How to make money playing video games 2021 with these 5 easy ways. You can play from home, twitch, mobile, without streaming, on your phone.
Remember when playing video games was considered a waste of time? I’m getting complaints about it all the time. Things are different today. Now you can make money when you play games online.
These days, you can put those hours to good use and actually play video games for money, and it doesn’t even matter if you’re not much of a gamer.
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Here are 5 easy ways to make money playing your favorite video game:
#1 Kindle Books based on your favorite game
You love playing games, and you love to write.
Why not combine the two of them?
You’re going to be like, Mike who would want to read a fiction book based on a computer game world?
I’ll admit, I too had that thought initially. Would people just prefer to play their games, instead of reading stories about them?
Well, turns out, like with a lot of things, I was dead wrong. Gamers are positively desperate for ‘extra material’ to read or watch that is based on one of their favourite games.
To get proof of this let me show you, you only need head over to Amazon and type in “Minecraft fiction” or
“World of Warcraft Fiction”.
You can see there are a lot of reviews. So, if you can write your own fiction about your own favourite games, you can, without doubt make money from playing games.
If you want to know more about how to write Game fiction kindle books, write comment below If I see a lot people request I will make video about it.
#2 Create Video Game Guides and Tutorials
Newbies love reading guides, especially for multiplayer player-versus-player (PvP) games. You can take several routes, such as creating a website for written guides, uploading video guides to YouTube, or publishing guides as ebooks.
The first two are often monetized with ads and/or donations, whereas the ebook route earns revenue through sales.
Let me show you example of the game I playing right now it is call NEW WORLD.
I follow his youtube channel to learn the build he pvp with other player.
Guest what he also has a blog show too and places an ad to make money:
Another example since the game has a lot of resources to gather, there is a dedicated database map that you know where to look if you need something.
As you can see you offer something for free in exchange you can play the ad next to it.
Here’s the difficult part:
Anyone can write a guide. To make any kind of money from it, you need to create guides for popular games—but the more popular the game, the more competition you’ll run into.
To set your guides apart, you’ll need to offer more insight than others can provide, which means investing a ton of time and setting yourself up as an expert.
On top of that, you’ll need strong writing skills. Guides need to be dense and comprehensive, but also entertaining.
#3 Get paid to test game
Games go through various phases of development before they’re released. Near the time of completion, developers need outsiders to playtest their games with fresh eyes.
As a playtester, your job is to check over everything the developer wants you to look at, which includes finding and documenting bugs and other issues.
These days it isn’t too difficult to become a tester, but it can be mind-numbing work. Playing to intentionally break games becomes boring fast, especially if you have to keep checking the same places after every revision.
The pay isn’t great (slightly better than, minimum wage). And unless you can land an internal position at a large game development company, most game testing positions are for mobile games.
For on-demand playtesting, look into services like PlaytestCloud, BetaFamily, and BetaTesting.
Becoming an internal tester at a company is tougher. You’ll have to browse job boards, research companies for open positions, send in applications, and hope for the best.
#4 Selling Account or Digital Items
If you’ve spent enough time in some games, you might be able to “flip” your account or in-game items to other players.
As one example, you can resell some Steam Trading Cards earned by playing games to players who want to collect them. While you won’t make huge money from this, you might be able to earn enough to cover your next game purchase.
If you interest about making money with Steam you can check video right here.
You may also be able to sell accounts. For example, in Overwatch, the practice of using a “smurf” account (a secondary account that’s ranked much lower than the player’s actual skill level) is common.
Since you must reach a certain level to play Competitive matches, players who want to smurf might look to buy an account to save themselves time.
Similarly, a player might pay you to rank up their account if you’re more skilled than them.
While this form of gaming income requires less dedication than most of those mentioned above, it’s still not perfect. Unless you already have extra accounts or rare items sitting around, the time that you must spend to earn them makes it barely worth pursuing.
Grinding a game just to earn new cards or reach a certain level is boring, just like playtesting. And there’s no guarantee that someone will want to buy what you’re selling.
Depending on the terms of service for a particular game, selling your account or other items may be against the rules. Always be sure that you aren’t doing anything wrong before you try this.
Research the games you like to play and see what items from it sell for a good price. A site like PlayerAuctions helps connect buyers and sellers of gaming items.
There are other ways to get creative with this; you might use sites like Fiverr to sell “gaming services” to people who are interested.
#5 Get Paid To Live Stream
Anyone can stream their gameplay in real-time for the world to see. Aim to build a large audience (which you can monetize with ads) or a loyal audience (to monetize with donations and subscriptions). The biggest platform for streaming is Twitch, but YouTube Game is also an option.
Now I’m going to be honest with you:
It takes a long time to build a live stream audience. You may not break 10 viewers for several months, and you may not reach 100 viewers for years.
The reality is that most streamers never reach that point and to earn a living streaming video games, you’ll need thousands of regular viewers.
The streaming landscape is oversaturated. Why should someone watch you when there are plenty of other popular streams to watch?
That’s the tricky part. Set yourself apart with your own brand of humor or personality, by being a world-class player, or by playing games no one else is playing.
Games are fun because they give us a way to escape reality. When gaming becomes your job, that aspect of escapism disappears and likely so will the fun.
Love playing games? Think carefully before turning it into a potential career. You may come to regret it.
