The word “esports” has been popularized during the last decade, which essentially mean playing games competitively for prizes with organizations supporting the players with contracts and salary.

It has been an eye-opening decade for gaming community which was once considered as waste of time and money by many people. Nowadays, if you are good at it, you can make money by playing games.

However, it is not as easy as it sounds to become an esports player. You have to play at least eight to twelve hours a day and you have to be at your very best both physically and mentally. Esports player these days started their career at a very young age of 15 to 16 where their mind and body work best to impress fellow gamers and scouts from organization to notice and sign them.

Even when you are signed by an organization, the salary itself is not much impressive to spend half of your day playing games. The ultimate goal of any sport player is to win. In esports, winning competition is the best way to earn. In Esports World Cup 2024, the total prize pools of famous games like Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, and League of Legends are at least one million dollars where Dota 2 alone has a total prize pool of five million dollars. That was just one tournament in a calendar year.

Since winning tournaments is the best way to make more money, players have to be competing non-stop tournaments, qualifiers, and for local events they even need to travel all over the world. This kind of schedule can sometimes be too much for a player to handle which could result in decline performances, mentally burnout, and finally losing the job.

As streaming becomes more and more popular with live streaming medias like Twitch and YouTube, so many pro players choose to stream when they are retired to keep earning by playing their favorite games. Even some of the active players stream time to time during their daily gaming session.