What are the employment prospects for esports majors?

E-sports is one of the most explosive industries in the current sports industry. According to official data from the Game Working Committee of the China Music and Digital Association, the total sales revenue of China's game market in 2020 was 278.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of more than 20%. Among them, the e-sports game market increased by 44%, accounting for half of the game market. With the promotion of emerging technologies, national policy support and the increasingly standardized e-sports industry, the scale of my country's e-sports market will continue to rise steadily in the future.

From a revenue perspective, China's e-sports game market sales revenue in 2020 was 136.5 billion yuan, with an average annual compound growth rate of 28.3% from 2016 to 2020, and is expected to exceed 180 billion yuan in 2021 . From a user perspective, the number of e-sports users in China has increased from 310 million in 2016 to 480 million in 2020, with an average annual compound growth rate of more than 12%. It is expected that this number will exceed 530 million people in 2021, with a year-on-year growth rate of more than 8%.

Studying e-sports has two prospects in the future:

The first is to become a professional e-sports player. This path requires strong e-sports talent and a firm will. .

The second one is to work behind the scenes. The people behind e-sports are called "e-sports operators" in the definition of relevant national departments.

This is a general term for all behind-the-scenes positions (mainly those related to e-sports events), mainly including event planning and execution, e-sports hosting, e-sports venue operations, e-sports club management, and e-sports media Reporters and more. At present, there is already a so-called "e-sports sports and management" major in higher education, which is specifically used to train people behind the scenes of e-sports. Nowadays, the main purpose of studying e-sports in college is to learn some professional skills required for behind-the-scenes positions.

What is the future development like?

A person's future development mainly depends on two points: the industry environment and the strength of the individual. From the perspective of the industry environment, there is undoubtedly a shortage of people in e-sports. One of the more commonly used data was put forward by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security last year. The e-sports industry will have a talent gap of 3.5 million people in the next five years.

As more and more world-class e-sports events are held in China, my country’s e-sports industry has entered an explosive period. Among them, the proportion of the mobile e-sports market and the e-sports derivative market in the overall e-sports industry continues to increase.

PC-side e-sports market: PC-side e-sports games, with their realistic scene modeling, fierce battle scenes, and twists and turns of the main storyline, bring players an immersive gaming experience, regardless of the competition. Both the viewing quality and the operability of the game far exceed those of mobile e-sports games. The development of the PC e-sports market system is relatively mature. At present, the world's top e-sports events "League of Legends" global finals, "DOTA2" International Invitational Tournament and CSGO World Series are all based on PC games. However, due to the increasingly higher requirements for hardware equipment and network status, as well as the popularity of smartphones, the growth rate of the client game market has slowed down in recent years, and even declined in 2018, with the market share gradually declining.

Mobile e-sports market: Mobile e-sports games have broken the time and space limitations of traditional PC games and have become an important driving force for the growth of the e-sports industry. From the upstream game development end, to the midstream event clubs and event marketing, and the downstream event communication and event value-added services, mobile e-sports has gradually formed a complete industrial chain and ecological layout, and its completeness can basically be compared with PC e-sports.

E-sports ecological market: The influence of leading e-sports games and events continues to increase and the commercialization process continues to accelerate, driving the rapid development of the e-sports ecological market.