Game COST $$$

[Renkia]

Ok, i was just wondering how much a game cost with these requierments.

Full Game Security

Requsted Mods - Advanced

Layout Designer - Somthing like / Operation Warhead

List of 3 things lol. Hosting & Domain i know.

PS.

If you have skills with, Graphics & CSS, Secuity, Creating. Please post.

Cheers,

Rasheed Saeed - Renkia :thumbup:

[Dave]

Ok, i was just wondering how much a game cost with these requierments.

Full Game Security

Requsted Mods - Advanced

Layout Designer - Somthing like / Operation Warhead

List of 3 things lol. Hosting & Domain i know.

PS.

If you have skills with, Graphics & CSS, Secuity, Creating. Please post.

Cheers,

Rasheed Saeed - Renkia :thumbup:

I think you mean Operation: Jarhead not Warhead.

[Renkia]

Ohhh yeah. Lol my bad sorry :P

[Djkanna]

Full game security can cost as much as the script itself and maybe more,

Requested Mods: Well that vary's on the mod usually mods are between $5 and $150

Design: Depends if it's custom, if you purchase a license or buy it out. Usually $500+,

licenses cost $60+ depending on who you go to I suppose.

[Danny696]

I would say, template -> $100 (min) Security -> $75 (min) mods -> $5(min) each

[Renkia]

Hmm, well if anyone have examples of the Templates that would be great.

[a_bertrand]

You didn't talked about advert... which is one of the area which will cost you most, beside development if you don't do it by yourself

[Renkia]

Adverts are sorted. Sorry forgot to say. :P

Hoping to spend around £200 On advertisments. Plus a Video for youtube witch willing to pay £120 MAX.

[rulerofzu]

£200 on ads on a good ad network will get you about 4-5 days of adverts max.

[a_bertrand]

200$ for 4 days? Well yes if you put a daily limit. But 200$ or even more can be burned within the first day. Also youtube video are not going to advertise much your game. If you want really some effect you need to think at least 2000$ of advert if not more. Of course you can start by spending a lot less, but then don't expect much. The actual registration cost is between 40 cents up to 6$ a registration (depends on which network you use). So... think that your 200$ will generate in the best case 500 registrations, and I doubt you will keep more than 30% of those, so think about 150 actual players.

[rulerofzu]

Well yeah I was being generous. :D

 

Starting out on ads you would be silly not to set a limit so you can judge your best click/registrations.

 

30% is optimistic. Id say a lot lot less than that for a text based game.

[iSOS]

A good way of getting some free advertising is put your game into BETA, make fan pages, just advertise to the community, google and the other search engines will see the incoming links and that will help, you'll in essence be getting some 'hype' up about your game. (Obviously it has to be good).

Oh and 'CrimGame' has done a good job on the above ^.^

[Dayo]

Full Game Security - $150-$300

Requsted Mods - Advanced - about $25ea

Layout Designer - Somthing like / Operation Warhead - this is on game site tremplates think it was about 40/50euro i got mine from there and coded it with GL, unfortently i havent had time to work on themercenary.net :(

[Renkia]

Hmmm, Advertisments are gonna be a big problem then. I Doubt i will spend $2000 On advertisments. But surly i could work somthings out.

[Haunted Dawg]

You don't need $2,000 for advertisement's to get alot of player's, now a day's if you pay that, your stupid.

Game Security: $250.00

Requested Mods: Price Varies

Template: $200.00

That is based on my price's. Feel free to drop a pm.

[marsh]

Or you can choose to buy a already made game :P Hint*Hint Freedom City :P

Much cheaper then starting your own (or atleast for this case, 250 :P)

Im not spamming :P just giving some suggestions lol

[Haunted Dawg]

Or you can choose to buy a already made game :P Hint*Hint Freedom City :P

Much cheaper then starting your own (or atleast for this case, 250 :P)

Im not spamming :P just giving some suggestions lol

And i would assume "freedom city" is secured like he has requested?

[marsh]

Yes I can thank Taxed for that :D He has everything secured, and it is a custom script that was bought from Taxed with a custom layout also bought from Taxed.

If you do choose to continue your project, i highly suggest Taxed because my brother said he is one of the best! :thumbup:

[a_bertrand]

Indeed you don't need to spend anything on advert at the beginning. I started myself without any budget (even for the hosting). And still, I was able to start and attract people. However if you are serious about advert, don't think about a budget like 200$ that's simply a mistake. Either you don't do it, and try alternative roads (like I explained on one article), or you decide to invest money and then we are talking about good numbers.

[Zero-Affect]

Nein

[a_bertrand]

Certainly not a "free" business... If you are serious, that's it. However, as said, you can start with very small budgets, and just slowly re-invest the possible gains.

[Zero-Affect]

Nein

[Haunted Dawg]

Spending $2,000.00 on advertising in the first week is just insane. I mean, seriously? Let's look at it from a different view.

If your the only tester on your game, and opening it thinking there isnt any bug's and spending 2grand on advertising, to find people coming to your site and leaving due to bug's you never found. Waste of cash. When i open up DeadlyKillah, what i will be doing is leaving it open for 2 month's fix all bug's and all, at this time, donation's will be closed, when 2 month's are up, im resetting and then opening donation's aswell.

Also, why waiste $2,000.00 when you can get easily 15k members in a month with less than $300? And about 9k of those 15k member's are active. You get about 2k daily active and around 200 online at any given time? So, maybe just view outside the box before you invest into advertising. Many game owner's think that going to ad site's work, but in the long run, there will alway's be a better game than your's on that ad's site, so who will the member's go to? The better site.

[Jordan Palmer]

Spending $2,000.00 on advertising in the first week is just insane. I mean, seriously? Let's look at it from a different view.

If your the only tester on your game, and opening it thinking there isnt any bug's and spending 2grand on advertising, to find people coming to your site and leaving due to bug's you never found. Waste of cash. When i open up DeadlyKillah, what i will be doing is leaving it open for 2 month's fix all bug's and all, at this time, donation's will be closed, when 2 month's are up, im resetting and then opening donation's aswell.

Also, why waiste $2,000.00 when you can get easily 15k members in a month with less than $300? And about 9k of those 15k member's are active. You get about 2k daily active and around 200 online at any given time? So, maybe just view outside the box before you invest into advertising. Many game owner's think that going to ad site's work, but in the long run, there will alway's be a better game than your's on that ad's site, so who will the member's go to? The better site.

You've made some very good points there kyle!

[Zero-Affect]

Nein