1 First step that lead to a thousand miles journey

Gaming

Activity that can be seen as both glorious and useless

Since the very beginning of Pong, the first videogame ever created. This little thing serves the purpose of entertainment very well right from the beginning, more games had been created Nintendo, Arcade games, and many more. The graphics and features also evolute, the game had been a very entertaining thing for many people to relax. Up until it's starting to become competitive, more people are participating. More prize money. More audience.

And Esports exist.

In the early era of Esports, the pro-players purpose was just to support themselves by doing something they passionate about. But as the industry grew, More money is getting involved. Pro-players become more popular to the point that they even gain more fame than movie stars.

But there's also the dark side of this industry, Some gamers that are retired without any skills left or any backup plan will fall into an abyss. Since their greatest time of youth had spent on gaming already, they haven't practice any skills to support their career, nobody would hire them for a decent job they can do, some end up being a blue-collar worker or a part-time employee.

Especially when the average time of Esports player career life span only lasts about 5 years. Not to mention players that their skills are not advanced enough to compete with others, losing or winning can mean tomorrow of their contact with sponsors. If their skills are decreasing, it could mean they can get bullied by other players, or even have no chance of rising up after the fall.

This is Esports, If you really love games, you must accept everything that games gave you. Happiness, Sorrow, Joy, Tears, Pleasure, Pain...

And you will become a true gamer

A gamer with excellent skill may be a talented gamer but not always a good gamer, good gamers are the ones that can enjoy games without letting it interfere with or dominate important things in their lives or mess up their priorities, in other words, they manipulate the games not letting the games manipulate them. Gamers that manage to keep the important thing of their life balance elegantly and gaining glory from the games are the true gamers.

But the great gamers...

They are the ones who use glory from games to lead them into glory in the real life.

Genius doesn't replace experience. It's not how much you gain, it's how much you got to keep...

Click!

A sound from a small hand inserting an ID card for the avatar into the card reader inside the internet cafe.

Back then, they use to have an ID boosting in some popular games. This kind of behavior can affect the ranking system directly, since the ranking system is designed to let players who have a close level of skills compete, the ID boosting where a noob can pay a pro to play for them can destroy this entire system. A noob can have a high rank with a skill of a chicken on the fierce battlefield, skillful players will eventually get bored and frustrated to compete with these kinda noobs and that will ruin the game. So they used an ID card to authenticate the player's identity, where they will need both a physical game ID card and password to log in. This may not solve the entire ID boosting completely, but it had been decreasing, because only a few would invest in sending their ID card and give away their password to the pro somewhere that could be another country, risking not having it back.

she doesn't have a PC of her own yet, so she comes here to play for maybe a few hours. She had just created her avatar a few days ago and still new to this game.

After she types in the password and login to the game. She pulls out a small blue-collar that looks like a neckless from her backpack and puts it around her neck. This is a plug-in to connect your nerves to the system of the game. This little device will let you feel about 50% senses of your avatar inside "Peace" the only Massively Multiplayer Online game that can monopoly the gaming market.

Players that can't effort the 100% VR helmet or console will use this device to give them an in-game experience. It will send information from your avatar to your brain so you can really feel like you are your avatar with very advanced technology. When using headphones, you can hear everything inside the game just like a reality. They can also see everything in the games float out of the 2D screen while using this device.

But since this is a 50% senses version, she will still feel her finger tapping keyboard and her hand clicking mouse.

After she put on her device and headphone, she can feel her avatar's body as if it's her other body. You can use your mind to control the avatar's body to do some moves that the mouse and keyboard can't inside the game, you can also use the mouse and keyboard to command some moves that your brain can't imagine too.

It seems like a huge valley in some tundra field that she is standing on, she can feel both the gaming chair she really sits in and her avatar's feet standing on the huge valley with the whole scenery that flew out of the computer screen.

"Little white cat, Thanks for letting me use your body to play this amazing game" she whispers.