Big Bucks Abound in Online Gaming

With Blizzard Entertainment?s Diablo 3 PC game recently becoming the fastest selling PC game in history ? it sold 3.5 million copies in the first 24 hours ? the world of online gaming has changed yet again.? Blizzard included an interesting feature in Diablo 3, one that had never been done before in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG): a real money auction house for in game goods.

Making Money from a Game

While Diablo?s online auction house may be the first of its kind, it does not signal the start of money making practices in these MMORPG?s, merely the legalization of the process.? In fact, it was another Blizzard game that really started the ball rolling.? World of Warcraft is still the most successful MMO out there.? It had a user base of 12 million active users in 2010 ? when it was at the peak of its powers ? and some of these users found ways to circumvent the strict in game auction system and make real money from playing the game.

Gold Farming refers to the practice of amassing in game gold and equipment that would later be sold for real money.? Individuals and companies sold this virtual money and equipment on various platforms and then transferred ownership in game.? As characters progress in WoW, they also collect items that are bound to that one character: items that are extremely rare.? As such, eventually, a large market in the sale of high level characters arose, with one character selling, back in 2007, for $5,000.? This capacity for making profit from playing online games has translated into other platforms since the WoW problems and Diablo?s real money auction house was seen as a way to crack down on the black market that had sprung up by offering greater control.

As it happens, Diablo 3?s market place has become a bit inflated as many gamers attempt to make more and more money from their goods.? Is it a good idea, however?? Blizzard take a cut of each sale made and coupled with a listing price of $1 per item, low cost items are actually going to lose you money, not make it.? Leaving the whole real money auction house to the professional gamers and bots.? All in all, the system has taken away the option of making money from the game on a small scale, leaving us all looking elsewhere for that online buck.

The rise and rise of Casual Gaming

One thing that has changed in recent years has been the demographic of a gamer.? Whereas the typical gamer of the 90?s and early 2000?s was a young man with questionable social skills and personal hygiene, Facebook gaming has opened this can of worms up to all.? Nowadays millions of subscribers play Facebook games such as Farmville or Mafia Wars ? who doesn?t have a Facebook inbox full of requests for assassinations or sheep or whatever the current fad is.? Top amongst these casual game platforms is Zynga, the developing house who?ve had their hand in nearly all the top Facebook games out there.? These games mainly make their money through advertisements, so there isn?t much in the way of opportunities for a gamer to make money but if you know a bit about coding, then there are options.

Flash games on Facebook and mobile games on Android and iOS have gained so much traction recently that if you can release something even moderately good, you can gain thousands of downloads quite quickly.? Developers are turning their attention to this medium as there is less pressure on the developer to produce a unique, intensive game world than with previous platforms.? Games can be thrown together fairly quickly and are dipped in and out of by users.? One of the most common types is freemium games: games which are free to download but offer a premium service for a fee.

Club me With That Spade, You Diamond Hearted Fool

Still one of the most popular online gaming choices out there is away from all of these considerations, however.? Online poker has been around for a long time and will continue to be around as people search for their card game fix from the online community.? With thousands of online casinos out there offering poker games as well as dedicated poker developers, there is a large amount of choice when it comes to the ultimate in money making (or losing) card games.? If you are aiming to make money online, then poker is a viable option but you do need to put in a lot of hard work to become good enough to consistently make money.

In order to become good enough, then you need to play free games a lot, such as the one at: http://www.pokerstars.co.uk/poker/getting-started/free-poker/.? Once you?re good enough, then you can expose yourself to the world of unlimited hands and large pots.

Source: http://www.dokisoft.com/big-bucks-abound-in-online-gaming/

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