Guild Wars 2

Your analogy sucks ronpierce.

Football players get paid because of their value as entertainers and to sponsors. That’s why only the top % get paid, and much of the money comes from people who do other productive parts of society (fueling the economy by creating goods, like the farmers in PvE).

So what you really should be looking for are ways for PvE players to pay you to play. Leagues, Tournaments, and other stuff where PvE players can buy tickets to see you, make bets off of you, or somehow else spend money on you to earn some amount of value or entertainment from you playing in return. If no one in-game wants to subsidize you playing, then find someone outside of the game.

ANet does give out gems to the winners of the weekly ESL and Mistpedia tournaments. Win those regularly and hey, you have a decent income earned similarly to football players.

Viking Jorun.5413:

eSports, everybody.

They should just release gw1 prophecies (with some of the early balancing of course) as a standalone GvG/HA/RA/TA format or even just GvG.

This game just isn’t built for being an esport. There’s a reason no one has invented Soccer, MMA Style! At a certain point complexity is a huge deterrent.

League of Legends → less skills, no action combat, defined roles. It doesn’t matter if you like or dislike it. There are many reasons why it’s popular and the game being the simplest DOTA style game out there is one of those reasons.