While I think the idea is kind of cool, how do you expect to make a living, let alone afford rent by just streaming and playing in tournaments?
Even the most popular streamers (ie. Ninja) pull in, at most, 1200 viewers. And this many viewers is a rarity, it only occurs during a showmatch of some kind at peak stream-viewing hours.
Something that would yield a financial situation as rocky as this would demand investor support. Otherwise, the financial burden would fall on the players in the house and yourself, which isn’t exactly a situation you’re going to want to be in. This also leads to another issue: who would want to invest in something that, in all likelihood, will yield no returns?
Competitive Halo might not see any more tournaments beyond the Dallas one this coming November, so where do you expect to be making your money if Halo 4 doesn’t feature in any major tournaments?
Also, playing Halo for 8 hours every day would definitely cut into the players’ free time. Would the players be given time to socialize or would they be forced to be dedicated until the team disbands? Right now, this looks a like a pretty awful 9-5 job with no weekends off, and that’s a problem. Also, it’s important to note that this job will probably have worse hours because most of your competition won’t start playing Halo until 9 or 10 at night (6 or 7 for you guys because you’ll be playing on the West Coast).
Even more, what do you expect to get out of practicing for 8 hours a day when other high-caliber teams aren’t playing during the same times. Will you just search matchmaking together or will you be running “drills”? If you will be running “drills”, how will you keep your team focused? Because the thought of running “drills” in Halo seems incredibly boring to me, especially if it’s being done for hours on end, day after day.
One more thing: does a game as simple as Halo 4 really require a team house for players to achieve success? I can understand it for games like League of Legends where the metagame is constantly changing and is incredibly deep, but Halo is just a simple FPS. All you have to do in Halo is aim properly and push up when you get guys down. Other than that, there is a little bit of spawn prediction and weapon timing. The game is almost entirely based on situational awareness after that, and that’s a hard concept to teach.
Anyways, I hope you’re successful in your endeavors, but I’d like to see you reveal a little bit more to whoever might be interested before you ask them to join you. Otherwise,they may find themselves in positions where they are stuck in an expensive house with no real job with people that they don’t truly enjoy the company of. And I would hate to see that happen to anyone, especially kids(who make up the majority of Halo players) that are just starting their lives.
Again, good luck!
I wish I could be a part of that just for the experience and to be able to visit my hometown again even if nothing comes of it. I wish you good luck, Boss, and I hope the training goes well.
