Comments on: How Much Money Can You Make Selling Video Games Online

By: Juuso

Juuso — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:43:53 +0000

You can use for example Big Fish Games PNP – there’s free catalog of games, and you get about 25% cut of the profits.
(I’m using that, and also promoting their system as an affiliate)

By: David

David — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:06:32 +0000

I would like to know if it is possible to sell latest available games online through a personal website. How much would it cost to get a license from authorized gaming companies in order to resell their games. Is there any other formality involved in this ?

By: Suzie

Suzie — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:14:03 +0000

I think the internet has made it possible to sell almost anything, as long as you’re web-savvy. A lot of people with niche interests out there…

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By: mooktown blog

mooktown blog — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:00:59 +0000

Hey… that was my idea!…

[..]It was a free game as I was only making games as a hobby back then, and had no idea how much an indie dev could make from this ‘hobby’[..]…

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:23:12 +0000

Phwoar: Juuso is, to my knowledge, not someone who speaks English as his first language, so you can forgive a bit of grammatical slip-up.

Juuso, you really ought to investigate other business models besides sales, as the trends seem to show growth in other models, with a general decline in sales.

For example, and in order of innovation: subscriptions, advertising, micro-transactions, skill-gaming, integrated advertising.

By: Blueskied

Blueskied — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:15:55 +0000

Thanks, Jake. Didn’t know Xmas Bonus was a publisher’s idea.

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:09:05 +0000

It means that I was working on a match-3 engine 2 years ago and the publisher said in October or something, “Hey, why don’t you make a Christmas themed match-3, and we’ll see if it makes any sales”. So I did, and it did.

I actually re-launched it last December on BFG at full price, and on Reflexive and some others at 50% off (including my own site which was new then) and made some more sales, plus it still sells copies every month.

Juuso: new sales stats if you are interested: Total Sold now = 377! I personally have made around $1100 net profit (after ALL my expenses including some relaunch expenses and after all publisher/portal fees). This is not a lot of money but then I reused the engine for Easter Bonus and made more net profit. Then I remade the engine in BlitzMax and made 2 more match-3 games and made even more money, then I got hired by BFG and that’s where the story is currently.

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By: Phwoar

Phwoar — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:35:29 +0000

grammar in post very bad