@@kaz6854 lol when did we say we are jealous? The op literally commented that he probably makes a lot more through his brand deals and me and the other dude talked about him having shares and ownership. How is that jealousy ?
Some more info on faker's $$: -the amount doesnt include personal brand deals/ads (e.g razer etc) -lots is spent on charities/investment (real estate - faker tower in seoul) -he said a few years ago that his monthly spending costs only about ~170usd since housing, foods and other expenses are paid by the org. -theres also reports that his salary is paid directly by the parent company (not the esport org) so it doesnt affect the salaries of his teammates.
The craziest thing? His brand value definitely exceeds that. Not to mention, he was literally oferred blank checks by foreign teams, but willingly chose lower salary to stay in korea.
@@TPixelAdventures a good player knows in a team game it matters more how the entire team mesh together and not just individual high skilled players going rambo. So what if he took the 10 mil played with someone hes not comfortable with and had mediocre success. He could milk that 10 mil for a season or two or he could milk 6 mil for 10 years with stable teams he can natively communicate with and knows.
@@TPixelAdventures By the time your salary is that high, a 4 million boost (as massive as it seems to us regular humans) just isn't worth a decrease in the quality of life stuff you can't buy with money. Family, friends, familiar places and food don't go away cause you're "just" making 6 million a year. And that's without even considering any Korean pride. If people want *any* hope of getting a guy like Faker to switch regions, they'd have to pay more than even he's worth and add a zero or two.
@@stargazing209 Anything where you can get away with paying million dollar saleries, is not irrelevant. Sure, it's relative, but if you call something that'll get a yearly viewership of almost (if not) 2 digit million unique viewers (not concurrent), irrelevant? I think that's just wrong.
If someone were to scale up Faker's salary to what Dmitri showed as an example, then it's exactly comparable. Sure, there's like 2 digits missing, but he's essentially getting PAID as much as the sportsball guys.
He deserves it. He may not be the best player now but Faker is a brand himself, and he is marketable. He collab with an eyewear brand and it was sold out right away, his chair collab with Secret Lab are also being bought even outside of korea, and the ahri skin worth 500$ each, earned $600k in an hour. The lotte ice cream with Faker's face before reported 15% increase in sales the moment they released it. so yeah, he may no longer be the best in macro and mechanics, but he still brings the most money, his games gets the highest views at LCK even if T1 is no longer the best, same with worlds. So like him or hate him, League of Legends need him more than he needs this game.
He deserves it for all that he’s done for the game. And honestly 6 mil is still life changing money. Not to mention, usually players get paid based on the portion agreed upon by a sports league and the players union aka the CBA. Basically how the league dispenses the annual earnings. And usually NFL/NBA players get paid a lot because their leagues make so much money. I wonder how much of the CBA is Faker’s salary because it’s safe to say the LCK doesn’t bring as nearly much money as the NBA/NFL do so Faker’s 6 million might actually be much much more valuable relative to other sports contracts.
The method you mentioned of how athletes are paid is mostly an American thing. Most sports team around the world don't pay their athletes like that. Like yeah, these teams get money from the league through broadcasting rights and stuff, but that money goes directly to the team. And the team pays their players out of their own pockets. Obviously the team has many sources of income such as sponsorship and investment from owners and stuff but yeah, they pay players with whatever money they have. It's also why American teams have a higher value and are overall safer to run than most sports teams around the world.
Imagine Faker earnings is more than 6 million dollars even DOTA2 players can't achieve and have to win the tournament first. He is just playing a game and he earned a massive amount of money.
@@globalist6574 faker is one of the four national treasures of korea. This man saved Korean E-Sports and is a outstanding person and player with a extremly focus training. Back then he played like other korean 10h+ a day to get better. name one with university degree who works 70-80h a week under high pressure without getting burnout
Looking at that top earnings list, it's crazy how DotA is dominated by mostly Europeans yet they can't find any EU talent that can beat CN and KR in League.
From someone who has followed Faker’s career from S6 till date, I’m not surprised by the salary. Faker set his own brand value aside from the League of Legends competitive scene. Faker pulls max viewership in every match he plays. There’s an aura of his accomplishments which draws ex LoL players like myself to watch the competitive matches and be up to date about what’s meta and what isn’t. All in all, Faker earned this with his ups and his downs. With his fans and his haters.
Bro, I didn't expect Rob dillingham to be in this short he was in my school throughout elementary and middle wtf. Btw he was a hella good in the early days and still is.
@@wtfdude1830 cuz lol is comparable to ml bro faker is comparable to normal ass ml players too 🗣️ goat my ass league is trash pro scenes got nothing to watch
World champions of the nba in 1990 Detroit pistons salary was 13 million. Today's pistons salary is 129 million. They didn't win 20 games or compete for a playoff spot. That's over 900% increase in pay for a non title run. Waiting for the 🎈 to pop
The reason why faker's salary is 'at least' $6m is because he was receiving the highest salary for domestic pro-sports player in Korea 2022. The amount is still confidential, but we knew #2 was former MLB pitcher KK who's salary was $6m(to avoid upcoming salary-cap in KBO)
Salary is in relation to how much the team / organization is making. Like Ohtani in baseball, the high salary is worth it because the ad revenue and sponsor deals Faker brings in are just $$$ for the org.
mate is the face of the org to any gamer, is a international legend within LOL. he brings hella free publicity by remaining in T1 by just existing. thats why he receives so much. also if im not mistaken he owns part of T1 esports branch
What's more ludicrous: LPL (the Chinese league) allegedly tried to poach him with a salary several times as much as what he is speculated to be earning in T1 rn.
I'm mainly a League player, but I love that the whole OG squad's on top of that list. As a Faker/T1 fan, I think his salary's well deserved... so long as it doesn't affect his teammates salaries.
Man honestly with 6 Milly nothing could go wrong, you can easely live luxuriously with no money shortage, As long as ones eating good, sleeping good, and happy without money shortage more ammount of money is not really necessary
Faker probably earns more from just brand deals alone, compared to his annual salary. Don’t forget he literally own a part of T1 as well. Faker’s actual net worth has got to be in triple digit millions at this point.
the thing is that money is probably lot smaller than his other sources of income. not to mention he rejected offers from chinese teams who offered much more money to stay in t1
He is one of the biggest brands in esports. If anyone is worth that much it's him. His influence is insane. He could retire tomorrow and he would still be worth more in brand deals than most other players combined
I mean, bro win 4/8 world tournament he participated at. Most esport players would be grateful if they can win 1 or 2 trophy if they joined 8 worlds tournament, but faker statistically have 50% chance to win world's. So statistically speaking, he had the best possibility to win the next worlds compared to other players
Well, how much money does he bring to the team against how much the team would have without him? Just like Hamilton going to Ferrari for 46 millions, Ferrari's share went up 15% the week it was announced, which is 2 billion.
To perform in the game is one thing, but he is also insane for advertisement too. Did you see the amount of ads have faker in it, compare to literally any other players in any game.
Name one person who has more world championships wins? 😂 Name one person who stuck to the same team through thick and thin? Name one person who carries the tremendous weight of an organization on his back like Faker? T1 is Faker.
That is extremely worth it, not to mention the winnings, brand deals and ventures he owns. South Korea puts him up to the likes of Heung Min Son of Tottenham Hotspurs, Director Bong Joon Ho and Idols BTS. He is a household name for South Korea.
Fun Fact: There's actually a building called Faker Tower in Seoul(?) South Korea. How do I know this? Because I'm Korean and lived in Korea for my first 10 years of my life.
That’s just his salary, Faker is also very popular so he probably has sponsors and endorsements just for him, on top of his prize earnings and team sponsors.
Honestly this just showed me the insane amounts of money other pro sports have in their industries to be throwing 500,000,000+ contracts around to individual players. Imagine how much money the teams giving out those contracts must be raking in
Well, thinking about the fact that he is the most recognizable lol player, probably the best, the most influential and the most accomplished, its a low salary but thinking that is this much for playing video games at the comfort pf their home with no risk of health issues compared to sports, its a high salary for doing basically entertainment that’s easier than most physical or mental demanding jobs. Compare to what some professionals have to do on their jobs or to become professionals and never see anything close to this amount of money to a job that is “meaningless “ if you take in consideration the direct impact and value to the society (not thinking about jobs that the structure to promote him will generate)
I wouldn’t down play the difficulty of being pro in a video game as much as you are. Idk if it’s intentional with the way you said it, but just because it may not be the standard form of “mentally challenging” as with solving differential equations does not mean it is easy. Like streamers are a better example of what you’re trying to say because they don’t need strategy meetings planning with their coaches and teammates practicing against others pros or anything and still make a bag. Pros on the other hand have to keep up with every patch note or addition to the game see how it will change the meta as a whole, guess and plan around how the enemies will plan also and obviously keep their skills sharp and be adaptable to whatever new thing becomes meta.
Plus on top of all that, he’s owns equity of the org as well, he can basically retire at any point and have enough money to do fuck all for the rest of his life.
