Na’Vi.Dendi: The end of an era

On Money

Very often I see messages that I am greedy and get a huge percentage of sponsorship deals with the organization, I have an incredibly high salary, and in general, I'm only in the NAVI FOR MONEY !!! They write that I am greedy and such a beast I sit on my salary and bite into it at the last exhale.

Here of course, that I would not have written - most still will remain in my opinion. But I'll write one time. Last!

For me, money does not have much value. This is the matter, without which I can quite easily manage. I'm not demanding and I do not need much. I think it comes from education, or I'm just such a person :) in this regard, I was lucky (Thanks to Mom and Dad)

I do not need expensive cars, houses, expensive branded things (like many others in my environment). Maybe I'm still not mature (although like the 28th year I went), and maybe just such a person. I have enough computer with internet, mattress, healthy food and relatives with loved ones nearby. I much prefer to enjoy beautiful nature and architecture, rather than some material benefits.

I grew up in not the richest family. The family was big and had to save on everything (we lived with two grandmothers, father, mother, brother and sister). I remember the times when my mother was looking for where to buy eggs for 18 kopecks instead of 19ti to save. But at the same time, my parents sent me for additional lessons of English, music, acrobatics, and dances. We shared one banana (once a hell knows how many days) for two with a sister and cut it into 50 pieces and each piece was savored as if it was a candy! I think, in those days, many people lived like this :) but I write this to the fact that I have little needs since my childhood.

When did I start receiving my salary in WG (my first professional team) in 2006? or 2007? I do not remember. It was 1000 UAH (the truth of all I got 3-4 salaries, and we played together much longer) for me it was something unreal :) Even then I realized for myself that the money for me does not matter much and the main thing is to deal with it favorite business. Then the salary certainly grew. In the TPA, it was $ 100 then $ 150 or $ 200. When we moved to NaVi, it was $ 150 or $ 200 (I honestly do not remember) but then, and now, in DotA, I never played for MONEY! So it turns out in life that I always did something that brought me pleasure and in this respect, I was terribly lucky :)

At the institute, I missed a lot of classes and completely gave myself to what I like (back then there were no high PRIZES or SALARY). It was a kind of ALL-IN which resulted in THE INTERNATIONAL. Probably lucky? And maybe, if you give yourself completely to your favorite business and try to reach a maximum in it, the money will come.

I also want to dispel another myth. I do not receive or receive% of sponsorship deals with the organization. My GP in 2015-2016 (season) of the year was lower than the guys from the EP (when we were much more confident). And the guys from EG or Cykrat received, probably, 2 times more. And if I had left the NAVI, then most likely I would easily have received a ZP higher.

I never demanded an increase from my organization. For me, there was and is the main thing that I completely trusted and trust in NaVi. I saw that they wanted and want to develop, constantly growing the staff of people working for the organization, improving the conditions for training for teams, etc. I was and is a part of NaVi and I always wanted my own organization, into which I put a lot of years and emotions, developed.

The last time I will speak on the account of earnings - if I really was greedy for money and wanted to earn as much as possible, then most likely I would not play now in NaVi. It is possible from the end of 2014 or 2015. Maybe he would even create something of his own. I would develop my own social network., I would deal with the development of the media component and much more. Yes, even the stream would bring me now more money (if fully devote myself to this). But I want to do what I like. As before I want to do something that brings me pleasure :)

With me in the team played different guys. Many of them were anxious about money. Someone thinks money is the very goal, I think that this is always the result of diligence and work. I do not see anything wrong with this. I think that this is everyone's business and we are all different.

For all the time from expensive purchases, I bought myself a laptop (for streaming on travel but never realized the idea :)). Upgraded the computer to improve the quality of the stream (although at that time nobody especially did not bathe about it, but I wanted to make the picture for the viewer more enjoyable) and bought a go pro camera with thoughts on how to shoot something for those who would be interested. Well, yes, I just updated my 5th iPhone to the 10th !!!