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Let’s face it, not many of us have the mad skills to earn the vaulted World of Warcraft PvP rating of 3,000. Only a few of groups have done it so far. Of the subset of players that vie for those honors, some are professionals. That means cheap wow gold they get paid to play. Typically, they only get paid when they win; very few receive a salary. In a world where athletes like Tiger Woods makes $22+ million a year (plus endorsements of well over $100 million), can we earn enough playing video games like WoW to put food on the table? Well maybe, depending on your tastes.
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When most American sports started out as club sports (i.e. football, baseball,cheap wow gold, basketball, etc.) the players earned very little. The pay was subsistence living where the players earned enough to live, and the reward was playing a game they loved instead of getting a real job. This is where video game pros are currently residing. Mainstream games such as Halo provide Tom “Tsquared” Taylor with over $100,000 dollars a year. There is money to be made, but even the PvP stars of WoW at the pinnacle of the sport can’t make six figures on winnings alone.
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In the hopes of making some realistic assumptions (and thus making an ass of ourselves), I am going to assume that a top rated PvP team can pull in two regional tournament wins ($8,000 each), one national win ($25,000) and a couple of lesser tournament victories ($2,cheap wow gold,500 each) to bring the total earnings of a 3v3 team to a whopping $48,500, or $16,167 per player in winnings. I think this is aggressive, but we’re talking about the best of the best, right? Add a salary to the winnings of $2,000 a month and we end up with $40,166 per player per year. This is not Park Avenue condo type money, but it isn’t bad for a side business.
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