I feel sorry for my underclassmen, my fellow StarCraft players that came after me. “I’m sad and I’m really sorry because I think, did I retire too early? That kind of thought comes in my mind. When nobody’s getting 100 million in StarCraft while LoL is getting a lot, it’s really sad.” “Another thing I was sad about was when someone compared the salaries in League of Legends and StarCraft. I think even if I still played wouldn’t have gone down because KT Rolster really liked me.” “I will say it straight out, even when I retired from StarCraft 2, I made over 100 million. That’s what the salary is, no matter how well you do.”Īt the time of writing, 75 million won equates to USD $63,862. The most a person gets is 75,000,000, maybe. When this became a reality I really missed when ” The reality is that had to invest mostly in League of Legends. Even though he’s doing really well, it’s a sad reality that he’s only making 70 million won. It is primarily used as a welding gun using a high voltage electrical burst, however, it can be used as an impromptu shotgun to clear out lightly armored units in an arc in front of its user. “When I retired, I was so sad when I heard this. The most regrettable thing, Zest was really awesome, right? It doesn’t matter how good you are, in StarCraft 2 set the pay cap to 70 million won, they’re not going to give you more than that,” Flash said. “Now that I’m done with StarCraft, I can talk about it. These administrators wanted to invest more money into League of Legends instead.
In the video, he claims that administrators of several pro teams limited the money that players could earn in StarCraft 2. We’ve translated segments of the footage here. Rain is exempted from army for liver donation to his father, and Larva is exempted due to tons of health reasons. 205 also sounds like FlaSh's korean name if spoken out in korean with FlaSh's name being Lee Young-Ho and 205 sounding like Ee young-Oh, so its pretty nice coincidence.
Former StarCraft pro Lee “Flash” Young-ho has revealed some new information about South Korean esports organizations, specifically how they allegedly capped StarCraft 2 professional player salaries at 70 million won ($59,669).įlash first revealed the information during a live stream segment on Afreeca TV titled “Eating, drinking room” that has since been uploaded to YouTube. FlaSh will be returning 2/05 2023 it seems.