Parents Paying ‘Fortnite’ Tutors $20 an Hour to Help Their Children

Why not if you look at what professional gamers can make if they are good.
 
So this is the future? People graduating with degrees in social studies and in playing videogames?

My vision of the future just got a lot darker.
 
And here I was as a kid, unable to even convince my parents to drive me to Blockbuster....

Let alone pay for the game rental lol
 
How about paying them to read a damn book! Fortnite isn't going to be around in 10 years, the knowledge you gain from reading will be. Dumb parents raising dumb kids. The cycle continues.
 
Krenum said:
How about paying them to read a damn book! Fortnite isn't going to be around in 10 years, the knowledge you gain from reading will be. Dumb parents raising dumb kids. The cycle continues.
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You could say that about a lot of things that people pay money into in terms of education.
People who got virtually any sort of tech degree in 1995, saw an entirely different landscape 10 years later. However, the skills built upon doing those types of jobs in addition to the degree is what keeps them up to date.

Fortnite is a series of skills, many of which are transferable to other games. And the foundations built will continue to be important (gaming wise). As the games evolve, good players too will evolve. Similar once again to anything that happens in the tech industry.
Personally, I don't see this as any different than having your kid pay money to play soccer or some other sport. I could also make your same argument that it would likely be just as useless for adult living as any other form of game (Fortnite). Or perhaps another analogy is parents pushing their kids to be young actors or young entertainers (dancers, singers, models), which arguably streaming and building celebrity in the gaming world is about, just as much as it is about player ability. It all comes down to valuation. And while it doesn't necessarily make sense to you, it clearly does to others.

To be clear: I wouldn't pay for my kids to get tutored by a "gaming professional". But that doesn't mean I wouldn't allow them to invest in their hobby or teach them the skills necessary to get better at their hobby (like watching others and practicing skillsets).
 
any parent willing to pay others to tutor their kids in Fortnite must be addicted to video games as well...
 
UnknownSouljer said:
You could say that about a lot of things that people pay money into in terms of education.
People who got virtually any sort of tech degree in 1995, saw an entirely different landscape 10 years later. However, the skills built upon doing those types of jobs in addition to the degree is what keeps them up to date.

Fortnite is a series of skills, many of which are transferable to other games. And the foundations built will continue to be important (gaming wise). As the games evolve, good players too will evolve. Similar once again to anything that happens in the tech industry.
Personally, I don't see this as any different than having your kid pay money to play soccer or some other sport. I could also make your same argument that it would likely be just as useless for adult living as any other form of game (Fortnite). Or perhaps another analogy is parents pushing their kids to be young actors or young entertainers (dancers, singers, models), which arguably streaming and building celebrity in the gaming world is about, just as much as it is about player ability. It all comes down to valuation. And while it doesn't necessarily make sense to you, it clearly does to others.

To be clear: I wouldn't pay for my kids to get tutored by a "gaming professional". But that doesn't mean I wouldn't allow them to invest in their hobby or teach them the skills necessary to get better at their hobby (like watching others and practicing skillsets).
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I guess the point I was trying to make was, its better to know how to build a house in real life than to know how to build one in a videogame.
 
Krenum said:
I guess the point I was trying to make was, its better to know how to build a house in real life than to know how to build one in a videogame.
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You explained yourself well enough. It’s about valuation. There are plenty of programmers that can’t build a house. Or fix a toilet. Or change the oil on their car.

You consider that to be terrible. Others don’t based upon what they would rather spend their time on. And the skill sets they value or care about. Which is why I tried to explain in the last post about things like celebrity or doing jobs in entertainment even from a young age.
 
polonyc2 said:
any parent willing to pay others to tutor their kids in Fortnite must be addicted to video games as well...
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Depends. Maybe the kid really wanted it and that is their gift. Maybe the parents think their kid is that 1 in a billion that will shoot the the top (hur hur hur).

I think it is a waste of money but I think that about a lot of very popular things so /shrug.
 
Here's how to get better:

1.) Learn to play on PC
2.) Enable cross-play to play against console and phone users
3.) Easy wins
 
supastar1568 said:
Here's how to get better:

1.) Learn to play on PC
2.) Enable cross-play to play against console and phone users
3.) Easy wins
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What happens when you run into console players that are using keyboard and mouse but still get aim assist because they are on consoles. Not so easy wins then.
 
As long as these kids are active in other things, who cares? And we wonder why there are so many laws intruding on our rights to parent as we see fit, gossip like this is how it all starts.
 
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It's not really any different than paying for piano or golf lessons.

And paying for gaming lessons isn't anything new. $50/hr was common for StarCraft 2 lessons from top players in the US 8 years ago.
 
sharknice said:
It's not really any different than paying for piano or golf lessons.
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I guess, but I'd rather tell or show someone I could play Bach or 18 holes well, than being able to play a video game that isn't going to be around in 5 years. Plus the ladies like a good Piano player :) don't know many that are interested in Fortnite "Skills".
 
Krenum said:
I guess, but I'd rather tell or show someone I could play Bach or 18 holes well, than being able to play a video game that isn't going to be around in 5 years. Plus the ladies like a good Piano player :) don't know many that are interested in Fortnite "Skills".
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Taruth.
 
Krenum said:
I guess, but I'd rather tell or show someone I could play Bach or 18 holes well, than being able to play a video game that isn't going to be around in 5 years. Plus the ladies like a good Piano player :) don't know many that are interested in Fortnite "Skills".
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You act as if kids have the capacity to learn only one thing at a time....

And really? Already concerned about our kids getting laid or not?:LOL:
 
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Eshelmen said:
You act as if kids have the capacity to learn only one thing at a time....

And really? Already concerned about our kids getting laid or not?:LOL:
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Didn't say anything about getting laid, gotta get them on the right track to a good social standing early.
 
Krenum said:
I guess, but I'd rather tell or show someone I could play Bach or 18 holes well, than being able to play a video game that isn't going to be around in 5 years. Plus the ladies like a good Piano player :) don't know many that are interested in Fortnite "Skills".
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I mean my folks paid for guitar lessons for 4 years in grade school and i can't play for crap right now a few decades later so really if you're gonna blow the money anyways you might as well have it be something the kid is actually interested in.
 
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