I been telling people at work and they don’t want to believe me. Video gaming and posting on social media are going to regular full time jobs with health insurance and some form of retirement package. The ad and sponsorship revenue from these markets is insane.
If blizzard makes this season successful even more sponsors, higher salaries, etc will come into play.
What we know so far:
-each player is on a $50-300k base salary
-each player gets health care + retirement plans from Blizzard
-$4.5 million in extra prize winnings (incentives)
What you think this whole thing cost Blizzard? $10-15 million between all costs?
But they released team skins, its $5 per hero skin, to buy an entire team set skin for the heroes its $100. 12 teams ($1200 to own all the team colors).
Not many will spend $1200 or even the $100 but many will buy 1-2 skins to support the team/player.
My guess: theyll make $50 million from the skin sales alone, not including the actual skins already in the game, an addition few million from extra copies the game sells from the buzz of the tournament + the $20 million from sponsors like HP, Jack in the box, etc.
Blizzard boutta make $70-100 million revenue off this 1st season alone probably
Spend $15 million to make $100 million brehs
Think outside the box brehs
