How do you make money from your game?

[Sim]

Sell upgrades? Ads? what?

what kind of upgrades do you sell?

[Cronus]

Re: How do you make money from your game?

Donator pack, basic $5 pack with 50 crystals.

I've also recently added a "Special Donator Pack" that sells for $20.

However, there are only 10 available, once they are sold, a different type of special pack is available.

It's self-rotating and worked in with my ipn. So no work, and more donations.

[Sim]

Re: How do you make money from your game?

doesn't it cost extra money to set up a thing on paypal to do that?

[Cronus]

Re: How do you make money from your game?

Uhm, no lol.

I actually am selling custom IPNs for anyone interested here. (full support included)

I can even have it sms your phone when you get donations if you want.

[Rainbow]

Re: How do you make money from your game?

I think you should steady before trying to make money consider some questions like; Is your content and updates in place? Do you have traffic and a promotion plan? How many page views do you have per month? Who uses your site, what are they looking for and what might they respond to in an ad or affiliate program? Are they the audience that would buy?

Not all ways are legitimate for some, but they are for others, so it depends on the community of the game you administrate. If you are ready to be making money and considered all the factors then ofcourse by all means do so, there are three ways to make money as far as I am aware of in the php gaming industry; Sell product for more, Sell product more frequently, Get more members - which will result in more sales eventually.

 

Donator pack, basic $5 pack with 50 crystals.

I've also recently added a "Special Donator Pack" that sells for $20.

I realise that you want to make money, but surely the community is important to you. Dont you feel that if someone buys alot of donator packs they will have an unfair advantage and it will have a negative impact which will lead to people loosing motivation and eventually leaving the game which gradually will reduce the income. I like rewards that have less of an impact on the game - something just for the fun of it, not so your players loose motivation.

- Rainbow -

[Cronus]

Re: How do you make money from your game?

My donator packs only give 50 crystals.

That doesn't accomplish very much in my game.

Also according to my google analytics, since the first of february I've gotten 750k+ pageviews.

I don't put ads on my site so the affiliate is unnecessary. And I advertise in quite a few great places

[CtrlFreq]

Re: How do you make money from your game?

 

what kind of upgrades do you sell?

Our game is turn based, so we sell upgrades, which last 7 days and allow players to accrue faster, and bulk packs of turns, for those who are either impatient, or have a vendetta. Upgrades run $5 to $100, turn packs from $10 to $1000. Because of the distinct advantage these extra turns give players, we have three sets of prizes - one for free players, and two classes of paying players based on how much they've put in.