{"id":430702,"date":"2022-04-12T20:21:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-to-make-money-by-playing-video-games\/"},"modified":"2022-04-12T20:21:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:21:25","slug":"how-to-make-money-by-playing-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-to-make-money-by-playing-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"#How to make money by playing video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a303a65418c2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a303a65418c2\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-to-make-money-by-playing-video-games\/#%E2%80%9CHow_to_make_money_by_playing_video_games%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;How to make money by playing video games&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHow_to_make_money_by_playing_video_games%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;How to make money by playing video games&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            As the crypto craze permeates the world of online gaming, playing for fun could become just another bit of nostalgia\n                        <\/div>\n<div>\n                                                                        As I play another turn in <em>Skyweaver<\/em>, I watch helplessly as my avatar is defeated yet again\u2014probably by someone half my age. The digital card <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> is best compared to <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>, or a sci-fi version of chess: colourful character cards face off on a virtual playing field. There are formidable opponents and plenty of strategic challenges. The twist is that while the game is free to join, rare cards will cost you\u2014assuming you consider cryptocurrency to be real money.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, online gaming has evolved from a niche nerdy pursuit into a mainstream cultural touchstone. Crypto, on the other hand, remains an opaque concept to most people. <em>Skyweaver<\/em> is part of a growing trend in gaming: it incorporates blockchain <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> in the form of non-fungible tokens. <em>Skyweaver<\/em>\u2019s NFTs, which are essentially digital certificates of ownership, give users the rights to characters, cards and even digital outfits\u2014all of which would have been one-time purchases in the past. This means that today\u2019s players don\u2019t just own pieces of their go-to games. They can actually profit from them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Two paintings by a beloved Nova Scotia folk artist have vanished. Can they have gone far?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There is big, real money floating around the field. Last year, Parallel Studios, a blockchain-centric entertainment company headquartered in Toronto, raised $50 million in funding; <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> co-founder Chad Hurley is one of their advisers. Around the same time, Vancouver\u2019s D<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er Labs, which created <em>NBA Top Shot<\/em> and has well over a million users, raised $250 million.<\/p>\n<p>Kohji Nagata, the head of games at <em>Parallel Studios<\/em>, often compares his company\u2019s game <em>Parallel Life<\/em> to <em>Magic: The Gathering<\/em>, its analog predecessor. The game\u2019s cards double as NFTs, which means they can be traded on a <em>Parallel<\/em>-hosted marketplace, allowing players to offload virtual items or earn crypto from rare finds. Ordinary cards sell for around the cost of a latte, but harder-to-find ones have fetched an eye-watering $350,000.<\/p>\n<p>Trading virtual goods is already possible on traditional gaming platforms, like the massively popular Steam, but crypto boosters claim that their version is more democratic. \u201cOur aim is to allow people to own the assets they have in-game, and just do whatever they\u2019d like with them,\u201d Nagata says. \u201cOn a grander scale, we want to create a blockchain-gaming ecosystem that other games can fit into, without having to build all the infrastructure themselves.\u201d If Nagata has his way, the precious characters players collect in one game could easily be transferred to another.<\/p>\n<p><em>Skyweaver<\/em> co-founder Michael Sanders, who has worked in gaming since 2010, sees the blockchain revolution as part of a broader shift toward Web3, the catch-all term for the internet\u2019s next, crypto-enabled phase. \u201cIn Web 2.0, you have sites like Facebook or YouTube, where people can interact with one another,\u201d Sanders says. \u201cIn Web3, you get the internet of value\u2014a full-blown digital economy with more ownership and community control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Switching from Web 2.0\u2019s corporate-gatekeeper model to one where people own a piece of the networks they participate in seems like a noble goal. There is a reason, though, that blockchain gaming is mainly being adopted by collectible-card games: it arguably isn\u2019t very good for much else yet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>READ:\u00a0As photo booths disappear, the pictures they gave us are ever more precious<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Brendan Sinclair, the managing editor of GamesIndustry.biz, is deeply skeptical of blockchain gaming. \u201cProponents are promising to revolutionize the video game space,\u201d he says. \u201cBut most of the many companies that are pursuing it are very fuzzy on the details, and on what they think blockchain technology can bring to games that can\u2019t already be done.\u201d Sinclair points to the potential problems of transferring items from one game to another: companies are constantly editing software, so simply plunking down a new thing from another game could upend that careful curation.<\/p>\n<p>If you think one of the issues with the modern world is that everything is commodified, Web3 and blockchain gaming\u2019s promise of user-focused commerce could easily become part of the problem. It\u2019s hard not to feel a bit wistful about rifling through the detritus of childhood\u2014trading cards, action figures and other collectibles\u2014in our extremely online times. But as we\u2019ve shifted our entertainment from physical goods to the virtual sort, the integration of NFTs means we get to keep a sense of ownership. We used to buy games just to enjoy them, but now they have the potential to become an income stream.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>This article appears in print in the May 2022 issue of<\/em> Maclean\u2019s <em>magazine with the headline, \u201cPlay for pay.\u201d Subscribe to the monthly print magazine <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.macleans.ca\/loc\/MME\/head_subscribe\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"under-article-widget-nl\">\n<p class=\"under-article-widget-title\">Looking for more?<\/p>\n<p class=\"under-article-widget-description\">Get the best of <em>Maclean&#8217;s<\/em> sent straight to your inbox. 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