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Dude gets paid almost 500k US for playing Warcraft III

If you're really into playing games and you're good at it, move to Korea?

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After spending three years in Meet Your Makers, which let go of their Warcraft III and Starcraft squads in January due to “strategy concern”, Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang, one of the most illustrious players - if not the most - penned a three-year contract with WeMade FOX that worth 700,000,000 won, approximately 473,037 USD based on exchange rate today.

Moon relished the chance to play for a home-ground team, and is keen to bring more trophies in the future. He said in the press conference earlier today, "I am honored to play for a Korea professional gaming team for Koreans. As setting good circumstance of playing, I will give everything to my fans and FOX team by winning lots of titles in 2009."

WeMade FOX manager, in the meantime, hinted at more players making their ways to the newly formed team, "We are concerned with it(training). There aren't many first class players in Korea, and the training condition is pretty poor so players usually train with foreign players. We will introduce more quality players in the near future so I am quite confident of our training scheme."

It not only made the 22-year-old the best paid player in Warcraft III scene, but also the second best paid player in the whole e-Sports scene in Korea, slightly behind Starcraft legend Yoon Yeol 'NaDa' Lee, who signed a contract with WeMade FOX that worth 750,000,000 won back in 2007.

The other familiar active Starcraft players don’t even come close to Moon, as “revolutionist” Bisu’s current contract worth 150,000,000 won, while the other top four players in KeSPA March Ranking, Young Ho 'Flash' Lee, Jae Dong 'Jaedong' Lee and Byung Goo 'Stork' Song earn significantly less.

Source:
http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/228...d_signing_Moon

i wish someone would pay me to play street fighter, I would be rich :). No matter if I win or lose I love the shit outta that game

dorks...go play hockey or something

In Korea, you don't mess with starcraft

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Originally Posted by blkgsr (Post 6326997)

dorks...go play hockey or something

hahaha

the first guy looks suprisingly unnerdy

i never knew koreans played warcraft... thought it was just sc and sudden death or something

So.. WC3 is their next target ehh haha

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Originally Posted by blkgsr (Post 6326997)

dorks...go have sex or something

fixed

mlg players get more, actually it is quite gross the amount people get paid to play video games

Great pay, but what a sad life.

who's gonna be paying attention to the game with chicks like that standing next to you

with the economy the way it is... they can still afford to pay ridiculous amounts of money to ppl to play games... fantastic

i have a friend that moved to japan to play warcraft 3 frozen throne.... he wasnt godly comapred to koreans so he came back:(

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Originally Posted by Mancini (Post 6327084)

Great pay, but what a sad life.

if i had a contract for that much money in my early 20s, i'd play games for a few years too! still got the rest of your life ahead of you, and its not like u cant go out and spend that money having fun while you're at it

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Originally Posted by unit (Post 6327107)

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wow, they really take this stuff seriously heh?

*arcraft is serious business.

well they do have hundreds of people watching 2 people sit on the comp playing starcraft

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Originally Posted by hotjoint (Post 6326995)

i wish someone would pay me to play street fighter, I would be rich :). No matter if I win or lose I love the shit outta that game

sure, i'd give you a phat contract myself but first prove yourself by beating diego.

Good movie about pro gamers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-5RKxz-xIE

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Originally Posted by AsRealAsItGets (Post 6327305)

sure, i'd give you a phat contract myself but first prove yourself by beating diego.

http://l.yimg.com/img.movies.yahoo.c..._leary/ice.jpg

Why would you want to beat a sabertooth tiger. Daigo would never do that.

^ ROFL ROFL ROFL

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