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Originally Posted by Ethan_Kaizer  There's way more than that. |
You think so? Obviously Fatal1ty used to make a living off of it... and now he makes it from the market, not from doing it by himself.
Other than that... I don't think coL CS team makes a living off of it.
This is the 2007 CSS Money List:
GotFrag eSports - Counter-Strike Source News Story - CS:Source 2007 Money List
Don't forget that some of the money is given to the organization, and then split 5 ways between the players.
We can consider CGS players making a living off of it, although they weren't making THAT much. But now that CGS is dead, it's hard to measure it because the statistics from the past 2 years for CSS and CS 1.6 are ruined.
There may be some people who make a living off of Starcraft and Wc3, but they sure as **** aren't Americans:
GotFrag eSports - Warcraft 3 News Story - The Warcraft III Prize Money List 2007
As this is the first year for WoW where people have a chance to make a significant amount of money, there aren't any figures that I can find yet, but I don't think MLG is dishing out enough cash to be split by 3 players and a sponsor to make many of them over like $20k.
I can't think of any other games where people are making a lot of money playing competitively.
Here's the 1.6 Money list from 2007, but it doesn't mean much since most of the good Americans were playing Source in CGS:
GotFrag eSports - Counter-Strike News Story - The 2007 Counter-Strike Prize Money List
Still, no Americans making that much.