FOR LOVE OR FOR MONEY?

by Rinie Friday 29 May 2009



Recently, I had a discussion with some of my friends about the pro-gaming scene. Their question is simple, why waste time in something that doesnt give high profit?


Let us look back to the meaning of Pro-Gamers. The simple explanation is you get paid to play games competitively. But how much do you get paid to call yourself as pro-gamer? Does someone who won a competition prize of RM300 consider as pro-gamer too?

Apparently, if its according to the meaning itself, yup the person above is a pro-gamer. But to my own definition, I prefer to say that Pro-Gamers is you get paid to play games competitively and still manage to pay all the bills,foods and etc etc. Meaning you can live just by playing games. So does this group apparently exist in Malaysia?

I would say NO. We dont have this type of groups yet. Even if we heard some gamers get paid to play, well they still cant afford to live alone or live only by playing games. Its either they get some sort of support by their families or they have another normal job. I myself is in the later group. Or if you know anyone who actually fulfill the above requirement, please do let us know. We will be happy to be proven wrong ^^

But here is the catch; why do you play games? why do you want to be a pro-gamer? Is it because of the money? Is it because you wanna run away from the normal boring jobs offered in the market? Why do you want to be a pro-gamer?

Everyone has their own reasons. But i will tell you this right now, if you play games because of money, you will never be a Pro-Gamer. Even if you became a Pro-Gamer, you will not live a happy life. The reason is simple, its because your doing it because of the money, not because you like/love it. No matter what you do, be it you wanna be a doctor,engineer,lawyer,astronaut and etc etc, if the reason alone is because of money, you will fail.

Live is simple. If you want to do something, if your looking for the correct job, the best thing is to follow your heart. Never do because material things. I know we all like to be rich. But you can choose which type of rich person you wanna be. The happy one or the miserable one? Yes there is miserable rich people too. No matter what nothing can substitute eternal happiness and eternal love.

So i urge everyone,especially our readers who have this aspiration to be a pro-gamer to be honest and ask yourself 1st, why do you wanna be a pro-gamer?

No matter what your heart says, even if it hurts you, even if its hard to swallow in, always and always follow your heart~

So why am i still playing games? Its because i love it.