Video games are far too addicting. Take it from someone who use to compete in Halo its not worth it. A couple guys at the top have good lives from it. But your chances are literally better of being a professional athlete than being a top gamer in Halo, CS, Star Craft, WoW, LoL simply because the pool of people is so much larger that are truly aspiring and putting in the time for that.
There's little money, little social proof, and it leads to very unusual hours which is not beneficial in any way.
If your going to play, play occasionally, set out 1 hour a day maximum to play. They can be so addicting. Have I made some in real life friends from gaming yes. But, I could have made far more in real life friends if I wasn't playing so many video games as a young kid between 13 and 18. Take this from someone whose been #1 in the world on XBL in multiple games. Getting tons of props from other gamers may feel good and give you tons of confidence as a youth but it doesn't carry over to the real world very well. Granted I haven't been really hardcore into gaming in more than 5 years so maybe some things have changed.
On a couple occasions I even played at house parties after tons of dudes literally begging to see me play. While that gets tons of props from guys it certainly will not help you on the girl frontier.
As a side note, despite my former love of video games I do very well on a professional basis, social basis and with women now. I went from being a lousy student who did lousy with chicks to being bilingual, with a 6 + figure salary guaranteed upon graduation and have had harems with girls I could've only dreamed of just 5 or 6 years ago.
There's little money, little social proof, and it leads to very unusual hours which is not beneficial in any way.
If your going to play, play occasionally, set out 1 hour a day maximum to play. They can be so addicting. Have I made some in real life friends from gaming yes. But, I could have made far more in real life friends if I wasn't playing so many video games as a young kid between 13 and 18. Take this from someone whose been #1 in the world on XBL in multiple games. Getting tons of props from other gamers may feel good and give you tons of confidence as a youth but it doesn't carry over to the real world very well. Granted I haven't been really hardcore into gaming in more than 5 years so maybe some things have changed.
On a couple occasions I even played at house parties after tons of dudes literally begging to see me play. While that gets tons of props from guys it certainly will not help you on the girl frontier.
As a side note, despite my former love of video games I do very well on a professional basis, social basis and with women now. I went from being a lousy student who did lousy with chicks to being bilingual, with a 6 + figure salary guaranteed upon graduation and have had harems with girls I could've only dreamed of just 5 or 6 years ago.