Posted May 17, 200421 yr This is an article I found in a magazine. In the United States, we pay to play our PC games. In Korea, some of the country's largest corporations pay the best gamers to play...full time. Telco KTF South Korea sponsors a professional gaming team of 10 ace players, some of whom make more than $100,000 per year. The top "pro" gamers in Korea get up to $200,000 per year and become national celebrities. At this year's World Cybergames in Seoul, similiar "pro" teams from Germany and China actually bested the Koreans in the medal count. There are more than one thousand "pro" gamers in Korea who are scouted in the country's ubiquitous gaming parlors and signed by sponsoring corporations. But all this isn't as fun as it may sound; these high-profile players suffer tremendous pressure to beat all comers, pro and amateur, lest they lose their ranking. They practice more than 12 hours a day, live together in cramped barracks, and compete on super-sized screens in large public settings with color commentary. Talk about taking the fun out of gaming. We wonder if these guys get carpal tunnel insurance.
May 17, 200421 yr Wow.. That's crazy.. the 200000 sounds good... as for the crazy pressure and stuff.. geeze... What I'm trying to say is.. WE NEED TO RECRUIT ONE FOR OUR CAL DC TEAM!!
May 17, 200421 yr pfff, sounds cool, but I think Id rather keep the fun in gaming. My friend and his brother, sister, and another friend are all signed with the MLG for Halo tourneys. From what it sounds like from him, our gaming leagues are a lot more fun and less stressful.
May 18, 200421 yr Well, can you imagine what a North American "hero" PC gamer would look like? He'd be like 30 years old living in his mom's basement, 300 lbs and wearing a stained white undershirt.Sponsor: Uhh....ok back to the basement, no $200,000 for you
May 18, 200421 yr If I was in this professional gaming I would be like the William Hung of gaming. Klink Out!
May 18, 200421 yr nobody remembers that guy i think name was Thrasher(or something like that) who dominated the fps national tourneys back when quake was huge?EDIT: went and googled him (Thresh) Dennis Wong dominated q1 & 2 but he is now not even very active in online games
May 18, 200421 yr LOL. I remember that guy but I meant I'd be brutal like William Hung the singer from American Idol. She Bang She Bang.Klink Out!
May 18, 200421 yr thats cool!!! 2000000 WOW....i wanna go there!! damn i wished when i was in Hong Kong things like this happened...
May 18, 200421 yr if i would get a chance i would never work this job is like you have no life at all then
May 18, 200421 yr 12 hours in day... and other 4 you are doing something else and remaining 10-8 huors you sleep... i dont get how someone can live like that
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