>Can you mark a living at esports if you’re not one of the best you’re doing well? Esports is vague. But for Dota 2 and LoL you can make a living while being re

>Can you mark a living at esports if you’re not one of the best you’re doing well? Esports is vague. But for Dota 2 and LoL you can make a living while being relatively unknown in the space. A good living actually, salaries are insane for those 2 esports. >You have to win to earn money in esports right? You have a salary, then if you win in Dota 2's case you take the whole prize money, in some other games you take some of it. >It seems like the difference in professional athletics is you’ve got a somewhat predictable income at some point. The info in the article seem to be outdated, any serious esports today give you a stable income. The salaries are actually competitive, team today have big sponsors, and the sponsors pay most of the players' salary, so it gets super competitive between teams to get certain players. Before this was common, you've seem all-star teams more often, nowadays players have to balance between being in a team that has a shot of taking the world championship and being in the team that pay the most. Must be noted that one of the biggest drivers of salaries being really high in esports is betting websites as sponsors.