What is it like for a woman trying to make it in esports?
At the FIFA Museum in Zurich, 24 women from around the world have a safe space to play their favourite video game. But when they switch on their consoles at home, their experience is very different“I’ve had to deal with people where someone’s had a death threat and it’s a real-life threat that the police had to investigate,” says Nas Baig, founder of ECL Entertainment, an organisation dedicated to providing women with more opportunities in the world of esports.
Some players at the event were signed to professional teams, meaning they are paid a wage and given money to invest in building their squad in Ultimate Team, the game mode in which esports players compete. To get ahead in Ultimate Team, they need FIFA points, which can either be gathered over time by playing or bought with real money to get quicker access to better players. Professional teams sometimes give players money to help them do that.
On the subject of payments from esports teams, one source, an expert in the industry — who, like a cited in this piece, spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect their professional relationships — said that their experience was professional women in esports being paid £350-£750, while men got £2,000-£10,000.Hall used to work as a teacher and project manager but now works in esports full-time creating content and broadcasting at professional FIFA tournaments.
When women stream their FIFA content, they are often targeted with abuse. It is common for women to receive sexually violent messages, sometimes death threats, when streaming their content, according to a source speaking to“If you’re on Twitch, people will set up an account and send you horrific messages,” says Baig. “If you block them, they’ll go and set up another one. We had a female player who said that one person set up 15 accounts in the space of a month and kept sending horrific messages.
She adds: “There are a lot of young people who make comments who might not have the same life experience and enjoy being rude on the internet,” says Hall. “It’s a scary space for women.”
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