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Turn Your FPS Skills Into Cash

Posted by Zonk on from the every-frag-is-worth-a-buck dept.

Game|Life is posting about a new agreement between Valve and an outfit called Tournament.com that will allow for an official Counter-Strike/Half-Life 2 Multiplayer game competition service. It sounds a lot like online poker tournaments, where players ante into a pot and the winner walks away with the results. "Another option is a perpetual, ongoing game that players can drop into at any time. If you get killed, you lose $1. If you kill another player, you get $1. When your virtual 'wallet' is out of money, you're done playing. Until you add some more funds with a credit card or PayPal, that is. For now, Tournament.com is strictly small stakes. Entry fees for the example tournaments were $3.60 for each of six players, with an $18 pot split between first, second, and third place. Company representatives said they're considering high-roller tournaments, but want to make sure the service has been fully field-tested, and potential cheating methods blocked off, before big money starts getting thrown around." One of the findings of the SOE White Paper was that some people are perfectly happy making money off of their gaming hobby. How long before we see similar livelihoods via this service?

6 of 109 comments (clear)

  1. New Strategy by digitalgiblet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's how I would play:

    Find 3 or more players close together.

    Run into the middle of them.

    Detonate grenades killing everyone around (including myself).

    1) I lose $1.

    2) I gain $4.

    3) Profit!!

    *NOTE* Shouting "Leroy Jenkins" is an optional embellishment.

  2. New Strategy-First Person Bomber. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Find 3 or more players close together.

    Run into the middle of them.

    Detonate grenades killing everyone around (including myself).
    "

    I think the Iraqi's have a patent on it.

  3. Better way by UbuntuDupe · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's a much more direct way to make money off of FPS skills.

    1) Be female and sort of good looking.
    2) Be sort of good at a popular multiplayer FPS.
    3) Get boatloads of sponsorship to play in tournaments.
    4) Profit!

    (No, there is no step between 3 and 4.)

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    Apology to Ubuntu forum.
  4. Title... by Elsan · · Score: 2, Funny

    The title should've been "PWNZ PPLZ 4 MUNEY$" so more FPS players would've been interested.

  5. Re:Great idea. by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...5/100?

  6. Re:Peer review stops cheating. But it's not perfec by HarvardAce · · Score: 3, Funny

    votekick TLF

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    Note to self: Stop putting jokes in my insightful comments so I can get something other than +1 Funny!