South Korea May Be The Best Country On Earth

There are many different jobs which I would enjoy having; God of the Universe taking first place. But a bit lower down that ladder [and the first realistic one] is proffessional gamer. Haven't heard of those?? That's because they don't really exist in most english speaking and 'western' countries outside of game testers and reviewers.

But in one glorious, uptopian country their proffessional gamers are equivalent to rock stars, gathering fame and fortune with one sweep of their arm. And that's not just the pinnacle people. No, the lower echelons of proffessional gamers still get money and respect on the level of semi-successful musicians. It surely is a paradise.

And how do they make this money you may ask?? Well, because the people of South Korea are far more elightened than those of the west and value video gaming so highy [as all people should], many of them are willing to pay the same amount people here do for concerts to go see these things, and they are regularly televised. Add all that up with sponsors on par with near-top level European Football stars, and I think you get the picture. These people play video games to get rich AND make everyone happy.

In South Korea RTS [Real Time Strategy] games are, to the best of my knowledge, the most popular genre with Starcraft and Warcraft III tournaments laying claim to godlike numbers of fans. FPS [First Person Shooters] are also popular, and both also have tournamanets in Europe and North America. As far as I am aware, there are none in Australia.

And while I've been describing how awesome proffessional gaming is [and if you haven't picked that up your either stupid or hat video games, so I hate you] you may have wondered what game I would play proffessionally. Well, thats a little hard. I like FPSs, but I'm not very good at them. If I got to choose any, it would be Samurai Warriors 2 [which is the best game ever made], because I honest to god kick ass at it. But I don't think there's tournament for that, so in the RTS realm, I'd probably like Age Of Empire III, or if I had to settle, Warcraft III.