Earning cash from an MMO

mcast123 · 30 Nov 2006 at 10:36

I read the thread about the Chinese second life girl making a million, and thought I would ask if anyone here has made any cash out an MMO.

I personally made around £200\week for 40 hours playing Everquest1. Not exactly setting the world on fire at £5 per hour and it got bored after 3 months.

I met a Lithuanian guy in game, he was making the same amount as me, apparently, this kept his entire family in a better than average lifestyle.

Agent_matt · 30 Nov 2006 at 10:50

I thought, it against the EULA of most MMO(rpgs's) to sell ingame stuff. However, the ones that let you sell stuff, I can't imagine why you couldn't make a healthy sum

FrenchTart · 30 Nov 2006 at 10:59

I've not personally, but "Grayson" in Asheron's Call earned enough to quit his job and basically play the game 24/7. He was a very savvy trader though.

Obviously that stopped being quite so easy to do once the game lost most of it's player base to the newer mmo games.

VeNT · 30 Nov 2006 at 11:04

Agent_matt said:
I thought, it against the EULA of most MMO(rpgs's) to sell ingame stuff. However, the ones that let you sell stuff, I can't imagine why you couldn't make a healthy sum

its actualy quite a bad idea, as the games EULA mostly stipulate that all ingame content blongs to the rights holder (ie CCP etc) therfore you're selling goods that don't actualy belong to you!

but theres money to be made if you've a factory of 1000 chinese workers farming isk/gold/stuff all day long and selling it on the bay.

NumptyUK · 30 Nov 2006 at 12:13

i sold my old EQ1 character for £400 when i stopped playing it. Some people have more money than sense

I dont think youd make much these days from character selling since its all too easy to level up.

Vixen · 30 Nov 2006 at 12:46

NumptyUK said:
i sold my old EQ1 character for £400 when i stopped playing it. Some people have more money than sense

I dont think youd make much these days from character selling since its all too easy to level up.

I very much doubt that since a lot of people still sell WoW accounts. It may be easy to level, but it still takes time, which a lot of people can't be bothered with.

badgermonkey · 30 Nov 2006 at 13:19

Vixen said:
I very much doubt that since a lot of people still sell WoW accounts. It may be easy to level, but it still takes time, which a lot of people can't be bothered with.

Meh, I payed £30 for a level 60 account in WoW. The guy just wanted rid of it (plus it would take me more than 3 months = £30 to level to 60

). That was a good find

Will probably sell it on once i've kitted her out with epics etc for a big profit

Goberpiles316 · 30 Nov 2006 at 13:21

I mayed around £3000 from SWG from an armorsmith business.

n3crius · 30 Nov 2006 at 13:38

selling avatars to idiots seems fine.

farming for money, or paying for gold is pitiful.

themistry · 30 Nov 2006 at 13:51

VeNT said:
blongs

The word I think you require is "belongs". Blongs was invented in the whole 9 yards.

Goberpiles316 said:
mayed

Do you mean "made" ?

Interesting thread... for different reasons lol

TM

VeNT · 30 Nov 2006 at 14:10

themistry said:
The word I think you require is "belongs". Blongs was invented in the whole 9 yards.

Do you mean "made" ?

Interesting thread... for different reasons lol
TM

ZOMG I MISSED AN E!!!

if you can't be constructive here then don't bother posting.

as I said, most MMORGs' do not alow the selling of goods outside of the game. most gold sellers are using bots/cheap work forces (china) to get their gold/isk etc.

people who buy their gold from these guys drive ingame inflation though the roof and can ruin whole ecomonys.

div0 · 30 Nov 2006 at 14:22

VeNT said:
alow

VeNT said:
ecomonys.

Also, why would Grammar Nazi's care about spelling?

You know I'm only joking, I just couldn't resist!

On topic, I've never really played any of these games, never mind making any money from them. But I guess its one of these right time right place kinda things, and if you get into the game enough then I'm sure its not that difficult to make something out of them. But it does surprise me that real money is becomming a big part of online gaming....

ins0mn1ac · 30 Nov 2006 at 14:58

made about £1500+ with the selling of a couple MMO acc's if that counts.

Vixen · 30 Nov 2006 at 15:16

badgermonkey said:
Meh, I payed £30 for a level 60 account in WoW. The guy just wanted rid of it (plus it would take me more than 3 months = £30 to level to 60 ). That was a good find Will probably sell it on once i've kitted her out with epics etc for a big profit

That's not bad. It's not something I'd do though, but I enjoy the leveling

.