[kuri]

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

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/22880-FOX_officially_unveils_record_signing_Moon

[hotjoint]

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

[blkgsr]

dorks...go play hockey or something

[Carl Johnson]

In Korea, you don't mess with starcraft

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[turbo4g63]

dorks...go play hockey or something

hahaha

[Leung_Dog]

the first guy looks suprisingly unnerdy

[R8]

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

[Armind]

So.. WC3 is their next target ehh haha

[Noir]

dorks...go have sex or something

fixed

[hal0g0dv2]

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

[Mancini]

Great pay, but what a sad life.

[MrDevil]

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

[wddian]

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

[Nvasion]

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

[unit]

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

[hotjoint]

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

:werd:

[mr sinister]

MB0OvKLXjAU

[BabyblooLexus]

wow, they really take this stuff seriously heh?

[hal0g0dv2]

www.mlgpro.com

[InvisibleSoul]

*arcraft is serious business.

[Nvasion]

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

[AsBannedAsItGets]

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.

[Manic!]

Good movie about pro gamers

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

[turbomelon]

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

http://l.yimg.com/img.movies.yahoo.com/ymv/us/img/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/ice_age_2__the_meltdown/denis_leary/ice.jpg

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

[HonestTea]

^ ROFL ROFL ROFL

FUCKING RANDOM

:haha: :haha::haha: :haha: :haha: :haha:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[HonestTea]

I don't get why you guys are so mad at them.. lol it's pretty fucking awesome making so much money in your late-teens or early-20's by playing some game you'll probably play yourself even if they didn't pay you..

Play for a few years, make some good money and buy whatever the fuck you want after. However, the guys that are well-recognized get a lot of "special treatment" at clubs and shit..

[Vansterdam]

:bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl:

[Noir]

I don't get why you guys are so mad at them.. lol it's pretty fucking awesome making so much money in your late-teens or early-20's by playing some game you'll probably play yourself even if they didn't pay you..

No one's mad at them :confused: They're just snickering.

[ImportPsycho]

what's going to happen to pro-SC players if they suck at new SC2?
what's pro-CS players are doing now that no body plays that game anymore? lol

[HonestTea]

^ Poker

ROFL

I'm serious..

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier was a professional SC player on the "AMD" team and he won millions off poker recently..a few good finishes and won like 3 major tournaments or something.

[Synaptik]

this guy's gotta be a basshunter fan

[moomooCow]

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

rofl :haha::haha: i'm sorry but that's cracking me up.

[B-DiZzLe]

I think i could have beat both of them if they allied up against me :D

[JSALES]

this guy needs to go get laid!

[Nightwalker]

That's fucking awesome! Maybe one day there will be a game that's mainstream to watch competitions of on TV. Might hard to identify and get into without real faces/people to watch. Might be a solution to that some day.

It's like sports but all brainpower.

I saw a Starcraft 2 demo that was a 1on1 match and had commentators, it was really entertaining to watch.

[Carl Johnson]

what's going to happen to pro-SC players if they suck at new SC2?
what's pro-CS players are doing now that no body plays that game anymore? lol

you kidding right? i wouldn't be surprised if blizzard already sneaked a couple of SC2 copies to these korean pro gamers for final testing before launch

[flawless]

That's fucking awesome! Maybe one day there will be a game that's mainstream to watch competitions of on TV. Might hard to identify and get into without real faces/people to watch. Might be a solution to that some day.

It's like sports but all brainpower.

I saw a Starcraft 2 demo that was a 1on1 match and had commentators, it was really entertaining to watch.

That shit is mainstream tv for koreans alright. Hahah I was in Korea last year and I remember they had 2 channels reserved for Starcraft competitions that had a thousand or two spectators.

[AzNightmare]

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

No, to get paid, you gotta be UBERRRRRR L337 sauce at the game. So you probably wouldn't be rich... unless maybe you ARE really that good... :o


Great pay, but what a sad life.

Maybe, but if I was raking in that much money for playing games, I would love it too. And it's not all that "sad". You're a celebrity when you're in that business in South Korea. I wouldn't be surprised if you could pick a bunch of hot chicks. (Just look at any live game with all the girls screaming in the crowds) This is the only place where you can be a gaming nerd + get hot girls.

Anyway, once you're in this level of competition, it's not really all "fun and games." It's like any professional sport, these guys aren't just playing every weekend when it's convienent like what we do. These guys play at least 6-8 hrs on a daily basis to practice/train. (Like what pro atheletes would do according to the sport they play).

And I always thought Boxer was the highest paid gamer, not NaDa...

[Shun Izaki]

michael tse needs to get paid for wc3... he was #1 in West for the longest time XD

that and playing 3 years of competitive cs has ruined my life hahaha

[HonestTea]

No, to get paid, you gotta be UBERRRRRR L337 sauce at the game. So you probably wouldn't be rich... unless maybe you ARE really that good... :o




Maybe, but if I was raking in that much money for playing games, I would love it too. And it's not all that "sad". You're a celebrity when you're in that business in South Korea. I wouldn't be surprised if you could pick a bunch of hot chicks. (Just look at any live game with all the girls screaming in the crowds) This is the only place where you can be a gaming nerd + get hot girls.

Anyway, once you're in this level of competition, it's not really all "fun and games." It's like any professional sport, these guys aren't just playing every weekend when it's convienent like what we do. These guys play at least 6-8 hrs on a daily basis to practice/train. (Like what pro atheletes would do according to the sport they play).

And I always thought Boxer was the highest paid gamer, not NaDa...

NaDa has always made more money then BoxeR...his contract is HUGE and you add in endorsements and tournament winnings..

[AzNightmare]

^ I must of read it wrong somewhere then.

I still think BoxeR is still more famous than NaDa, and I'm sure BoxeR would have his own endorsements and stuff.

[iwantaskyline]

They actually have girl fanclubs in Korea for Starcraft players. Pretty sure they get pussy.

[Jason00S2000]

Anyone know how much top counter-strike players make?

[Ronin]

Actually, SK Gaming, I believe (or rather Ensidia as they're known now since they merged with...Curse, I think) are sponsored World of Warcraft players.

Not surprised at all. For anyone that thinks this is sad...you're getting paid a fuck ton of money to PLAY FUCKING VIDEO GAMES. Tell those nerds to get some sun and women if you want but they have enough money to buy your women...and possibly your sunlight.

[Ronin]

Anyone know how much top counter-strike players make?

In which country?

[Shun Izaki]

Anyone know how much top counter-strike players make?

here... next to nothing XD

though I only got as far as cal-im

[freakshow]

I don't think most of you understand what it means to be, for instance, the #1 SC player in Korea. In Korea, the #1 SC player will make Bard Pitt, comparatively, look like William Hung.
They'll make more money, and get more women that any of you here.