all know how "good" he was on stage (well, to his credit, he stepped it up in 2010-2011 season). Being "masters" or "grandmasters" on the NA server (or even KR server, for that matter) doesn't mean squat if you can't handle the pressure of playing on stage. Online rankings don't net you the money, winning on live televised matches do. Not being able to handle the pressure, good players that can't perform on stage will forever be practice partners - you know, the people that earn pennies plus their meals and stay.

I'll believe it when someone here who's blogged a "Going Pro" actually wins something significant and blogs about it.