Today, there are a few different ways you can make money while playing games. Moreover, these methods will not diminish the enjoyment you get from the game. Let’s take a look at all of them together.
Playing games is no longer just a hobby; it can also be a budget for your next game or even a serious source of extra income, with smart moves. If you are also thinking, “If I’m playing this many hours, it should at least bring some return,” you are in the right place. The idea of earning money while doing something you already love sounds like a dream, doesn’t it?
In this content, we will focus on what an everyday gamer can do, rather than the idea of making a career in the gaming industry.
1. In-Game Item/Skin Sales
This is probably the least risky and most common method. The logic is simple: Play the game, sell the rewards (items) the game gives you.
Many popular online games (especially on PC) give you cosmetic items or cases that can drop these items as you play. These items have a “market“.
For example, when playing Counter-Strike (CS), as you gain XP weekly, the game might drop a weapon case, a skin (weapon finish), or graffiti as a reward. You can sell these dropped cases or skins directly on the Steam Community Market. When you sell them, the money is credited directly to your Steam Wallet balance. You might not be able to withdraw this balance as “real money” to your bank account, but you can use it to get your next game purchase (such as a new game on sale) for free.
Similarly, in PUBG or Dota 2, you can earn cosmetic items that might be valuable by playing and completing special events. You can also get a balance by selling these items on the Steam market.
2. “Play-to-Earn” (P2E) Games
This model, which has been popular for the last few years, includes Blockchain and NFT based games. In these games, the items or in-game currencies (tokens) you earn by playing genuinely “belong to you” (as an NFT).
You can sell the digital assets you earn in these games (a character, special armor, or the game’s own cryptocurrency) on the game’s own marketplace or external crypto exchanges.
This market is highly volatile. An item worth 100 TL today might be worth 1 TL tomorrow. You may often need to invest some “entry money” to start. The risk level is also high.
3. “Gold Farming” (In-Game Currency Grinding)
This is an old but still working method, especially common in MMORPG games (World of Warcraft, Knight Online, Metin2, Black Desert Online, etc.).
The logic is also quite simple. You accumulate in-game currency (Gold, GB, Yang) by spending time in the game (killing monsters, mining/trading). Then, you sell this virtual currency for real money to other players through intermediary sites (item sales sites). Players want to immediately possess this power with money instead of spending time, and they buy the in-game currency you sell.
4. Steam Card Sales
Games on Steam that support collectible cards drop a certain number of cards as you play. You can earn a small balance by selling these. Especially since the market prices of newly released games have not yet settled, if you purchased a game with a pre-order, you can play it as soon as it is released and sell the dropped cards for a higher price than their normal value.
Furthermore, with the IdleMaster application, you can drop cards from games in your Steam library whose cards have not yet been dropped and sell them on the Steam Community Market.
Of course, there are many other fields where one can specialize and earn money, such as game development, publishing, and game testing, but the easiest ways for an everyday gamer to earn money by playing are limited to these. If you know of a different method, you can share it with us in the comments section below.
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