Boomers and late millennials might look askance at the ludicrous numbers thrown around for the gaming industry in Pakistan.
For example, the top-earning Pakistani gamer, Sumail Hassan, has earned $3.8 million playing Dota 2. At the current exchange rate, this is over Rs675m (67.5 crores in case you are doing the maths) — far more than an average Lahore University of Management Sciences grad will earn in his lifetime working for a coveted multinational company.
Globally worth roughly $200 billion with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.64 per cent, the gaming industry is entirely overlooked in Pakistan. While tech exports have crossed $2bn, the share of the gaming industry is minuscule. In contrast, Turkish gaming companies, for example, have raised $238m this year, according to a LinkedIn post by Babar Ahmed from Lion Studio, a mobile publishing studio based in the US.
Pakistan is ranked 29 out of 150 countries for e-sport earnings, with 278 local players earning a combined total of $4.78m
About 12,000-15,000 individuals are working in this industry, extrapolates Samar Hasan, co-founder of Epiphany Games, from the data made available by the unpublished International Game Developers Association report. The study estimates up to $25m is earned locally across the industry each year.
Pro-gaming is an important segment of the gaming industry, of which e-sports (electronic sports) is a sub-category. Pakistan is ranked 29 out of 150 countries for e-sport earnings, with 278...
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