i did UT2004 for about 2.5 years and i was playing 60-80 hours a week on top of going to school. i think i made about $1200 total across the whole time? i mostly got paid in CPU components. and i had to fly myself to the LANs. so really it's more like i broke even.
thresh and Fatal1ty got rich, not from playing games, but from selling the idea that you could get rich playing games. aside from that there is basically no money (in FPS anyway, which is the only area i know about). seems like that's the very definition of a bubble. eventually they'll run out of greater fools.
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i did UT2004 for about 2.5 years and i was playing 60-80 hours a week on top of going to school. i think i made about $1200 total across the whole time? i mostly got paid in CPU components. and i had to fly myself to the LANs. so really it's more like i broke even.
thresh and Fatal1ty got rich, not from playing games, but from selling the idea that you could get rich playing games. aside from that there is basically no money (in FPS anyway, which is the only area i know about). seems like that's the very definition of a bubble. eventually they'll run out of greater fools.