2012-08-09, 09:29 PM
rassilon Wrote:I would say it's the same thing that defines any other "professional" - if playing games is your job, pays your bills, you are a pro. If playing games gets in the way of your job or otherwise messes up your life, you're probably addicted.
That's why I say it must be impossible. IDK much about this really, but I believe gaming tournaments give rewards only to the 3 top places like in most competitions, if lucky, the 10 top places. Now let's take this to gaming, in a comunity like, let's say Seoul's, you will be competing against the same people in the tournaments you go and most likely it will be always the same top 10 people battling it among themselves for the prizes, leaving no chance for the rest. Everyone else is screwed and wont get anything back from all the time they spend into this, it works for MarineKing because he is already among that top 10, but MarineKing had to spend like 10 years for it as it's said in the video.
The line between progaming and addiction is so thin that its hard to tell them one another.