Romain Rouillard 6:27 p.m., October 04, 2022
The greatest players of the famous game "Fortnite" amass millions of euros in earnings each season.
Enough to compete with the average salary of a player in the French football championship.
Revenues largely inflated by advertising on streaming platforms.
E-sport is becoming a highly lucrative discipline.
A study carried out by MoneyTransfers reveals that the best players pocket earnings that have nothing to envy to those of professional Ligue 1 footballers. million euros each season.
The study reveals in particular that 12 players of the famous game
Fortnite
earned more than one million euros each last season.
Kyle Giersdorf, the best of them, received the tidy sum of 3.6 million euros.
What to approach or even exceed the average salary of Ligue 1 players which amounts, according to
L'Équipe
, to around 100,000 euros per month.
A figure that drops to 67,000 euros if we exclude Paris Saint-Germain and its staggering payroll.
Revenue linked to growing popularity
To reach such sums, these e-sport players rely on the growing popularity of their discipline, whose audiences have skyrocketed in recent years.
In turn, their income from advertising also increases.
According to MoneyTransfers, Kyle Giersdorf pockets 190,000 euros each year through this on Twitch and YouTube.
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Some esports competitions offer head-spinning rewards like the 2019
Fortnite
World Cup which promised earnings of 30 million euros for all of its duo or solo competitions .
"This review of the data shows just how lucrative gaming can be and may help convince the public that it's a legitimate career choice," says MoneyTransfers CEO Jonathan Merry.