Monday 2 February 2015

Is it possible to earn real money by playing games?

Many gamers' dream is to make real money, by doing what he/she most love. The computer games industry generates billions of dollars, so it surely have enough resources to reward even the simplest players. In reality it will be easier and more profitable to work as carrier in the local store, than as gamer.
But for true gamers, those that play anyway, and fearless explorers, there are some known ways to make real money.

Work for a game company.
Working for a game company looks cool. But it is very difficult and stressful. The designer need a lot of skills, knowledge and experience with games. The programmer need a lot of practice and knowledge in coding. And the tester need a lot of observation and writing skills. To achieve any of this, a game company must be found first. This need a lot of social and promotion skills, that most gamers just do not have.

Write for a game company.
Good gamers, with a lot of experience, can write articles for game companies and their games. Again a lot of writing skills are needed. And again to achieve any of this, a game company must be found first and need a lot of social and promotion skills.

Write books and stories about games.
This is something I was thinking lately. It will need a lot of other skills than gaming. Beside, this may violate some copyrights, but there are a lot of dos games with good content to add about.

Exchange in game currencies for real money.
This way is possible, but still mostly illegal. It is hard to find honest resellers and very likely to be banned. Yet there are gamers or more likely group of gamers, that can sell their gold in World of Warcraft through third party sites.

Games with real money auction houses. RMAH.
Imagine you play a MMORPG game and find a good rare item. And you decide instead of using it to sell it for real money to other player that need it and is willing to pay. You post it in the auction house and wait to see if there is interest. Well yes, it is too good to be true. Blizzard tried it with the first Diablo 3 release in 2012, and it failed. And it failed because of philosophical reasons and not that it wasn't working. Blizzard didn't wanted people to hang the whole day in the auction checking their sells, but they wanted them to play. To click and clash and crush mobs and enemies. 

Games with real money economy. 
There are MMO(massive multiplayer online) games that offer to exchange in game currencies for real money. These games rely on people who spend money in the game to make the economy working. They do make money, but the amount is very small. It is something like that: "You can't make money by playing, but you can make some money while playing." One of these games is Entropia Universe

Games to create virtual objects and sell them for real money. 
These are strongly social games. The idea is to have a virtual brand, create virtual clothes for example and sell them to other players in the virtual world that needs them. Doing this is not easier than doing it in the real world. But you can always try such games, they are mostly free. Second Life and IMVU.

Games to create content and sell it for real money. 
This is the newest idea for making money by casual gamers. Sony have undertaken it with their famous title Ever Quest with separate application called Ever Quest Next Landmark. They claim the they will give the player the tools to create quest locations with monsters and buildings and, the creators then to sell this locations to other players for real money. The game is scheduled for around 2016, so we wall wait to see what will happen.


Free browser games with real money withdrawal. 
There are a lot of freemium online games with real money withdrawal. They are cool to play, but again will need other players to invest money, so that economy can exists.. some of them worth trying are My Lands, Golden Towns, Goal tycoon and Market Glory.

Tuesday 16 December 2014

"Goal Tycoon" Online Game Preview


Goal Tycoon

Goal Tycoon Game is an online football manager. It have all properties for such game dating from the first CM(championshiop Manager) till the modern ones that are quite a lot. This one is the coolest we found on the net, it plays in browser, it is new and it have real money exchange option. As in every FM, the main task is to develop a good team, train players, hire trainers, keep the stadium in order and win as many Virtual Euros.There is one football game every day with a team from your group. If the oponent is too powerful place your good players to rest, use non agressive tactics and put youth that needs experience in play. Buy shares when possible. Early selling players is possible only with ivestment, but it is rewarding to sell the young players that do not fit your favorite system. Try it free.

Main Screen
Observe ranking
Maintain stadium
Overall statistics

Match Screen
Observe timing
Observe oponent stats
Watch the mach while it plays

Tactic Screen
Set formations
Set player positions
Examine players skills
Restrictions: In time enough gold will be gathered to buy Virtual Euros. Then Virtual Euros can be exchanged to Pay Pal or credit/debit card for real Euros.

"Golden Towns" Online Game Preview


Golden Towns

Golden Towns is a Freemium City Builder. It has the spirit of games like Ceasar, Pharaoh, Cultures, even similar to famous Facebook games for farming and housing. For every real hour, You get one point to spend on buildings, production or repairs. The first thing to do is upgrade your houses to maximum level, so happiness becomes 100%. This will open the option to sell workers for gold. Then make production buildings but as much as you can handle. Maintenance is hard, so more buildings gets harder to keep things in order. Then build the gold mine. And don't forget the barracks to train soldiers for defense and attack. The main objective is to mine or gather gold and watch your town not to fall apart. The gold is the main resource that is exchanged for real money. Gold is used for everything: to buy time, finish buildings, buy resources, buy shares and bonds, bid in a chance game or withdraw it. The game is less battle orientated and if your town, or your country is occupied it just take a % of your resources. Here are the ways to make gold: 1. Mine it with a gold mine. 2. Sell workers and Soldiers. 3. Buy game shares when you have gathered enough gold to invest. 4. Buy shares from other cities and countries. 5. Play a game of chance. Try it free.

City Screen
Build various buildings
Maintain order and needs
Produce resources and gold

Inventory Screen
Trade resources and gold
Watch statistics
Acquire dividents

Map Screen
Conquer other countries
Dominate cities
Involve in politics
Restrictions: Most transactions go trough adminstration, there are many payment options like card, wire, western union, payza, bitcoin and more. Yet PayPal Gold exchange for money can be made by game resellers(other players that play). The players that control the private countries are usually honest resellers. Recently included are ingame gold/EUR exchange rate with floating price(like in real forex market) and a game of chance, if you want to try Your luck.