The gaming world has never been so successful, like now. With billions in annual revenue from hundreds of thousands of players, some companies, specializing in online games, they earn decently and claim to be on par with the largest companies in the world. We are, gamers, is part of society, which constantly fills their pots with gold, leaving with nothing. Fortunately, there are those too, who does not agree to be left empty-handed, — unremarkable heroes of online games, who found ways to make money, doing that, what they love the most. Thanks to this enterprising group, here are several methods of making money playing online games. Of course, to someone, far from the world of games, these ideas may seem unattainable and even fantastical, but real gamers know, what is the secret of the art of making money, playing your favorite game, still exists.
Trading/Selling an account
If you've been playing an old game for over a year, and you no longer get such thrills from her as before, that means, that it's time to let her go - to sell the account. Many specialized forums and even sites like eBay often give the player the opportunity to sell his account of the game he is tired of.
Sellers issue their account, detailing all awards and achievements received and pending, when someone purchases their account. The stronger your character was in the game, the more it will cost. The price for the most fashionable accounts can start from $1000. Some enterprising users even put the matter on stream. Every day they put up a basic account for sale for $10, and after its sale, they begin to pump to the base level of a new character, to put it up for sale. Why don't you try to establish such a business?
Pumping (Driver)
Your skill, which has existed for decades, can bring good income. It all started simply as completing levels for your friends, but now, when online games are played by thousands of people, it all turned into a great business. Currently, pumping allows lazy gamers to pay others, for them to play for them, completing missions and leveling up their character to a certain title.
Like coaching (more details about this method will be told later), if you want to be able to promote other people's characters, you have to at least play well, and the best thing is to guarantee that, that your skills in the game are worth that money, what are you asking for.
This method of earning is usually practiced in MMO games, such, як League of Legends, where character boosting even has its own name "Elo boosting" and promises profits of thousands of dollars. Of course, there are not so many wealthy lazy people in our segment, ready to pay serious money for that, to have someone play the game for them, but there is also a demand for such services.
Coaching
New players are different: someone likes to go through all the steps of the game on their own, and someone needs to immediately join the squad of leaders (something like buy promotion). In this case, a player is bought, who will teach the noob, who wants to understand all the intricacies of the game. At the moment, such a player acts as an online trainer, who constantly watches over his student, giving him valuable advice.
Trainers must be masters of the toy itself, as well as in the learning process itself, after all, a new player will not want to hire some idiot. Therefore, masters of training must constantly demonstrate their abilities in a live game.
More and more money is involved in eSports, and therefore the coaches, specializing in e-sports disciplines, are increasingly needed. In English-speaking countries, high-class teachers earn from $30 to $100 per hour. But this does not mean at all, that simply good players cannot coach, because beginners are always ready to learn from those, who has the knowledge and charges significantly less than the notorious online trainers.
To all, who plans to do coaching in online games, you can give valuable advice: always be ready to prove how good you are at your job.
eSports
Cybersport is a type of competitive game, where real professionals fight. Large tournaments are held as part of eSports, with huge sums of money at stake. And although only elite players participate here, it does not mean at all, that an ordinary good gamer cannot test his strength.
Usually, the main event of the tournament is held on the main stage, where the titans of eSports compete for the top prize, and the best players fight for their team. Such tournaments can have a prize pool of $1000 to $10,000 and even hundreds of thousands, at that, that participation in them is absolutely free. Cyber sports disciplines include the following games, how:
- World of Tanks
- Dota 2
- StarCraft 2
- CounerStrike
YouTube
It's getting harder and harder to meet people in the world, who have never watched a game video on YouTube. And it is quite fair, because the creators of game content try in every way to place videos about the game on the well-known service as advertising. Some pay millions of dollars just to do it, to make a promo for your products. As a method of making money from online games, YouTube is not the best option, but everything is possible.
If you plan to make money in this way, then you need to plan in advance, that you will include in the video and analyze the traffic. After that, it is necessary to analyze the results and, if necessary, edit the video product.
Many declare, that the gaming niche on YouTube is already more than filled, but it is hardly possible to fully agree with it. Now, after the legalization of casinos, there are a large number of online clubs with online slot machines, licensed casinos of Ukraine, that appeared like mushrooms after the rain, need advertising, so why not take advantage of it? Also, new games are always appearing on the market, and therefore there will always be an opportunity to get into the mainstream. But to succeed, стандартний підхід при створенні каналу вже не підійде – за такої насиченості контенту потрібно шукати способи виділятися серед інших. It is necessary to be persistent, because to make money on YouTube you will have to work hard and wait a long time for results.
Streaming video
Youtube is a powerful thing, and it's really true, but sometimes it does not provide enough level of personalization for its users. The result was streaming video, where primarily gamers can see a lot in the initial, unedited. In a few months, the majority of Youtube users, who view game content, switched to this new format, built specifically for the gaming community.
On the leading video streaming site Twitch to everyone (of course, that have subscribers) the service is open, with which you can broadcast your game streaming video. But how to make money with it? To do this, you need to have at least one of the three important characteristics of a successful streamer:
- good at playing a particular game,
- to be an extremely charismatic person,
- have thousands of followers on social networks.
If you have it, then immediately try this opportunity and you will also benefit from your favorite activity. Stream and monetize your gaming content.
Testing of online games
Once upon a time, the idea of playing video games for hours at a time and getting paid for it at the end seemed like a dream. The career of a game tester has been beckoning to me since childhood, but in the real world, although such a profession exists, it's not all that fun.
Actually, playtesters can play the same scene over and over for hours, scanning every millimeter of the map, in order not to miss any error or bug. But if you are ready for this, then look for sites on the Internet, on which they offer to test games, and enjoy finding bugs in a playful way.
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