Let me introduce you my background before I explain my purpose to contact you. I lived in one of South-East Asian's third-world country, I grew up in broken family. My parents had divorced and I never met my father since. I lived with my mother and my two sisters in poor envinronment. When I was in highshool, I have a plan that if I graduated, I want to get a job as soon as possible because I want to get out from this situation. But my mom told me that I have to go college/university because I'm the only son she has. A while moment later, we were told that my father has deceased. He left us one house as his inheritance. I was 15 years old in that moment, so my mom was handling the legal. She never told me the amount, but she promised me that I can go to college with that money. I lived in decent life in my first year. Then she limited my expenditure slowly but sure like I was poor. Until I realized that he put all the money from my dad's inheritance, my money included, in some kind of stock-trade organization that I believed is a gambling place, and she lost it all. I was mad, depressed, sad because of it. I couldn't tell any of my friends because in this country we have social ethic that told us that mother always been a holy, noble figure. I'm fighting over a years I had my second and third years in poor condition and in that period, I found Dota 2. I found my cure to heal my emotion. I'm grateful for it and I'm inlove with it. Then my final year comes (last September), a year when I need stable support for doing my final-assigment/mini-thesis, my mom and my sisters suddenly threw my life. They never would send me money. I couldn't get a decent job because I have to finish my final work. I dont have friends to tell. I dont have anything and anyone to help. I commited suicide in last October. My roommate saved me and I'm forced to told him everything. He then told my story to some of my friends and they only helped me to finish my final works until this July.
But I realized that being a Dota 2 pro player is my only dream. It's just I never have a chance to give my 100% focus and mind to Dota 2. I was distracted. I used Dota 2 only for my drug. I want to play Dota 2 as a sport. I believed I have what it takes to be a Dota 2 pro player if I give all of my life to it.
There are three possible way to fulfill my dream: 1. Train and play on my country. But it has low chance since my country never step on world-tier pro team and SEA environment is kinda toxic. 2. Moved to Chinese or Korea and training there. But I can't speak their languange. 3. Moved to any first-world country such as America or any Europe country and training.
Only 1 and 3 are the most possible way that I want to take, but the only problem that I don't have enough asset/equity.
Hereby I'm asking for any of your help, to loan approximately 10.000$ or less, so I can training in 1-1,5 year? I'm aware that I can get that amount of money if I work conventionally in 3 years, but I dont want to waste my time on something that I hated on. This my last attempt to reach my dream because my crazy mind told me to sell my organ to get that money.
I know I will receive many negative stuff, but I'm grateful if you guys can help me and appreciate it, even though you helped me in another way. I can assure that this isn't a scam.
I think money is only a figment built up from regular entertainment and ofc, society. this is personal to me, but i had lived several years on the bare minimum, being sad and clutching tightly onto hope.
if i had taken care of myself properly, even forced myself into doing things i wasn't as passionate about, i'd be objectively doing much better right now.
i don't know if 10,000 is practical at all, i am leaning towards not. now, i don't think you need money to achieve your dream in a timely fashion, and i don't think you need to depend on dota 2. if you found dota 2, chances are that there's something even greater and better out there. dota, or gaming for that matter is a hobby for a profession.
there are also people skills involved that take years to build up. as an english speaker, i regret to say that i would not be able to team up with someone who wasn't at least very expressive and concise with english.
i will tell you this. this is just the start of something if you want to truly pursue pro dota. just the beginning. there is no fast-track unless you get lucky, which to be fair, can be earned by putting yourself in a position to get lucky. however, that path can also very well lead to failure.
what i'm trying to say is that there are other possibilities that are even more likely. like picking/forming your own talent and giving them what it takes to be on a team that wins with you. again, this takes a long time and the success doesn't depend solely on you. you will become a better player, and will have better people skills because through it, but money, will not come.
i wish you the best, but my opinion is that you need to look beyond yourself for other ways/things; all the possibilities beyond moving a straight path to becoming a pro. you need to look at other people who have the same dream as you and see that they're suffering and broke, not because of skill or teammates alone, because comparatively, the people succeeding have had circumstances culminating in that they don't (and probably never needed) DotA/gaming to survive.
the more desperate you are, the more likely you are to get swindled, taken advantage of, or cheated yet again.
The problem with you asking for money in a loan is that the chance of a return of investment is extremely low. It is much more akin to a donation since the majority of professional Dota players never make 10k above living expenses. Which would mean that you would have to pay it back after failing to earn it in Dota and working a normal job for 5 years or whatever it takes.
The above assumes you honestly want to give it back and will do your all for it. Honestly speaking the likelihood of it being a scam is higher than that. Then there also the real risk of you not being able to ever pay the money back since inflation increases the amount faster than your living allows paying off.
I wish you the best of luck with going pro (if that is what you want).
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If somebody wants to give him money in a loan and not as a donation get a lot of information from him. Real name (picture of him, id card and identifier you came up with), address, whatever else you can get. Since the sums are big consider if taxes are a factor on both ends and solve that. I would probably prefer sending to a bank account in his name over paypal or similar where it is harder to connect the account to the person. Finally accept that you have a high chance of never seeing the money again.
Just go to school and finish up. Your chances of going pro are absolutely minimal to none. EE is the only person I knew who was successful at it, and even prior to becoming a top flight pro he was already at the top of the game in HoN and a top tier level pub player in DotA. Unless you're playing at 6.5k+ I wouldn't even bother thinking about going pro.
On February 17 2017 21:25 superstartran wrote: Just go to school and finish up. Your chances of going pro are absolutely minimal to none. EE is the only person I knew who was successful at it, and even prior to becoming a top flight pro he was already at the top of the game in HoN and a top tier level pub player in DotA. Unless you're playing at 6.5k+ I wouldn't even bother thinking about going pro.
To add to this, if you have the mind set and talent to go pro you will be climbing the ladder quickly even in the little time you have over on the weekends. If that isn't happening it is doubtful you will make it to pro anyway.
If you do make it I will be happy for you but the majority does not.
You are not asking for help to achieve your dream; you are asking for help to "get a chance" to achieve your dream. Lots of people having both skills and money do not achieve their dream due to various other factors beyond their control. Life is not so easy and the field you are hoping to succeed in is very cutthroat. One more advise I would like to give from my personal experience is that it is very easy to get engrossed in a thought of success or a dream. But the journey towards success is more important than success itself. Who knows in that journey, you might find something other than Dota 2 that you like more. Going all-in on just one outcome in such a competitive profession on it's own is very risky let alone asking for help from strangers for it.