10 ideas for making money with video games
1- Participate in video games tournaments and bet on oneself
If you're good at one game, or even more than one, you can try to make money at video games tournaments.
Now, thanks to some sites such as Glory4Gamers, it is possible to register for tournaments and try his luck (or provoke it) to finish in first place and win the jackpot.
For example on Glory4Gamers it is possible to participate in tournaments playing on 3DS, Playstation 3 & 4, Wii U, xBox One & 360 and PC.
On Glory4Gamers there are different types of tournaments:
Free tournaments that can win us ... the right to replay.
Free tournaments that can save us a few euros.
The "cashback" tournaments, the registration fee of € 1 and in which we can hope to win up to 40 euros depending on the number of players.
Tournaments "jackpot", whose registration is paying € 2 and in which we can hope to win up to 700 euros.
So we can hope to earn a lot of money if we are talented, very talented, and maybe even that it can open a few doors, to be known, and so to make a living this way (yes c is already the case for some players around the world).
2- Bet on e-sports
E-sport means ... video game (this is a word that is certainly born of a marketing story).
Since there are now video game competitions, there are bound to be bets, one almost never goes without the other.
And to be able to bet on the e-sport there are more and more American sites, but unfortunately none of them seems to be approved by the ARJEL (Regulatory Authority of online games in France) so I do not know not if I have the right to promote it here. So as a precaution I will not mention any e-sports betting site here.
3- Make videos on YouTube
This method is one of the best legal solutions to make money through video games. There are many YouTubers who do a lot of money by filming themselves playing, it shows the millions of views accumulated by some videos.
The advantage of this solution is that it allows you to earn passive income, so once you have a fairly developed audience you can expect to earn sums of money quite interesting without necessarily having to publish videos every day.
4- Sell video games via G2A Goldmine
G2A Goldmine is the affiliate program of the ... G2A website. This affiliate program makes it possible to recommend video games and earn a commission for each sale made.
We can recommend the video games of our choice to friends, on social networks, on its website, on a YouTube channel, on forums, etc ...
When a person buys a video game on G2A through our recommendation link, this one will enlarge our team. Indeed on G2A Goldmine we can build a team of sellers and / or consumers on 3 levels, which allows to earn more and more commissions.
The disadvantage is that the commissions do not always fly very high, since most of the games for sale are not very expensive, but the advantage is that one earns commissions for life, so that can get pretty interesting over time.
5- Register your own game online
To make money one can also think about creating (or having created), developing and administering one's own online game, or application. It can then be monetized by allowing members to pay for benefits on the same game, it can also be monetized through advertising.
Obviously, creating your own online game may require some knowledge, and developing it requires a lot of time, especially at the beginning.
For the creation of an online game, there are several sites that can facilitate the process, for example:
@MafiaControl, which allows you to create a mafia game. MafiaControl is the new version of the Mamafia website, with better design and better ergonomics for mobile players. MafiaControl allows you to create your game for free, but by investing a hundred euros you put more chances on your side. The advantage of this site is that it allows to create a very good mafia game without any knowledge recquise (but for a complete game it takes several hundred euros, the problem is that precisely that ' is too easy ... so there are a lot of competitors, if you want to create a game via this site you will have to be able to pull out of the game and you will not have to count the hours at the beginning.
@Jcray.com: I tested very quickly this site, it looks pretty good we can create an RPG, a strategy game, a game of breeding ... from what I could see can do a little everything we want, we can even add its own codes. However, looking at online games created by members, it seems that you need at least knowledge of CSS because otherwise we end up with a catastrophic design. Jcray would be a good choice to create a first online game because it is a free tool and the paid formula costs only 3 euros per month so it can really be worth a try.
@Webidev: This site allows you to create an online breeding game, I have not tested it, I do not know if you can customize your game as you wish and if you can make money with it .
These are just some of many examples ... in fact, these are the sites I found on the French-language web, but on the English side there must be many other sites that can help to create his game. online easily, for example by typing "create a game online" (I do not know if it's correct English, I speak English as a Spanish cow) I was able to find several sites that can create / his own flash games and more ...
You can also create your own game server. For example one can create his server Minecraft, or Rust (see this article), or other ... I am not a great connoisseur in the field, if you are interested Google is your friend, and do not hesitate to search on the English side again. And you also have to learn about the laws, because I guess we can not do any game like that.
6- Create a website (blog, forum, online shop ...)
You can also earn a lot of money by creating and developing your own video game site. One can for example create a blog, an online shop, a forum ... and even all at once.
The hard part is to make the site known, to bring traffic on it.
Level monetization is much more "simple", we can for example recommend services / products / sites as affiliates (gamer material with the Amazon partner program, video games with G2A Goldmine, gambling with Affiliate Gambling Affiliation platform, ...), we can do dropshipping (selling products without having stock to manage), we can sell our own products, like an ebook for example, and we win money via Google Adsense.
7- Create and sell an ebook and / or a paper book
Before Christmas, I was in a supermarket to buy gifts and balancing myself in the books department, I saw books on MineCraft, written by a fan of this game.
So there is money to take there too, if you are a fan of a video game in particular you can write a book about it (again you have to learn the law I imagine ... especially if you live in France).
So we can write a book, and sell it to digital form (epub, pdf ...) on sites like Amazon, or 1TPE and clickbank (affiliate platforms specialized in the field of digital product infoproducts).
You can also offer your book to a publishing house, try them one by one to try your luck. It pays less than digital products, but it has the advantage of giving even more credibility to the author and give really interesting consequences ...
8- Make money by testing video games
To make money through video games, you can become a tester.
Imagine ... Being paid to play all day does not make you want to? :)
Well, actually, it's a different story. A video game tester is there to find the bugs, to really study the games ... I do not think this job is only synonymous with good times.
Some sites may also pay us to test games occasionally, but in general we must especially test sites or applications (see this article: earn money by giving his opinion).
If you are interested in the video game tester trade, you can read this article which contains good information on the subject.
Other trades related to video games
If you are interested in trades related to video games, know that there are plenty: level designer, programmer, modeler, tester, animator ...
For more information on the topics of different trades related to video games, I invite you to read this article.
9- Games that can make money
There are online games that can make money. This is for example the case of the game Second Life, which is "created" and managed by the players themselves. In this game you can earn money by creating items and selling them for virtual currency that can then be exchanged for real money based on the rate.
I know there are games similar to Second Life (for the real money side), unfortunately I can not get my hands on it anymore ...
One can also turn to the free flash game sites to win prizes. For example, one of the biggest sites in this field is Ludokado.com. There, the potential of gain compared to the time invested is not necessarily very interesting, but the games are nice.
Otherwise, there is obviously the gambling, as for example the paris paris, bets sports and poker. the PMU website offers all three activities at once if you are interested, you must of course be of age. Often on this kind of sites, we get a bonus to the registration, the style we deposit 50 euros and the site offers us 50 euros, this is only valid for registration in general.
10- Invest in video games
To earn money through video games you can also think about investing, buying games, waiting for them to take value and then resell them ... or resell them without waiting if there's a way to make margin.
Some video games are aging very well ... I have unfortunately paid the price myself. 3 years ago I recovered a playstation 1, so I necessarily wanted to buy the PS1 games I had when I was little, including the game "Team Buddies", unfortunately today it costs 120 minimum used euros (without the box, otherwise it's 200 minimum) and at least 700 euros for a new or almost new ...
And this is just one example among many, there are games that cost the price of a car. And, of course, some video games will never take value.
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