How To Make A Living Playing Video Games: Esports, Streaming, And Blogging
If gaming was a viable career years ago I might have tried to make it in that field. I still got time, maybe I will make an attempt, if my skills are good enough to the pay the bills. But for you growing up in this time, the ones who are dominating online or the one who know how to entertain while you play, or even the older crowd who still has the reflexes, there is money to made. Your main option is streaming, unless you are good enough to go pro but there are tools like steemit which can help you bring in more revenue than you think.
Esports:
I am going to be honest, you need to be really good to be pro. I am not in the pro league so you will want to do research to find out more if you are interested. But from what I know, from playing online and watching pro tournaments these people are not messing around. You can get a feel of how good the competition is by playing online and if you can play the top people and still hold your own, maybe it is worth looking into. If you play street fighter 5, look into Evo or the road to evo. League of Legends is big in a lot of places and if you are a StarCraft 2 Pro then move to South Korea :p.
Streaming:
Check out twitch or youtube live streams for examples of streamers. If you want to be successful you will probably have to be on camera, or at least have your audio and be entertaining. This does not mean you have to be a good player, just be able to put on a show. If you can do both, well, then you might have something big. When people stream they usually have a camera on them that displays in the corner of the screen while the rest is the game. Newer games tend to be watched more than older ones and there is always L.O.L. which brings in the crowds. Now the problem is, as twitch and youtube are established sites, it will be hard to build up a viewer base. This is where steemit comes in.
Steemit:
This is where I recommend you start if you want to make money for gaming. It is a social media/blogging site that rewards you for your content and content can be anything. There is a growing gaming community here and I am going to start a community for one when the feature is available. You want to stream? Post about when and what and give us some details about you or the gameplay that is coming up. Same if you have clips, you can upload them here, write a blog post about them and you are good to go. This will help raise your views and could get you some good money as well.
Do you make money from gaming, let me know in the comments.
It seems you forget a major field - analytics.
In many games like Dota and LoL there is much room for command tactics and analysing post-game. You need to be a good player indeed but not nessesary pro-level.
Great post. Would be great to get you involved in the gaming initiative we're developing for @hardfork-series, @whatageek.
how cool.. would it have been if youtube or steemit was around like 15 years ago when I was playing online games for like 12 hours aday because I loved it... now making a living out of it would be a dream come true.... maybe I will look into it again... I am just a lot older now and life has taken me in a different direction.
I would be interested, what are the details? I am going through the @hardfork-series page now.
Great post. Because of Steemit any content is possible income revenue. Even doing stupid things video lol. This platform has a very bright future. So what we are going to do? Hold thy Steem coin bags!
Well i tend to be good at video games
but the most money i make from twitter advertisements
Really? May I ask how that works and how well you do? I am curious.
Welp i deal with CS:GO/PUBG Gambling and i share my affiliate codes on twitter
i make about 5-50$ a month (really depends on the time of the year)
i got 3.3k followers
And i am usually like 60% better than the average in every video game i play
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I am definitely not good enough at gaming to think people would even want to watch me play, but I hope we see more and more people entering the space! Good players are fun to watch!
You don't have to be good, just entertaining. There are funny streamers who did it as well.
I've tried posting a couple of gaming videos before. They can do well. On Steemit, you might find reviewing games and gaming gear to be really worthwhile as well.
I'm going to try to do some Fortnite videos soon actually. It will be interesting to see how they go.
Nice, best of luck :)
Thank you for the idea . I think I will record while im playing PUBG . 😁😁😁😁
It is definitely a lot more viable these days, I have made a bunch through steemit and my cousin is on Youtube with 40k+ subs and making a lot. So you just need to get started and keep at it!
Nice, keep it up
The fun became less when you play for living unless you're really a good player in Esports game like Dota2 and LOL then the fun comes from beating your competitor ..
Although I have great interest in games, I have never thought of sharing this passion on steemit. After reading this post, I am really considering it and I think it will be a positive concept for me.
Thank You for this post.
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