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NexCa
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Germany954 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-14 02:00:29
August 14 2012 01:50 GMT
#101
I will be really really... And I mean REALLY sad if he don't tries atleast one time the GSL, I really think he deserves that spot !
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lannisport
Profile Joined February 2012
878 Posts
August 14 2012 02:00 GMT
#102
On August 14 2012 10:38 opterown wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2012 10:34 Pokebunny wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:29 Reborn8u wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:15 Exigaet wrote:
How does Stephano not know how much money he has made from winnings..

[image loading]


It is possible that he hasn't received some yet, I've heard it is a common problem. Also, he may mean it's 120 after taxes? Either way, at his age having the cash to buy a nice home outright is awesome. He could buy a house and work part time the rest of his life and live comfortably.

I'm not sure about buy a house and work part time and live comfortably lol. You can't simply work part time the rest of your life if you have 50k in the bank. Especially considering it's significantly less in Euros than dollars.

yeah lol this is not nearly enough to buy a house/work part time, you'd need upwards of 1 mill for that


Stephano routinely draws in 10k viewers on his stream and usually plays for 4-5 hours. That and his salary should be netting him over 200k+. If he didn't put that in a bank and instead hired a broker to build a large and diverse investment portfolio he COULD actually live off that while still growing his wealth (Comfortably retiring in his mid twenties). He'll stay in progaming for at least one more year and make a lot more money. Of course, he's a 19 year old with a six figure income and I doubt he'd carefully plan for his financial future like this.
epicdemic
Profile Joined October 2011
Netherlands137 Posts
August 14 2012 02:51 GMT
#103
On August 14 2012 03:32 Lokerek wrote:
Interesting. While not too long, it will be interesting to see results in the upcoming MLG.
Wonder if his opinion on Inori is honest since a lot of people call him cheesy to say the least


Inori practiced with Stephano while Stephano was streaming. All of the games were long macro games and not cheesy at all.
FataLe
Profile Joined November 2010
New Zealand4543 Posts
August 14 2012 03:11 GMT
#104
On August 14 2012 11:00 lannisport wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2012 10:38 opterown wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:34 Pokebunny wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:29 Reborn8u wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:15 Exigaet wrote:
How does Stephano not know how much money he has made from winnings..

[image loading]


It is possible that he hasn't received some yet, I've heard it is a common problem. Also, he may mean it's 120 after taxes? Either way, at his age having the cash to buy a nice home outright is awesome. He could buy a house and work part time the rest of his life and live comfortably.

I'm not sure about buy a house and work part time and live comfortably lol. You can't simply work part time the rest of your life if you have 50k in the bank. Especially considering it's significantly less in Euros than dollars.

yeah lol this is not nearly enough to buy a house/work part time, you'd need upwards of 1 mill for that


Stephano routinely draws in 10k viewers on his stream and usually plays for 4-5 hours. That and his salary should be netting him over 200k+. If he didn't put that in a bank and instead hired a broker to build a large and diverse investment portfolio he COULD actually live off that while still growing his wealth (Comfortably retiring in his mid twenties). He'll stay in progaming for at least one more year and make a lot more money. Of course, he's a 19 year old with a six figure income and I doubt he'd carefully plan for his financial future like this.

if you think millenium could afford 200k in salary a year for steph ur caraaaazy.

the only team i think could afford that would be EG, but even i don't think they'd pay that much.
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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26860 Posts
August 14 2012 03:48 GMT
#105
On August 14 2012 11:51 epicdemic wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2012 03:32 Lokerek wrote:
Interesting. While not too long, it will be interesting to see results in the upcoming MLG.
Wonder if his opinion on Inori is honest since a lot of people call him cheesy to say the least


Inori practiced with Stephano while Stephano was streaming. All of the games were long macro games and not cheesy at all.

People like Idra insult Inori because they don't like his approach the game, but the guy's a pretty good player. Much improved actually from the days he was really just PvP sniper
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Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia54784 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-14 03:54:23
August 14 2012 03:52 GMT
#106
On August 14 2012 12:11 FataLe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2012 11:00 lannisport wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:38 opterown wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:34 Pokebunny wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:29 Reborn8u wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:15 Exigaet wrote:
How does Stephano not know how much money he has made from winnings..

&#91;image loading&#93;


It is possible that he hasn't received some yet, I've heard it is a common problem. Also, he may mean it's 120 after taxes? Either way, at his age having the cash to buy a nice home outright is awesome. He could buy a house and work part time the rest of his life and live comfortably.

I'm not sure about buy a house and work part time and live comfortably lol. You can't simply work part time the rest of your life if you have 50k in the bank. Especially considering it's significantly less in Euros than dollars.

yeah lol this is not nearly enough to buy a house/work part time, you'd need upwards of 1 mill for that


Stephano routinely draws in 10k viewers on his stream and usually plays for 4-5 hours. That and his salary should be netting him over 200k+. If he didn't put that in a bank and instead hired a broker to build a large and diverse investment portfolio he COULD actually live off that while still growing his wealth (Comfortably retiring in his mid twenties). He'll stay in progaming for at least one more year and make a lot more money. Of course, he's a 19 year old with a six figure income and I doubt he'd carefully plan for his financial future like this.

if you think millenium could afford 200k in salary a year for steph ur caraaaazy.

the only team i think could afford that would be EG, but even i don't think they'd pay that much.

200k is more than jaedong salary when he was the top zerg haha
On August 14 2012 11:00 lannisport wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2012 10:38 opterown wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:34 Pokebunny wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:29 Reborn8u wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:15 Exigaet wrote:
How does Stephano not know how much money he has made from winnings..

&#91;image loading&#93;


It is possible that he hasn't received some yet, I've heard it is a common problem. Also, he may mean it's 120 after taxes? Either way, at his age having the cash to buy a nice home outright is awesome. He could buy a house and work part time the rest of his life and live comfortably.

I'm not sure about buy a house and work part time and live comfortably lol. You can't simply work part time the rest of your life if you have 50k in the bank. Especially considering it's significantly less in Euros than dollars.

yeah lol this is not nearly enough to buy a house/work part time, you'd need upwards of 1 mill for that


Stephano routinely draws in 10k viewers on his stream and usually plays for 4-5 hours. That and his salary should be netting him over 200k+. If he didn't put that in a bank and instead hired a broker to build a large and diverse investment portfolio he COULD actually live off that while still growing his wealth (Comfortably retiring in his mid twenties). He'll stay in progaming for at least one more year and make a lot more money. Of course, he's a 19 year old with a six figure income and I doubt he'd carefully plan for his financial future like this.

he doesn't stream thattt often, and cpm lately is not so good, so i doubt he has made 200k+ (esp with taxes and winnings not being paid, etc). you can't do very much with ~150k, and the interest you get on 150k worth of investment is not enough to retire on haha.
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Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Singapore15360 Posts
August 14 2012 09:03 GMT
#107
On August 14 2012 12:11 FataLe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2012 11:00 lannisport wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:38 opterown wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:34 Pokebunny wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:29 Reborn8u wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:15 Exigaet wrote:
How does Stephano not know how much money he has made from winnings..

[image loading]


It is possible that he hasn't received some yet, I've heard it is a common problem. Also, he may mean it's 120 after taxes? Either way, at his age having the cash to buy a nice home outright is awesome. He could buy a house and work part time the rest of his life and live comfortably.

I'm not sure about buy a house and work part time and live comfortably lol. You can't simply work part time the rest of your life if you have 50k in the bank. Especially considering it's significantly less in Euros than dollars.

yeah lol this is not nearly enough to buy a house/work part time, you'd need upwards of 1 mill for that


Stephano routinely draws in 10k viewers on his stream and usually plays for 4-5 hours. That and his salary should be netting him over 200k+. If he didn't put that in a bank and instead hired a broker to build a large and diverse investment portfolio he COULD actually live off that while still growing his wealth (Comfortably retiring in his mid twenties). He'll stay in progaming for at least one more year and make a lot more money. Of course, he's a 19 year old with a six figure income and I doubt he'd carefully plan for his financial future like this.

if you think millenium could afford 200k in salary a year for steph ur caraaaazy.

the only team i think could afford that would be EG, but even i don't think they'd pay that much.


he meant 200k+ from prizemoney, stream revenue and salary combined

still doubt it's that high though
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revel8
Profile Joined January 2012
United Kingdom3022 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-14 11:01:22
August 14 2012 10:49 GMT
#108
On August 14 2012 12:52 opterown wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2012 12:11 FataLe wrote:
On August 14 2012 11:00 lannisport wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:38 opterown wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:34 Pokebunny wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:29 Reborn8u wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:15 Exigaet wrote:
How does Stephano not know how much money he has made from winnings..

[image loading]


It is possible that he hasn't received some yet, I've heard it is a common problem. Also, he may mean it's 120 after taxes? Either way, at his age having the cash to buy a nice home outright is awesome. He could buy a house and work part time the rest of his life and live comfortably.

I'm not sure about buy a house and work part time and live comfortably lol. You can't simply work part time the rest of your life if you have 50k in the bank. Especially considering it's significantly less in Euros than dollars.

yeah lol this is not nearly enough to buy a house/work part time, you'd need upwards of 1 mill for that


Stephano routinely draws in 10k viewers on his stream and usually plays for 4-5 hours. That and his salary should be netting him over 200k+. If he didn't put that in a bank and instead hired a broker to build a large and diverse investment portfolio he COULD actually live off that while still growing his wealth (Comfortably retiring in his mid twenties). He'll stay in progaming for at least one more year and make a lot more money. Of course, he's a 19 year old with a six figure income and I doubt he'd carefully plan for his financial future like this.

if you think millenium could afford 200k in salary a year for steph ur caraaaazy.

the only team i think could afford that would be EG, but even i don't think they'd pay that much.

200k is more than jaedong salary when he was the top zerg haha
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2012 11:00 lannisport wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:38 opterown wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:34 Pokebunny wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:29 Reborn8u wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:15 Exigaet wrote:
How does Stephano not know how much money he has made from winnings..

[image loading]


It is possible that he hasn't received some yet, I've heard it is a common problem. Also, he may mean it's 120 after taxes? Either way, at his age having the cash to buy a nice home outright is awesome. He could buy a house and work part time the rest of his life and live comfortably.

I'm not sure about buy a house and work part time and live comfortably lol. You can't simply work part time the rest of your life if you have 50k in the bank. Especially considering it's significantly less in Euros than dollars.

yeah lol this is not nearly enough to buy a house/work part time, you'd need upwards of 1 mill for that


Stephano routinely draws in 10k viewers on his stream and usually plays for 4-5 hours. That and his salary should be netting him over 200k+. If he didn't put that in a bank and instead hired a broker to build a large and diverse investment portfolio he COULD actually live off that while still growing his wealth (Comfortably retiring in his mid twenties). He'll stay in progaming for at least one more year and make a lot more money. Of course, he's a 19 year old with a six figure income and I doubt he'd carefully plan for his financial future like this.

he doesn't stream thattt often, and cpm lately is not so good, so i doubt he has made 200k+ (esp with taxes and winnings not being paid, etc). you can't do very much with ~150k, and the interest you get on 150k worth of investment is not enough to retire on haha.


Stephano said at DreamHack that he makes about 5K (Euros) in about 2/3 days of streaming. He may have been exaggerating though as the interview was with 2GD and had a lot of joking in it. It does seem his streaming revenue is significant though, not to mention that you can subscribe to his streaming on Twitch too which brings in extra cash.

DJ Wheat and Slasher interviewed him on LO3 the day or so before MLG Summer Arena and afterwards they said Stephano would likely get the largest contract for a Foreigner in SC2. No idea on figures but he will get a big raise regardless of whether he stays with Mill or moves to EG. I think that there also seems to be a lot more money in SC2 compared to a year ago, at least in prize money. If Stephano keeps his consistency of going deep in so many tournaments then his prize money accumulation rate could potentially increase too as the prize money on offer increases.
RoranRock
Profile Joined October 2011
France294 Posts
August 14 2012 11:16 GMT
#109
please to read that stephano feel good in the TSL House
It could be good for millenium when he will choice his next team !
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ThePlayer33
Profile Joined October 2011
Australia2378 Posts
August 14 2012 11:18 GMT
#110
GSL need to triple their prize money and stephano might consider it
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Ryps
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Romania2740 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-14 11:19:15
August 14 2012 11:18 GMT
#111
On August 14 2012 12:11 FataLe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2012 11:00 lannisport wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:38 opterown wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:34 Pokebunny wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:29 Reborn8u wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:15 Exigaet wrote:
How does Stephano not know how much money he has made from winnings..

[image loading]


It is possible that he hasn't received some yet, I've heard it is a common problem. Also, he may mean it's 120 after taxes? Either way, at his age having the cash to buy a nice home outright is awesome. He could buy a house and work part time the rest of his life and live comfortably.

I'm not sure about buy a house and work part time and live comfortably lol. You can't simply work part time the rest of your life if you have 50k in the bank. Especially considering it's significantly less in Euros than dollars.

yeah lol this is not nearly enough to buy a house/work part time, you'd need upwards of 1 mill for that


Stephano routinely draws in 10k viewers on his stream and usually plays for 4-5 hours. That and his salary should be netting him over 200k+. If he didn't put that in a bank and instead hired a broker to build a large and diverse investment portfolio he COULD actually live off that while still growing his wealth (Comfortably retiring in his mid twenties). He'll stay in progaming for at least one more year and make a lot more money. Of course, he's a 19 year old with a six figure income and I doubt he'd carefully plan for his financial future like this.

if you think millenium could afford 200k in salary a year for steph ur caraaaazy.

the only team i think could afford that would be EG, but even i don't think they'd pay that much.

Or would they
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Serimek
Profile Joined August 2011
France2274 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-14 11:52:21
August 14 2012 11:44 GMT
#112
For people wondering if Stephano is popular in France, I'd say that e-sports scene is rather great in France, but far from being mainstream. Let's say it gathers about half a million people*, with a much more smaller hardcore fan core, which is a great figure for an European country (France population : around 66 millions).

On that scene, nearly everyone knows who he is, and most of the people care about him, no matter if they're one of his fans or if they can't stand him :p

So, in short, his French e-sport celebrity is stellar, but he is almost unknown from general public. To be honest, no pro-gamer is well known from general public, aside maybe from ElkY, as a documentary about his Korean career was broadcasted years ago on the first national TV channel, France 2, and even then... (I think it was a part of "Envoyé Special" television program if someone remembers it.)

* Might be a debatable figure, but I'm kinda sure that I'm not very far from truth.
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Faust852
Profile Joined February 2012
Luxembourg4004 Posts
August 14 2012 11:53 GMT
#113
On August 14 2012 12:11 FataLe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2012 11:00 lannisport wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:38 opterown wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:34 Pokebunny wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:29 Reborn8u wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:15 Exigaet wrote:
How does Stephano not know how much money he has made from winnings..

[image loading]


It is possible that he hasn't received some yet, I've heard it is a common problem. Also, he may mean it's 120 after taxes? Either way, at his age having the cash to buy a nice home outright is awesome. He could buy a house and work part time the rest of his life and live comfortably.

I'm not sure about buy a house and work part time and live comfortably lol. You can't simply work part time the rest of your life if you have 50k in the bank. Especially considering it's significantly less in Euros than dollars.

yeah lol this is not nearly enough to buy a house/work part time, you'd need upwards of 1 mill for that


Stephano routinely draws in 10k viewers on his stream and usually plays for 4-5 hours. That and his salary should be netting him over 200k+. If he didn't put that in a bank and instead hired a broker to build a large and diverse investment portfolio he COULD actually live off that while still growing his wealth (Comfortably retiring in his mid twenties). He'll stay in progaming for at least one more year and make a lot more money. Of course, he's a 19 year old with a six figure income and I doubt he'd carefully plan for his financial future like this.

if you think millenium could afford 200k in salary a year for steph ur caraaaazy.

the only team i think could afford that would be EG, but even i don't think they'd pay that much.


You underestimate them a lot. Millenium do have money, they might be the richest european team. ^^
Daniel C
Profile Joined October 2010
Hong Kong1606 Posts
August 14 2012 11:55 GMT
#114
GGGO STEPHANIO!!!!
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RYUZbim
Profile Joined December 2011
France48 Posts
August 14 2012 11:58 GMT
#115
Great interview, Stephano gogo
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10888 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-14 12:45:22
August 14 2012 12:38 GMT
#116
On August 14 2012 11:00 lannisport wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2012 10:38 opterown wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:34 Pokebunny wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:29 Reborn8u wrote:
On August 14 2012 10:15 Exigaet wrote:
How does Stephano not know how much money he has made from winnings..

[image loading]


It is possible that he hasn't received some yet, I've heard it is a common problem. Also, he may mean it's 120 after taxes? Either way, at his age having the cash to buy a nice home outright is awesome. He could buy a house and work part time the rest of his life and live comfortably.

I'm not sure about buy a house and work part time and live comfortably lol. You can't simply work part time the rest of your life if you have 50k in the bank. Especially considering it's significantly less in Euros than dollars.

yeah lol this is not nearly enough to buy a house/work part time, you'd need upwards of 1 mill for that


Stephano routinely draws in 10k viewers on his stream and usually plays for 4-5 hours. That and his salary should be netting him over 200k+. If he didn't put that in a bank and instead hired a broker to build a large and diverse investment portfolio he COULD actually live off that while still growing his wealth (Comfortably retiring in his mid twenties). He'll stay in progaming for at least one more year and make a lot more money. Of course, he's a 19 year old with a six figure income and I doubt he'd carefully plan for his financial future like this.



Living off 200k for the rest of your live, in France (or basically every middle-european country)? Rofl, are you mad or something?

I wouldn't even try it under 2 Millions+... Thats asuming i allready have a house which isn't counted in these 2 Mio..
Zandar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Netherlands1541 Posts
August 14 2012 12:48 GMT
#117
On August 14 2012 03:29 WiljushkA wrote:
that interview sounded like it was an interview of a random korean player and not stephano lol. all those "i will try to do better" and "i will practice harder", and the overall humble tone of the interview are so unlike stephano and so like the usual korean answers. i guess its just the way they do their interviews


Other cultures demand other behavior.
He's THE foreign ambassador right now in Korea. It's good to see how he's able and agreeing to adapt that fast to mix in That's a professional attitude to have.
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Zandar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Netherlands1541 Posts
August 14 2012 12:49 GMT
#118
On August 14 2012 20:44 Serimek wrote:
For people wondering if Stephano is popular in France, I'd say that e-sports scene is rather great in France, but far from being mainstream. Let's say it gathers about half a million people*, with a much more smaller hardcore fan core, which is a great figure for an European country (France population : around 66 millions).

On that scene, nearly everyone knows who he is, and most of the people care about him, no matter if they're one of his fans or if they can't stand him :p

So, in short, his French e-sport celebrity is stellar, but he is almost unknown from general public. To be honest, no pro-gamer is well known from general public, aside maybe from ElkY, as a documentary about his Korean career was broadcasted years ago on the first national TV channel, France 2, and even then... (I think it was a part of "Envoyé Special" television program if someone remembers it.)

* Might be a debatable figure, but I'm kinda sure that I'm not very far from truth.


Same here. Most people don't even know grubby, while when he goes to asia he has hordes of fans following him.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Serimek
Profile Joined August 2011
France2274 Posts
August 14 2012 12:58 GMT
#119
On August 14 2012 21:49 Zandar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2012 20:44 Serimek wrote:
For people wondering if Stephano is popular in France, I'd say that e-sports scene is rather great in France, but far from being mainstream. Let's say it gathers about half a million people*, with a much more smaller hardcore fan core, which is a great figure for an European country (France population : around 66 millions).

On that scene, nearly everyone knows who he is, and most of the people care about him, no matter if they're one of his fans or if they can't stand him :p

So, in short, his French e-sport celebrity is stellar, but he is almost unknown from general public. To be honest, no pro-gamer is well known from general public, aside maybe from ElkY, as a documentary about his Korean career was broadcasted years ago on the first national TV channel, France 2, and even then... (I think it was a part of "Envoyé Special" television program if someone remembers it.)

* Might be a debatable figure, but I'm kinda sure that I'm not very far from truth.


Same here. Most people don't even know grubby, while when he goes to asia he has hordes of fans following him.


Yeah, but Garry Kasparov acknowledge Grubby when he was still the greatest chess player... Who cares about any ^else recognition ?! :p
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aintz
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada5624 Posts
August 14 2012 13:12 GMT
#120
i highly doubt streaming makes as much money as some people think. if thats the case i better just start casting dota2 matches and make some easy bux since so many noobs watch and dont even mind watching bad casters like those featured in tl.
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