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Sigh... I don't want to openly admit that I used to play runescape. But I did. And I could sell accounts for up to $600 american. There are a couple sites where you buy lesser accounts - bot them - and sell them for almost twice the price. It would take maybe 20-30 days each account, but you can do multiple accounts during that time.
My biggest investment was $250 and I botted for about a month and a half, sold it for $600. The risk factor is high though. You can get caught 'botting' and then it's bye bye to your initial investment. Also, some players ( if you didn't do the transaction properly ) could recover accounts you bought. So they could sell an account over and over to multiple 'suckers'. It was a vicious market. Also, gold farming was alright money. You could make $30 off of a 10-20 mill. Which is retarded easy to get with a high level account.
Not to mention that some items go for over a thousand american lol. It's insane. But those are very few and are special rare items that only came out at Christmas 7 years ago.
If done right, you could potentially not even work a real job. But that's just silly. Besides, Chinese gold farmers have noticed how much money is in runescape and they have diluted a lot of prices because well... they are Chinese after all. Working for 30 cents an hour making $30 an hour for their boss.
All in all, I'm glad I left when I did, and I made pretty close to a grand in profit in under 3 months.
edit: oh ya, and everything is done over paypal cc, so once a transaction is through, it's impossible to refund. Cha-ching!
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Sweden2683 Posts
You made $100 in 3 months, nice!, thats like... 5 hours of work
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Canada7170 Posts
I used to sell D2 items on ebay. d2jsp had some really amazing rate where you could trade Neopoints (I was young, okay?) for fg and buy D2 items and then sell the items for cash.
I thought I was pretty clever lol
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Lol how much could i sell a few billion neopoints for :D
edit: wtf are they seriously worth that much?
I have so much crazy hacked shit that i could sell lol... Might take a trip and see what i can dump then..
No way 1m neopoints is 10 dollars lol... i mean that stuff is so easy to come by i dont understand how it can be worth so much
Like, tons of people are stocked up on super peas and they go for like, 250m-350m each or something afaik, and if you wanna compete battledome you need at least like, 700m to do anything decent
Wow thats funny lol
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i havnt played WoW in years, but what would a season 2/season 3 gladiator level 80 druid be worth?
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Canada7170 Posts
I forget the conversion rate but 50 million neopoints was about $2k of D2 items at the time xD
At the time super peas were about 50m?
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You could try Tibia, its an old game and a year ago or so i was making like $100 per month by playing a couple of hours a day.
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On March 10 2011 04:40 Puosu wrote:Show nested quote +On March 10 2011 04:37 DoubleZee wrote:
Unless you're bot farming in WoW I don't think there is anyway to make money playing a video game. That's if you consider botting to be playing...which it really isn't. This sentence on TL.net, didn't quite expect to see it.
LOL that was gold.
But it is right. You can surely pull a few change by selling rare items in almost any popular game, specially RPGs. Be them Tibia, Runescape, Eve, UO, WoW, etc. I'm sure you will find people willing to trade real for virtual.
When I used to play Tibia, a player bought me a 6 months membership (40$) for around 100k game gold. This amount used to take around 2 months to get. Some players could sell rares back them for as high 500$. Though those used to take years to get a hold, since they were worth more than 1.5 million golds in game.
If you want to make money seriously, though, you gotta find a job in the industry. Be it a tester, pro gamer, coder, caster, graphic artist.
NaDa made a lot of $.$ playing SC. Probably the best played player during his prime...
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where do you all sell this stuff anyways???
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On March 10 2011 13:28 Sc2ttyl wrote:
where do you all sell this stuff anyways???
I sold my TF2 items on SourceOP
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orr you could get a jerb!
Cool though, kind of like D2
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