Free Step Dodge

I still don’t recognise it as a job, nor do I count it as an achievement.

Only if you make "livable" real money from it then it's a real job, but telling people "I'm S rank in DOA" to people who don't know what DOA is to try and impress them....... Go read a book or something bruh xD

Gaming isn’t a job to me, even if you earn money with it.

Being a professional gamer is as much a career as a professional athlete. If you make enough money to support yourself from it, it's your career. Like Raansu pointed out, e-sports athletes can make serious money. Check out the trends dude, e-sports is actually the future. With that said, yeah, I can't see fighting games ever becoming a major e-sport. And yes, online rank means nothing in most fighting games.

It’s still my perception. It might be the future, but I won’t accept being good at videogames as a job, even if it makes money. Being good at video games isn’t an accomplishment, nor should it be treated as one.

If this is in anyway because of the crap with lopedo, that has NOTHING to do with e-sports. But seriously though, e-sports will be HUGE in the future. Hell, it's already huge in South Korea with serious money on the line in the millions sometimes.

I don't think being a professional gamer is really different in any noticeable way from being a professional athlete.
Which is to say I don't pay much mind to either.

That said, accomplishing things in video games is undeniably an achievement. Eating 20 hot dogs in a day is also an achievement, it just has a different perceived value attached than, say, open heart surgery.

With the mindset being harboured, being good at sports isn't a job. Being good at music isn't a job. Being good at art isn't a job. Being good at modelling isn't a job. Etc. etc. Your opinion is coming off as very closeminded and defensive even, as if a gamer offended you.

^That was directed towards Onryoki, not me, correct?

Yes. Your post appeared after I posted mine. Don't worry.

No sweat.

Mind telling us what a career is to you, then?

I'm more perplexed by people that "retire" a game as if they've put in three decades of time.

They spend hours a day training and reviewing tape of other teams and coming up with strategies to counter other teams setups. That level of dedication is no longer gaming, its work, especially when you're being compensated to do said things. If you're making a livable income playing games professional it is most definitely your job and your career.

A career to me is more something you go to school/college for, there are of course jobs you don’t have to study for like working in fast food, etc. E-sports gaming might be a career to most, but I don’t really see it as one, maybe it has to do with the fact that I don’t see getting better at a game as work. I’m not really offended @Force_of_Nature, it might be close minded. But I just don’t see it as a career or job.

Gaming is more of a hobby to me. Most people disagree with me on this topic, but that’s just how I think. Sorry if anyone is offended by this.

I'm not offended by it, I just find it weird. Reminds me of the people that blast youtubers and telling them to get a job when being a youtuber is a job/career. If whatever you're doing is making enough money for you to live comfortably off of its a career/job.

It is a career, especially if you make money from it.
I don't look at people who pursue this career the same way I do many other careers, however.

There is schools for esports too.

Well then... I said what I said. I know many people may find it weird, but it’s w.e.