[Misc] BTEC National Extended Certificate... in eSports

Han Solo said:

Plenty of ex-pro-gamers end up in the games industry.

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Possibly as testers or promo streamers / twitchers. An ability to play a (narrow selection of) games at pro level doesn't make you a games dev

dazzer6666 said:

Imagine there must be dozens of roles, some presumably more suited to the less academically-able ?

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All the biggest game producers like Blizzard, Riot, EA and so forth employ pro-gamers in game design roles because they've often spent like 10k hours playing the game and some of them are intelligent enough to pick up what constitutes good game design and what doesn't. They don't necessarily know programming but they know what the players appreciate and what they don't feel as good about.

It isn't much stranger than ex-footballers becoming coaches and whatnot despite not having some academic education in teaching or sports science.

maffew said:

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Konami code?

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Still could never beat Super Probotector without my big brother’s help, even with that bloody code