I paid my college almost entirely off World of Warcraft. Both in game playing and also being a ghostwriter for "lore blogs" to slap their name on. And I didn't even set out to do so, I just played enough that I got good enough (and read enough) to be able to get paid for my performances.
Unfortunately Streaming and Twitch killed that entire market. No one wants to pay for a run from a random in a "top 25" guild when they could be ON STREAM with their favorite eceleb or WF guild.
Unfortunately for both those games the ones hired were basically done so through the Peter Principle, or whatever the name is.
Ion was hired for his raid knowledge, so of course got put in charge of non raid stuff. Same with Stellaris with the weasel they put in charge of that who outright lied about the AI getting buffs even after players were able to prove it.
I paid my college almost entirely off World of Warcraft. Both in game playing and also being a ghostwriter for "lore blogs" to slap their name on. And I didn't even set out to do so, I just played enough that I got good enough (and read enough) to be able to get paid for my performances.
Unfortunately Streaming and Twitch killed that entire market. No one wants to pay for a run from a random in a "top 25" guild when they could be ON STREAM with their favorite eceleb or WF guild.
Speaking of WoW, Blizz has literally hired players and put them in very important positions like with Ion.
Stellaris has done the same.
This comic is literal boomer tier ignorance but then everyone here knows this.
Unfortunately for both those games the ones hired were basically done so through the Peter Principle, or whatever the name is.
Ion was hired for his raid knowledge, so of course got put in charge of non raid stuff. Same with Stellaris with the weasel they put in charge of that who outright lied about the AI getting buffs even after players were able to prove it.