It has come to my attention that one of our senior members has begun playing World of Warcraft. I too once played until it was declared that I was too good and the president of Blizzard asked me to stop for the sake of other players.
I know a lot of people on the interweb play games like Farmville and Second Life. It would be worthwhile to discuss mechanics of making money in virtual games. Share your tips and tricks.
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hejustlaughs said:Online games are generally time sinks. You play them to kill time. The people making the money in online games are the developers of the games.
Nah you can make pretty good money automating them and selling in game items and currency.
Second Life went in the crapper as far as money-making is concerned when they got rid of the gambling. It was a fun place to spend a few hours on a Saturday night when gambling was allowed. People made money in the gambling, then spent it buying fake clothes and whatnot for their characters. You could make some cash selling digital artwork and furniture that people used to decorate their digital homes. Ahh, the memories.
TxAggieJen said:Second Life went in the crapper as far as money-making is concerned when they got rid of the gambling. It was a fun place to spend a few hours on a Saturday night when gambling was allowed. People made money in the gambling, then spent it buying fake clothes and whatnot for their characters. You could make some cash selling digital artwork and furniture that people used to decorate their digital homes. Ahh, the memories.
I used to make money on second life playing tringo. A game. But I swore off the online games, in favor of reality.
theboogeyman said:Be a Chinese gold farmer. I heard the]y make good money. They figured out how to grow gold on their farms? Shit! I knew the technology was close, but I didn't think the Chinese would get it first. How do I get involved in this endeavor? I have 60 acres of prime farming land.
Thanks in advance!
Message edited by: Incarnate on 2009-11-08 09:59:46 CST
chimeer said:Nah you can make pretty good money automating them and selling in game items and currency.
While it's true that you can make some money running bots, the associated cost is not 0. There's a cost for the software, whether you develop it yourself or you purchase it. You'd also have to estimate how long on average you can run the software before your account gets banned. Or a better measurement may be your average return per account you purchase. Then there's the obvious computer/internet costs. Etc etc.
To TripleB: As interesting as I find the gold farming market, it should be pretty obvious that any well-known market with zero barriers to entry will become saturated very quickly. And when your competition is people from other countries willing to work for significantly less than US minimum wage, you'd probably be better off working at McDonalds. Just my $0.02.
Dazarath said:chimeer said:Nah you can make pretty good money automating them and selling in game items and currency.
While it's true that you can make some money running bots, the associated cost is not 0. There's a cost for the software, whether you develop it yourself or you purchase it. You'd also have to estimate how long on average you can run the software before your account gets banned. Or a better measurement may be your average return per account you purchase. Then there's the obvious computer/internet costs. Etc etc.
To TripleB: As interesting as I find the gold farming market, it should be pretty obvious that any well-known market with zero barriers to entry will become saturated very quickly. And when your competition is people from other countries willing to work for significantly less than US minimum wage, you'd probably be better off working at McDonalds. Just my $0.02.
I understand the risk/reward of running bots quite well. I am not currently in the gold farming market but I can tell you there is a great deal of money there after you overcome the initial obstacles costs are extremely nonlinear (after the initial break in and automation scaling is pretty cheap). Accounts servers and IP addresses are all cheap in comparison to the money available once you develop an effective bot (good bots like these can not be bought on the open market sorry).
I just started playing EVE Online. Would like to get to the point where I can start trading ISK for $$$. It's so fun and relaxing... would be nice if it made me money too. $30/day please haha.
Dazarath said:chimeer said:Nah you can make pretty good money automating them and selling in game items and currency.
While it's true that you can make some money running bots, the associated cost is not 0. There's a cost for the software, whether you develop it yourself or you purchase it. You'd also have to estimate how long on average you can run the software before your account gets banned. Or a better measurement may be your average return per account you purchase. Then there's the obvious computer/internet costs. Etc etc.
To TripleB: As interesting as I find the gold farming market, it should be pretty obvious that any well-known market with zero barriers to entry will become saturated very quickly. And when your competition is people from other countries willing to work for significantly less than US minimum wage, you'd probably be better off working at McDonalds. Just my $0.02.
Your .02 is exactly what the Chinese gold farmers make per hour. The owners make more, but I heard they pay their "employees" next to nothing (even for Chinese standards).
Like I said, I do not play anymore, but I always wondered how these farmers worked.
I know the basics... You either automate it so that a character automatically does something in game that makes money or you have a person repeat the same, but they actually do it.
I guess my wonder was, where do they do it? If they can farm so much gold, why not just do what they are doing and load up on gold.
When I was playing, I would have been happy to take over their area or help them get some gold (for my character). I know that people used to send a message to the ones they suspected were farming, and report the ones that would not respond or just said "hi" or something like that.
I tried to link my all powerful hunter, but WOW Armory said it could not display since it had been so long since I last played.
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