It seems like articles like this from BBC suffer from memory loss here and attempt to attract towards the survivorship bias in the Fortnite/PUGP tornaments to convince you that you can get a better job when playing games and not even mention the health risks that comes with playing video games all day long.
The Nintendo Switch is at least trying to improve how we play games (The Wii was a step in the right direction in terms of improving our health) but these tournaments are really just encouraging unhealthiness in sitting down for too long for a live-stream / tournament for the 'chance' to earn viewers or money.
So, I do not think that it is worth playing video games for e-sports all day to get you a better job even if money was involved (As tens of thousands of teams are competing anyway). I would either use video-games as for training / assessment or relaxing purposes but not to do full time. Perhaps a better skill would be building AI bots to play games and may the best AI win.
Nice try Beeb, but HN can detect bullshit articles like this in nano-seconds.
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-39232620
The Nintendo Switch is at least trying to improve how we play games (The Wii was a step in the right direction in terms of improving our health) but these tournaments are really just encouraging unhealthiness in sitting down for too long for a live-stream / tournament for the 'chance' to earn viewers or money.
So, I do not think that it is worth playing video games for e-sports all day to get you a better job even if money was involved (As tens of thousands of teams are competing anyway). I would either use video-games as for training / assessment or relaxing purposes but not to do full time. Perhaps a better skill would be building AI bots to play games and may the best AI win.
Nice try Beeb, but HN can detect bullshit articles like this in nano-seconds.