Suck at gaming? Get a tutor (seriously)

[leunas]

The Wall Street Journal reports on some gamers who're using their 733t skillz to actually pay the billz. And they're not trotting out the same old story about professional gamers (we get it, they play games!), they're talking about gaming tutors.

The logic behind these enterprises is brilliant though. Aging gamers have no time to hone their skills through trial and error while high school dropouts, like Gaming-lessons.com's Tom Taylor, have nothing but time, so the arrangement works like this: you pay Taylor $45 clams an hour, he turns your pasty, corpulent game playing attempts into 100% chiseled, Master Chief-approved fragging skillz.

We know what you're thinking. If 8 year old Lil Poison is scraping in $25 an hour teaching grown men to play Halo 2, then you've made some serious miscalculations in your life plan. We're wondering why, if these guys are so good, they aren't playing professionally. Does the old adage, "Those who can't do, teach," apply to the curriculum of video games as well?



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[The Admin]

that would be sad, if it wasn't brilliant, selling Gaming advice, smart idea, buying a game, then paying someone to teach you how to play it, not so smart idea.

If you don't have the time to LEARN the game, you shouldn't BUY the game (as much as that is bad advice, given our profession...)

[newgenious]

This is not really shocking to me, i remember when I heard that Japan had classes in school on how to play Virtua Fighter 2.