Hire a Game Coach Online 179
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Expert videogame players, many of them teens, are forging professional careers as coaches, finding clients — many of them in their 20s or 30s — online, the Wall Street Journal reports. Some gigs pay $65 an hour. From the article: 'Gaming-lessons.com says its youngest "Halo 2" instructor is 8-year-old New Yorker Victor De Leon III — better known by his online gamer name, Lil Poison — who has given several lessons a month since late last year, fitting the classes in after he has done his homework. His father, also named Victor, says his son has used some of the money he earns from lessons (hourly rate: $25) to buy a hamster, named Cortana after a character in the game.'"
community-based and bot-based help (Score:3, Interesting)
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Too bad it's just shooters (Score:5, Interesting)
Wow. (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:waste of money (Score:1, Interesting)
Anyway, I remember being somewhat amazed that any human being knew the layout of the land of Hyrule as well as the guy I talked to. I think I was looking for the ice wand or the fire wand or something, and he just rattled it off like he was giving directions to the supermarket. "Oh sure, you just go up past the third palace in the dark world, the one with the grappling hook, make a left on the outer rim of Lake Hylia, go past the Enchanted Forest..." and so on. I remember it being a very surreal experience. It did help me beat the game though.
I didn't get transferred to a Zelda expert or anything either and there was no delay like he was looking it up, so he almost certainly had the same level of knowledge of at least several other games.
Re:Why? (Score:1, Interesting)
Fairly useless (Score:2, Interesting)