Top 5 Reasons Why you Aren’t a Pro-Gamer
Its cross our minds at least once in our video game filled lives… fuck everything and become a PRO-GAMER. I know its cross my mind once or twice. But why haven’t we made the jump? Why aren’t we pro gamers and living it up? Here are the top 5 reasons why YOU aren’t a Pro-Gamer
#5. Lack of Dedication
The first step to become a professional gamer is putting in the time. You not only have to practice you ass off but you need to actually study every aspect of your game. For example in Halo 3, you need to learn every map and every little trick before you can even compete with the best. After that you need to join tournaments and build a name for yourself. Most games also involve team based combat like Counter Strike or Halo 3. This involves you find other teammates and actually practicing with your team. All of these steps require a lot of time and dedication that most of us don’t have.
For more info go here:
http://www.mlgpro.com/content/page/109808/How-to-Become-a-Professional-Gamer
#4 Relationships
It’s hard to find those special people who understand gaming and accept that you love it. I’m pretty lucky I’ve managed to find someone who thinks Solid Snake is hot…(gross). Even your parents won’t understand why you play Counter Strike til 2 in the morning. Spending so much time practicing and honing your skills will have negative effects on your social life. If you are a guy considering becoming a pro-gamer you need to watch this video…
LOL @ “Uber-Micro” & Noob
3. STRESS
Pwning Noobs is not an easy job. You need to have zero margin of error and the hand eye coordination of a demi-god. But above all else you need to be able to kickass under huge amounts of stress. Those who can keep a calm head and remain focused usually do well in online competitions. Here is an example of a pro gamer who can’t handle the “pressure”
We all know WoW is one of the most competitive games out there but this kid is just ridiculous.
Look at what playing WoW professionally has done to this poor nerd. Nerd Rage at its finest.
2. Money
While you are busy practicing for the next competition, who’s paying the bills? Most of us can’t afford to play games all day. From cell phone bills, rent, utilities, internet, FOOD…. bills suck ass. A lot of people think all pro-gamers make a lot of money, but only a handful of gamers make it to or past $100,000. Money is pretty tight these days so here is an article I found that can save you $12,000 a year!
http://meta-dad.com/2007/09/11/10-biggest-daily-expenses/
1. Skills
The number one reason why you aren’t a pro-gamer is because you just don’t have the skills. Your lack of skills might be due to some of the reasons listed above but the bottom line is: People are just better than you at video games. It could be that they have better hand eye coordination or they just have better 3D spatial recognition, reflexes, intuition… Who knows! The fact of the matter is, pro-gamers have skills that we do not posses.
Let’s take the street fighter series as an example.
Sure you can throw a hadoken and pull off a crazy fierce upper cut, then shoryuken. But can you anticipate Chun Li’s ultra combo, counter it with god like reflexes and then do your own ultra combo? I think not. Check out this godlike video of 2 Pro-gamers in Street Fighter 3. Speechless.
Oh, I definitely have the skills to be a pro-gamer. If I spent 16 hours a day playing one video game with the sole intentions to ‘pwn’ everyone, I’d be the best at it.
Honestly, though, I don’t want to waste my time playing video games. I’d have no character development, no growth and I’d basically be a pretty useless person in the world, except to whatever clan I belonged too.
I sort of want to make a difference in the world, in my own little way if that makes sense. Being a pro-gamer doesn’t cut it for me.
And I’ve totally been in the position of playing a game 24/7. It was Neopets, MapleStory, Socom FTB — I finally found a balance in my life and stopped playing. I wasted all those years playing such pointless games nonstop, and it didn’t get me anywhere in life.
Not saying that you shouldn’t play video games — like I said, there’s a balance.
I agree with you, a balance is definitely needed.
There was a point in my life where I used to play WoW 24/7 and not do anything else. lol MapleStory is pretty addictive as well, I couldn’t handle the cuteness of it though.
i dont think i could do that too much work really, i belive i have skills but not for pro gaming maybe just owning regular gamers i dont know
that last video got me speechless, that is why i dislike fighting games i perfer RTS
you should have somekind of gaming tournament or something
@kcrenots
How SICK was that last video?? crazy…. I was actually thinking of having a SF4 tournament in the near future do you play??
sounds good but unfortunately i dont own the game, i dont have many fighting games because i suck at fighting games im what you call a button masher but if you do i would go and rent it
cool, I’ll definitely let you know if we have a tournament or something, probably not for a while though.
I toyed with the prospects of becoming a professional gamer. I was playing 16+ hours per day of CoD 4 so I convinced some friends of mine to enter a local tournament. We practiced day in and out for over a month before the tournament came. When we played in the tournament we were easily the best and won the whole thing with ease, but we only won $1000 split 4 ways. So basically me and my friends worked hundreds of hours to get $250. After that I looked into other tournaments but they are spread far apart and their are very few. Also, the people playing at the national and international level are going to be the best of the best, so your odds of winning are slim to none. Plus very few teams can consistantly win the top prize so you are bound to lose more money by traveling than you stand to gain.
If I had a ton of money I would pursue professional gaming not as a career but as a hobby, because it is damn fun. For now i’ll stick to passive gaming and keep my day job.
@matt
the level of skills is pretty damn high.
thats exactly the reasoning I had for not trying either. a couple years back a few friends of mine join starcraft and counter strike tournaments. we got eliminated pretty eliminated pretty early
Ok I have a question, can you be a pro gamer @ any game or just certain games?
@RCA, only certain games. No1 cares if you are the best in Super Mario RPG.
check out MLG.com for a full list.
You’re all a bunch of pathetic nerds, using words like pwn, noob,saying that the street fighter video left you speechless, they are just video games you know. They are meant to be something fun, not this big competition, or something to throw any chance of a real life away on. And the dumb thing is you nerds care about things like relationships, what society thinks of you, showing off, the bible (this applies to so-called aetheists as well). The worst part is you know I’m right, you know will use your gay words like trolling, but you are all slaves, sheep, and imbeciles.
^^^ fuck you troll