“I thought, this is amazing. People in the Philippines are earning double what they could in a regular job just from playing this game.”
Sky Mavis). Many of them are part of scholarships or “guilds.” Players rent out their accounts to each other, sharing usernames and passwords, as part of manager-worker relationships organized over Discord. In’s Discord, dozens of workers “apply” for positions every 10 minutes, sharing why they should be hired, what their gaming experience is, and how good their internet connection is.
“Right now, we have something like 5,400 scholars. Next year, this time, we want to be in the hundreds of thousands,” says Dizon. So far, his bet seems to have paid off: YGG was the recipient of an Andreessen Horowitz-led funding round of $4.6 million in August. In a blog post , the firm waxed philosophical about the actual definition of what a “job” is—and how the concept is evolving because of crypto and gaming. In Dizon’s opinion,and similar titles are not even in the same league as other video games. “These games are actually competing [for players] with other forms of gig work—like Uber, or Grab or Gojek, where you're delivering food for someone and get paid a small amount for it,” he says.
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