Starcraft 2 - A History Through Pro Player Earnings
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- This video shows how StarCraft 2 got its first millionaires in Serral and Rogue, with Maru not far behind. It showcases the highest earning players of all time, out of hundreds of players who have competed since 2010. If you've followed SC2 from the start, we hope you enjoy the trip down memory lane. If you're new to the game, this is a history lesson showcasing the many memorable memories and champions of the past 12 years.
The data for this racing bar graph was sourced from www.esportsear.... There are other sources for StarCraft earnings that show slightly different numbers, such as Liquipedia, Aligulac etc.
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Thanks for all the love guys! If you enjoyed this vid, share it around! It's not my usual kind of content so lots of viewers instantly don't want to click on it, which is a shame since we poured so much work into it
Very cool content PiG love how creative you are! What an amazing trip down memory lane. GG WP!
This also might be the first video to mention 'you know who' by name I've seen in the last half a decade lmao.
It was cool seeing Reynor start to jump up the list there at the end...I'm curious to see how these new players like reynor, clem, maxpax, etc. evolve the scene
Really looking forward to the next era of Starcraft!
@@PiGstarcraft A new era is just begining, just as it was in 2017 with Maru, Dark, Serral starting to climb through the ranks.
Playerwise, the game is in extremely good hands
I remember when Reynor was like 15 and not even allowed in big tournaments, Lowko talked about him and how he'd be a pro in no time
Don't forget Creator, the Korean Protoss youngen coming up.. He just beat Trap recently, in a pretty dominating fashion.
Serral and Rogue (and many others) have been playing for a LONG TIME. For all of the work they put in you have to put that into perspective. The Average yearly amount for those in the us around 60 grand (more now than 10 years ago). That's 600K for the average person who DOES NOT WORK AS HARD as these guys.
I have to congratulate them for their efforts however I'm a now 1% wealth bracket in the US. Most of my wealth was gained in those 10 years.
Why am I'm posting this. To be a professional in anything is really hard. I know and understand this aspect. I firmly believe that for what they make they should be paid more. AGAIN I know how hard it is to be a professional gamer. They should be paid more than they are now. Because during the same time span I made far more money than they while not working as hard as they.
This is something that must be stated. The video gaming industry is CHEAP and again all professionals should be paid better than the chump change that they get.
I totally agree, but you have to also consider that this is just tournament earnings - there is also a salary for those guys - still prize money in all esports but the top 2/3 esports titles are slacking. But this will change in the next 10 years or so - its a booming industry and the big titles will generate milions of $. and will also pay more for their top players. i mean watch league and dota ^^
Yeah, well. Find Life and punch him, hard. His match fixing cost every Starcraft professional probably two thirds of their lifetime earnings.
oh man seeing TB and iNcontroL there at the end.... RIP gents.
Soo finally getting first place is one of the most memorable moments for me. In large part because of just how hard Smix seemingly tried to make him cry. ;-)
It was both funny and heartwarming to see him there, trying to hold back tears.
Such a shame that the prize pool for StarCraft is insignificant compared to e-Sports like LoL or CS:GO. I am sure there would have been tens of millionaires in the SC2 scene.
Just until recently TaeJa was the one with the most titles from Premier tournaments but since he never managed to win GSL and BlizCon he is not even close to half a million.
Nevertheless - StarCraft is life!
Unique and very cool video. Was interesting to see the history of SC2 from this perspective. I especially loved the odd historic clips that were thrown into the mix, the archon toilet, Huk’s halluc vs Idra and Scarlett’s burrowed banes vs Boxer, even Geoff’s interview with MC (b-- please!). Those wonderful memories made this video feel real. It was a great analysis and it also came from the heart, from someone who truly has a genuine love for the game, the players, and indeed the entire scene. You’re a gem PiG.
Cheers mate! it was great to reminisce while i did this vid!
You should do more videos like this. Do a deep dive into players, maybe just cover their dominate year. Short documentaries of their success and failures
Awesome review! I am amused by the color coordination which includes a grey color for people who played “Random” as it did not come up even once in the list…. The closest thing is Mardow at 0:30 which must be a typo for MorroW - who interestingly chose his race based off his opponents race! So, not exactly random
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there was a Mardow www.esportsearnings.com/players/17979-mardow-sebastian-dutsch but you also found one of our mistakes! we didn't input his race so it turns up green
@@PiGstarcraft I remember Gumiho had a GSL run as random in the early days too
@@Crossovahh We've seen a few Random players. There's GuMiho as you mentioned, only Random player to ever actually get into the GSL individual leagues. There was GuineaPig, who was a solid GSTL player, and there was Balloon who ended up being a decently popular streamer.
My total earnings stand still at forty euros from the ICYFAR competition.
Great video Pig, I love your analysis specifically in the psychology of SC2 and just competitive games (I don't play SC2 at a very high level plat terran and protoss at one point) but I play chess to a reasonable level and your review of a bad day on the ladder and the mentality of it is so accurate, when I get into a tilted session it's literally just "Can't believe I didn't win last game and now I'm behind again better just GG" and it's like the days I'm playing well I kind of agree, I don't enjoy losing but I can appreciate the game and that's when the best games are played. - long time fan FYI your terran guides got me through some tough SC2 times haha keep making great stuff!
This was an awesome summary of a very illustrious pro scene! It's amazing to see these guys' progress throughout the years, and to remember the giants of old
Thanks pig, I've been wanting a history video from you for a long time!
soO winning that championship is still super moving to me. One of the all time bro moments.
Wow, a standard youtube-like video from PiG telling a story, how cute :). Thanks for summarizing it and putting it in a time-saving format
Life could’ve been the goat Zerg.
:(
Great video, PiG. It's weird how even as the scene has gotten smaller and smaller, the prize pools for 1st Place seem to have been growing. Too bad for Mvp there were no 100k-200k for 1st Place IEM tournaments or anything back then. The GSL Open Seasons and Super Tournament were close though. I think the first tournament in SC2 history to cough up 100k for the winner was the 2012 WCS Global Finals (which was an amazing tournament by the way, I'm sure you remember how awesome the WCS system was in 2012!).
Really cool video thanks PiG!
Awesome sc2 history lesson thank you pig! I wonder how similar the pro scenes of upcoming RTS's like Immortal and the Frost Giant game are going to be to starcraft II. Maybe someday I'll end up being the $antaclaw$ for one of those games!
Thanks! I appreciate having this video for future reference :)
Would be super cool if someone could make one like this for Broodwar - Looking up the history without having actually been there, it's really hard to tell which tournaments held weight and how the big name players compared against each other. Maybe I'll run it by Arty
Wow, this looks like a lot of work to gather all that data!
I liked that. Nice trip down memory lane. But I had this discussion with a friend just the other day, "Why can LOL put up millions in one tourney and SC, the esport OG, cant even pull that in a year???" Makes me sad.
SC2 doesn't have the viewership. LOL tournaments get millions of viewers tuning in- its game is still extremely strong in terms of viewers and players, even since 2010 when it first came out.
No viewers = less money. SC2 tournaments are lucky to pull 50-100k viewers, and most tournaments pull about 25-50k viewers. You look when there isn't a tournament- SC2 streamers combined pull maybe 10-25k viewers.
Back in the day SC2 was huge but e-sports was also very new and there was pretty much only one competitive e-sport in SC2. Now that the scene has matured SC2 has fallen way back. It lacks casual and social appeal. It's tough to play with your friends in SC2 unlike LOL and LOL focuses a lot on the casual fanbase while SC2 focuses a lot on the competitive side.
Match-fixing was like 12 steps back because of the sponsor pull out
@@HappyTofu2424 I feel SC2 is busy transitioning to becoming an "actual" sport where it's out grown it's developed and current financial value. Imo it has the potential to become stand alone like any other sport. You ever hear of a sport dying out, other then when it's pop of players, die out? I haven't, but this is pie in the sky until the concept matures to be sulfcuficient.
@@Apr0x1m0 Bro how is it gonna become a stand alone with no financial backing? Blizzard barely touches SC2 nowadays. There's barely any new professional or casual players coming in. A game that loses viewership and players is never going to become a stand alone.
SC2's population of players is slowly but surely dying out. There are barely any streamers, not much content creation, there really isn't much in this game if you don't like the competitive aspect.
SC2 won't ever die out completely but it's very doubtful that it'll ever become a huge e-sport again.
@@HappyTofu2424 but that's kinda my point, focus on the pro and tourney aspect. How many sports fans play the sport they watch? Granted it won't be easy and you'd need to structure a lot, but it's doable imo.
I started with SC 2 with legacy so late 2015, but man i wish i was there from the beginning when MC and MVP were dominating wings back then. But for me the biggest moment was the match between Serral and Stats in 2018, i remember over 300k people watching on twitch that game. Best time SC 2 probably ever had.
Well well… Startale Life 😂 Isn’t Maru at 1m too? At least according to Liquipedia iirc. Marvellous video mate.
The data for this racing bar graph was sourced from www.esportsearnings.com/games/151-starcraft-ii. There are other sources for StarCraft earnings that show slightly different numbers, such as Liquipedia, Aligulac etc.
Great job!
Best esports ever
Damn it! Life, you broke my heart.
I thoroughly enjoyed that, cheers PiG
That was a fun one, dude!
(Which is basically true for each of your videos, to be fair.)
Woah, that Serral breakout was so sick xD. Also, so funny that just when you said "some of them made some dollars in random online tournaments" then Rotti, Apollo and Incontrol appear, that was so funny! RIP Incontrol, we'll never forget you
and TB
great vid but man this is really sad when you think of the fact that these people played for over a decade and perfected such a hard skill. the yearly roi is trash there. especially when you remember a 16 yo won $3m in fortnite a few years ago, while still in school...
sc2 is the 7th game in the list of total earnings for a game, so consider that there's plenty of other games where players earn far less - and multiplayer ones are even worse
Great job PiG, thanks for that video. Cheers
The saddest story of all is life... He could be the goat
Great Video,
Thank you PiG!
Maybe there was a debate of who the goat is. But after this years IEM there can just not be any doubt. Serral is just the best we've seen.
Absolutly amazing video
i think we can all agree on 1 thing: zerg op
Very cool video Pig. If you have any other ideas for videos like this (history, discussing specific players) I'm sure many people would love to see them
Your production is OVER THE TOP! thanks Pig for this video, soooo well done!
These videos are dope :)
Nice little timeline, I would love to see more history focused videos from you, for all of us that didn't follow Starcraft as an esport before LotV.
Very cool Video
Awesome vid dude very well done
Awesome video!
Damn, the production value on this one. Well done PiG!
this must have been a pain in the ass to make, but the hard work shows through in the final product.
cheers mate! dot put in heaps of time compiling data, storyboarding and editing. she started this project a year ago!
@@PiGstarcraft and that is why !dot
this rules!
I know this isn't your typical video, and I am glad to see you getting well deserved positive feedback. As a person who loves data, I know how much time and effort this took to put together. What really sets it apart is your seamless tie-in highlight reel and your standout commentator expertise. Top tier work PiG. I can't wait to see where your content takes you in the future.
Underpaid. When only the most insane players can hit 1 mil after many years of dominance, you gotta say underpaid.
cool video pig gj
Did Life go to jail afterall?
according to liquipedia: On July 14, 2016, the sentence of 18 months of imprisonment suspended by three years and a fine of 70,000,000 KRW was reported. Additionally, an appeal for more lenient sentencing, which Life had filed earlier, was dismissed by the Changwon District Court.
Meh the totals are interesting enough but you should really do a side by side comparison equalizing payouts earned per tournament to also show who is/won/could be considered the best. Meh lets make it a 3 way comparison to show which player get how much vs how much they are forced to turn over to the "team" they play for.
I don't know of any SC2 players that share prize pool with their team these days - though definitely it was a dodgy practice quite common in the early days
@@PiGstarcraft I guess I worded that incorrectly I didn't much mean share with the team as like what percentage of the winnings does the sponsor take? Like team liquid, DPG etc. I certainly wouldn't expect the winner to have to give money to all his other teammates. that would be silly. The fact that you say it was a thing early on is insane.
What a drive down memory lane!!