There has been a lot of hatred toward WoW Gold as an E-Sport. You have washed up WOW players who can not make it in WOTLK hating on the game, and you have FPS/RTS players who saw their prize pool dwindle in size, or heaven forbid, their game dropped by tournament sponsors altogether about WoW Gold. At the end of the day, supply and demand rule the market. ESL took a pretty significant hit in popularity in mid-2008 according to Alexa rankings (not the best benchmark but still gives WoW Gold a decent trend), before they started running WOW tournaments and the site made a strong rebound since then. On a per-player basis, WoW Gold tournaments pay as good as any game outside of Korea, and apparently that WoW Gold is too much for pros from other games to handle. Sorry but your skills are as valuable as the market is willing to pay for it, not what your illusion of skill is. |