How much do computer gamer make on a yearly average? Guild Wars mainly. What should i go to school to study?

What should i take in college and where should i start. Do they make a good living and how long would i be in school.





plzzz help|||It's called a Software Engineer.





http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+be鈥?/a>|||Its a shaky career choice. But if you're REALLY good and win all the major competitions, you can probably make 500,000 to a million every year. I'm not so sure about guild wars though.





And you don't really need to go to school to learn, just hang out with the best and learn.|||If you are talking developing games, you'll usually start at around $50-60k for programmers and $30k for anything else. Bear in mind that most video game developers in the US (including ArenaNet) are in southern or central California, where the cost of living is high, and for a few months a year, you'll be expected to work around 60 hours a week.





To get in, you pretty much need a degree anymore. For the Programming side, either a Game programming degree from a place like Full Sail or DeVry, or a Bachelor's in Computer Science from any university. But those won't really get you in the door, generally. Those don't prove that you can work on a team at all. The best way to get iun is to get a group of aspiring game developers together and build a demo game yourselves and shop it around. Normally, if someone likes your game, they will hire the entire team and put you all on the team to turn it into a full game. For other positions in the industry, a Comp Sci minor with a major in whatever specific discapline you are going to do would be good.





If you are talking about being a professional gamer, schooling really isn't a factor, aside form having something to fall back on when you almost assuredly fail. Outside of South Korea, where online gaming is huge (and most of their TV game shows are based around playing video games), only a few hundred people in the world can manage to earn enough to make a living on it. There just aren't enough big-money competitions. Fatal1ty, the most well-known professional gamer in the world, earned $250K as his biggest yearly earnings, but most of that was free PC equipment and clothing from sponsors; he estimates only about $60k of it (much of which would have been appearance fees due to his fame) was actual cash which could be used on bills. And as soon as your game of choice falls out of favor, you have to try to become the best at another game or find a new job.





As far as Im's aware, only ArenaNet's official tournaments (which occur twice a year) exist for making money in Guild Wars. If you manage to be on the winning team, you get to split $100k either 8 or 10 ways (depending on if your team feels the alternates deserve a share).