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Fortnite Star Ninja Says He Raked in Millions of Dollars Last Year (cnet.com)
In case you needed another reminder that Fortnite was the biggest game of 2018, esports star Ninja says he racked up millions of dollars playing it last year. From a report: Tyler Blevins, aka Ninja, told CNN in a story Monday that he made nearly $10 million last year playing Fortnite: Battle Royale. Blevins has more than 12.5 million followers on game streaming service Twitch and more than 20 million subscribers on streaming giant YouTube. The professional gamer told CNN he made most of his fortune from advertisers on YouTube and Twitch, as well as from video game tournaments and sponsors like Samsung and Red Bull. The famous Fortnite gamer snatched the spotlight when he broke a Twitch viewing record in March. Blevins streamed himself and rapper Drake playing duo in Fortnite, which more than 600,000 people watched live at its peak.
so, yep. it's true.
He's doing very well for himself in a job that didn't exist just a few years ago. If he's smart he'll invest that money. There's no guarantee he'll be able to make the transition when the next content platform or even new game comes along.
I have been really impressed with how fast Fortnite has grown.
Just from speaking with friends that have kids, it seems like Fortnite has been kind of addictive (like kids getting in trouble for Fortnite related offenses), and I have to wonder if some of the draw is not kids partly dreaming they will be the next Ninja, earning big bucks by playing games... not unlike kids that wanted to be sports stars or movie actors.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I don't understand what the appeal of watching someone else play a video game. To me, video games have always been about doing something. I might check out a clip from a game to see what it's like, but it's hard to see myself watching someone play a game & blather on while they're doing it. Maybe it's a generational thing? I'd sincerely like to hear someone explain to my why this is a thing.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Why are these people always complete assholes? Every time I've seen him get killed on streams he's there firing up "Report Player" and reporting them for stream sniping. And I swear that guy is going to have an aneurism with the rage fits he has from time to time.
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You see now??? This is why Cdreimer left /. after 20 years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt that he left them alone with APK.
The thing to do for him: post more videos :)
I found most Twitch chat to be all caught up in retarded meme comments like 'poggers', 'pog', 'kappa' and lately 'pepega'. It's like memes are for people that can't think for themselves, spewing the same crap over and over to appear to be with the 'in crowd'.
Meme is more like "Me Me, look at me!"
I will never be able to wrap my head around watching someone else play video games. I get how there should be a similarity between that and watching pros play physical sports, but I just can't get over that gap.
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Long before you could earn millions of dollars from playing games. A new hot game would come out and a bunch of us would be bleary-eyed and useless in school for the next week. I even had a few friends drop out of college because they couldn't control their gaming addictions. Heck, the management at our small software company basically wrote off the day's work when a big new game was released, and just let us play with each other that day (a lot of management played too).
I don't understand what the appeal of watching someone else play a video game.
When I was starting to play Fortnite, I watched a number of videos of people playing to understand what the mechanics of really successful players looked like - to see what was possible.
Sometimes in the past I have watched video (live or otherwise) of people playing because they were going to play a part of a game where I wanted to see what happened, but did not want to put in the time required to see for myself.
Sometimes I'm actually a little surprised games sell so well when so many people could spend less time just watching some people play. That's more for games that are tedious, but it sure seems like a lot of modern games have tedious elements these days.
Also I am sure some people just like being involved in a kind of community, where a bunch of people are supporting some person and they recognize that support in real time. That is kind of an energy boost to be part of something larger than yourself.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Or else all of the whinings about millennials living paycheck to paycheck is only because they have misplaced financial priorities. And don['t know how to do things for themselves so they have plenty of time to spend doing ... nothing of value.
I admit it, I play video games. Free ones. When I have the time from doing other things.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
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User-Generated Content and live game streaming is the reason why cable and satellite is going into the ground for the under-40 crowd.
That said, my GPA suffered a semester or two from watching a friend play Civilization 1 back in the day. At least we had an excuse to go down to the arcade since there was one worth going to...
Why do need a reminder that video gaymez are gay and a waste of time, offering absolutely nothing positive to society that heroin can't?
Why are these people always complete assholes? Every time I've seen him get killed on streams he's there firing up "Report Player" and reporting them for stream sniping. And I swear that guy is going to have an aneurism with the rage fits he has from time to time.
You're part of the problem; the very act of watching the streams and whining about it make you an enabler.
When I was a kid, we played outside. We invented a pretty sophisticated game of battling kingdoms that involved running around acting like it was Game of Thrones or whatever.
A few years later, video games came out. We sometimes sat on the couch pressing buttons.
Now the "fun" is to watch someone else sit on the couch pressing buttons.
I thought it was sad that my four year old daughter got into watching Ryan's Toy Reviews - watching another kid play with toys. This is another level, sitting in the couch watching someone else sit in the couch. If people enjoy that, I suppose that's cool. To each their own. Sure is different, though.
Government or lucrative corporate jobs are definitely in a position for all these things. I have a relative who is blowing ~500 dollars a month between cable tv, internet, and cell phone bills. Parents own their house and they have no savings, spouse, or kids. Another friend drinks like a fish, lives in a small apartment in a big city and blows all his money on videogames and booze. No kids, a dog, and limited savings each month.
As a counterpoint, I have another friend. Ex Vet. Went through a nursing program after getting out of the military as a combat medic. Got pigeonholed in a cafeteria job while trying to get into the hospitals nursing staff. Midwest, limited job opportunities in each town they lived in. One full time child for all but the first few years. Gets up to 250 over their expenses each month, and about half the time their job would cut hours the next month to keep them paycheck to paycheck.
There are definitely a lot of failings among millenials, but depending on your region, education (only the first example had a college degree), and connections, you may struggle just to make ends meet, nevermind enjoy the life of luxury commented about on youtube.
Hell, most youtubes, like most rappers, are faking it in the hopes of making it, like has been going on for the past 40-50ish years (Even old black and white TV shows gave examples of this, where someone was impressing their boss in order to convince them they needed a raise, or opportunity at a different job.)
As to your comment about free games: I did the same, until they became too nosy about my exact system fingerprint and I stopped playing.
how long before e-jock taxes come up?
> They're watching for the host's commentary and the social interaction with other viewers through chat.
Well that's almost as silly as this site I saw once where somebody would post poorly spelled, ridiculously biased commentary about some months-old news item. Then people would have "social interaction" discussing old news that didn't even matter to anyone other than total nerds even when it was fresh. So silly.
I don't waste my hours playing games. Only wastoids do that. Well I got to go, I'm gonna listen to all of the Grateful Dead discography tonight.
Last year the crypto currency boom meant that anything faster than a 1050 (non TI) was selling for 2-3x retail. Fortnite runs find on a 5 year old mid range card you could get off ebay for $100 bucks. If you wanted a multiplayer game on PC, especially if you wanted to get into the battle royal genre, fortnite was the way to go.
I don't think the hype train hurts though.
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on road trips or stuck at grandma's house away from their computer. Also, lots of kids have internet at home for school work but not cable TV ($100-$150/mo is kind of a non-starter).
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He made millions yelling and swearing at kids in fortnite. What a shitty time we live in.
Cdreimer is butthurt because APK keeps ass fucking him. It is the only time APK is a pitcher instead of a catcher.
They all have massive egos, losing cannot possible be something they've done wrong, the vicariousness of their fans is even pitiful.