I don't understand this thread at all. SC BW players have been paid salary for years, and even someone who has posted in this thread is paying SC2 players a salary already. [FXOpen, page 1]

DivineSC

United States128 Posts

March 14 2011 10:26 GMT

#143

I thought several Foreign teams payed their players, like Liquid? Maybe it's the sponsors that do so?

Jetaap

France4814 Posts

March 14 2011 10:37 GMT

#144

The good news is that the sponsors are happy enough to increase their involvement in SC2 , hope it will help other teams to find sponsors and get sc2 progammers a decent standard of living.

D.Devil

Germany227 Posts

March 14 2011 11:04 GMT

#145

On March 14 2011 19:26 DivineSC wrote:
I thought several Foreign teams payed their players, like Liquid? Maybe it's the sponsors that do so?

There are dozens of teams that pay their players, this headline relates to South Korea only.

Broodwich

United States393 Posts

March 14 2011 11:56 GMT

#146

$30,000 and free housing, free food, free computer setups, and probably a fair amount of free team clothes. Plus a fair amount of their day to day annoyances (cleaning, laundry, etc.) are probably taken care of. That's a good deal, especially considering that the S-class players get the monthly GOM stipend and the shot at the GOM prize money for performing well in S-class.

I guess this means before this the Liquid guys were probably the only pros in Korea getting a salary (except for the random foreigners in the GOM house on teams). Says a lot about the high level of support TLAF provides for Team Liquid and the foreigner scene.

hmunkey

United Kingdom1973 Posts

March 14 2011 12:03 GMT

#147

On March 14 2011 18:10 thesideshow wrote:

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Except most of us would put the hours in for no money at all.

True, but their practice regimen is nothing like any of our play schedules are. We play the game to derive entertainment; they don't. Plus, team house living conditions aren't exactly the greatest so when it's all said and done, I still don't think top pro-gamers are compensated that well. Yes, there's the occasional outlier like Fruitdealer, but the vast majority of players can't win tournaments like that.

Marou

Germany1371 Posts

March 14 2011 12:05 GMT

#148

On March 14 2011 15:16 L3g3nd_ wrote:
wow this is awesome! i think moman gets a salary? he said in his NASL vod application that he lives off sc2

Yes he gets a salary and can play SC2 all day but on the other hand he has to stay at the PCBang sponsoring him and work here so he might have to pause his ladder games here and then to deliver a ticket to a highschooler missing school in order to play WOW all day long ^^

Bobster

Germany3075 Posts

March 14 2011 12:07 GMT

#149

On March 14 2011 14:55 FXOpen wrote:
I've been paying my players a salary since December..... Gotta love media

MyM and Cyber Nation as well.

TSL is definitely not the first team, but they might have the highest salaries.

oopsPD

Korea (South)4 Posts

March 14 2011 12:18 GMT

#150

from TSL official web site
http://sc2tsl.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=61&wr_id=1978

mprs

Canada2933 Posts

March 14 2011 12:21 GMT

#151

On March 14 2011 18:40 HeIios wrote:

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...and still oGs outperforms TSL. :D

They are tied for 1 champion each

Klamity

United States994 Posts

March 14 2011 12:26 GMT

#152

I'm sure they're not the first SC2 team to pay salary to their players, but I'd be shocked if any of the other teams paid their players nearly as much.

da_head

Canada3350 Posts

March 14 2011 12:35 GMT

#153

On March 14 2011 14:45 aike wrote:

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But considering it's like a 80+ hour a week job... is it really worth it?

And yea I do believe a lot of the major foreigner teams pay salaries.

iirc the average salery of starcraft players is higher than the average of a korean citizen (though this is probably referring to starcraft 1). so i'd say it's not too shabby/

Tomken

Norway1144 Posts

March 14 2011 12:40 GMT

#154

Didn't many people said that sc2 teams already did get salaries..?

KaveX

Germany59 Posts

March 14 2011 12:41 GMT

#155

On March 14 2011 21:07 Bobster wrote:

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MyM and Cyber Nation as well.

I'm puzzled how little people on TeamLiquid actually know about esports. First, all the hype about the NASL as if it was something revolutionary for the development of esports, nowyou guys seem to think that Western pro-gamers don't get paid by their clans. I assume that it's because of most users' SC1 background where the foreign scene wasn't professional.

Anyway: Many players get salaries (probably, there are more paid SC2 players in Europe than in the US, because Europe has more sponsored clans). All the succesful teams pay their players, without exception (I'm only unsure about teams like ROOT). Liquid, mouz, MYM, Alternate, Dignitas, fnatic, Millenium, Praetoriani, ESC, RoX, virus, aAa, Empire, and many more. It's usually only a few hundred dollars a month, though.

HudsonK

China172 Posts

March 14 2011 12:43 GMT

#156

eh... salary is pretty low for the lower tier players if the 2nd's pay is already down to 27k :/

kidleader

Korea (South)233 Posts

March 14 2011 12:45 GMT

#157

A lot of negative nancies up in this here thread. It's plenty of money for a single person (more than I earn as a graduate) and they are playing games professionally.

flodeskum

Iceland1267 Posts

March 14 2011 12:46 GMT

#158

On March 14 2011 19:23 Buddhist wrote:
I don't understand this thread at all. SC BW players have been paid salary for years, and even someone who has posted in this thread is paying SC2 players a salary already. [FXOpen, page 1]

Presumably it should have said that TSL is the first korean team to play SC2 players salaries.

D.Devil

Germany227 Posts

March 14 2011 12:54 GMT

#159

By the way, I just realized it's definitely not true that TSL is the first Korean team with salaried players either. WeMade FOX pays quite a lot of money to Moon and Lyn. Moon used to earn about 11000$ a month, and his salary might have went down by now, but it's probably still more than FruitDealer earns.

brentsen

1252 Posts

March 14 2011 12:57 GMT

#160

On March 14 2011 21:40 Tomken wrote:
Didn't many people said that sc2 teams already did get salaries..?

I don't know for sure but I think most teams give their players some money but maybe not in the form of salary. Also living in the team house basically for free can be considered salary.