{"id":12631,"date":"2015-06-11T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12631"},"modified":"2015-06-11T07:28:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T11:28:43","slug":"careers-in-the-professional-computer-gaming-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/careers-in-the-professional-computer-gaming-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers In The Professional Computer Gaming Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/061115_1125_CareersInTh1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cracked covered some of the more interesting career options available in the computer gaming industry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Computer Sports athletes can make incredible sums of money. Not just through winning game championships \u2013 which can be worth millions \u2013 but also through team sponsorships.<\/li>\n<li>Sponsoring a computer game player is particularly lucrative since a lot of people who watch professional esports are players themselves and so a sponsor knows that they&#8217;re appealing to their target base.<\/li>\n<li>But players don&#8217;t have to play professionally to make money. Those who stream their screen through services like Twitch while they&#8217;re playing can also make a load of money, as long as the way they play is entertaining.<\/li>\n<li>Any professional sport has professional commentators that describe game action and provide pre\/post-game analysis.<\/li>\n<li>Professional teams with millions banked on them also need teem managers to ensure the players are well rested and don&#8217;t party too hard before a game.<\/li>\n<li>Unfortunately the average person can&#8217;t necessarily take up any of these jobs. A lot of the support roles are filled by retirees from the industry \u2013 usually those around 30.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the industry and other fascinating career tracks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/6-awesome-gaming-related-careers-you-didnt-know-existed\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/6-awesome-gaming-related-careers-you-didnt-know-existed\/\">Cracked<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cracked covered some of the more interesting career options available in the computer gaming industry: Computer Sports athletes can make incredible sums of money. Not just through winning game championships \u2013 which can be worth millions \u2013 but also through team sponsorships. Sponsoring a computer game player is particularly lucrative since a lot of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/061115_1125_CareersInTh1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12634,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions\/12634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}