What Players make money from wow and how?

[Sam DeathWalker]

Is anyone making any real life money from wow, in a ligit fashion? Seems that this Swifty guy is making something: http://www.twitch.tv/swifty and this guy seems to make a LOT from video gaming but I am not sure what he does: http://www.machinima.com/affiliates. I am thinking that if I can kill Galleon solo box I want to somehow get some cash from the video; any ideas?

[zenga]

It's all about your CPM, or how much money you get per view. Some youtubers get into a larger organisation such as machinima, some stay solo. Some people get as much as 3$ per 1k viewers, some won't even get a fraction of that. It all depends about the advertisers and your content. That swifty channel that you linked is one of the biggest and longest youtubers/streamers for WoW, and he makes 100,000's of dollars.

Killing galeon solo as a boxer might get some attention, but frankly no one will give a shit. You might get a few k views, heck maybe even 50k views, and all you will be able to do is buy a pack of cigarettes and maybe a beer with the profit.

If _you_ want to start making money, then your best bet is to stream with a webcam on, sitting in your leather hot pants and have some half naked chicks dancing behind you. And release some videos on youtube.

[luxlunae]

I agree with zenga, I just don't think there is enough of an interest in multiboxing to become a reasonably paid streamer. Someone who knows more can correct me if I'm wrong, but to make real money you have to have people coming back to your twitch again and again, not visiting for one-off things like a galleon kill.

[MiRai]

To make decent money off of streaming you need one, or more, of the following (list not complete and in no particular order):

• Be amazing at what you're doing
• Be interesting and unrepetitive
• Cause drama
• Show your face
• Entertain the viewers
• Either constantly stream for hours on end or continue to release new videos on video sites

[zenga]

Youtube and twitch are basically eachothers opposites on how they work:

- on twitch you make money in the momentum, from ads (really low and adblock browser addons kinda kill that market), but most make it from donations/subs (for 5$ a month you can subscribe to your favorite streamers and get some extra perks in that channel). I still don't understand why someone in his right mind would donate to a streamer, but apparently many people do, to the extend that a couple make really good money with streaming.

- on youtube you don't make most money from releasing a new video (except when it's bleeding edge), but way more from the videos you have already published. Publishing new content on youtube is often more of a long term deal.

[MadMilitia]

It's all about your CPM, or how much money you get per view. Some youtubers get into a larger organisation such as machinima, some stay solo. Some people get as much as 3$ per 1k viewers, some won't even get a fraction of that. It all depends about the advertisers and your content. That swifty channel that you linked is one of the biggest and longest youtubers/streamers for WoW, and he makes 100,000's of dollars.

Killing galeon solo as a boxer might get some attention, but frankly no one will give a shit. You might get a few k views, heck maybe even 50k views, and all you will be able to do is buy a pack of cigarettes and maybe a beer with the profit.

If _you_ want to start making money, then your best bet is to stream with a webcam on, sitting in your leather hot pants and have some half naked chicks dancing behind you. And release some videos on youtube.

Zenga hits the nail on the head! Nothing Swifty does is actually anymore legit than doing what Zenga says to do.

Sam you're a much more interesting fellow than Swifty. You ought to join Twitch. I'm sure you'd get viewers.

[Dranny817]

sign up and start streaming on twitch and see how it goes, you can get setup and running at no cost. So no harm in trying.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well I looked into twitch, it dosnt seem reasonable to keep people entertained for hour after hour, I mean there is just not that much action going on in the game, lots of my time is doing AH, doing Guild admin and trade skillz all boring as can be. I guess Ill try youtube for now and see how it goes. My first video ever is me and a friend attacking Seven Stars! I boldly go where no horde has gone before! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLWlZ0B-QwA no sound cause that's just another copyright hassel.

[zenga]

Well I looked into twitch, it dosnt seem reasonable to keep people entertained for hour after hour, I mean there is just not that much action going on in the game, lots of my time is doing AH, doing Guild admin and trade skillz all boring as can be. I guess Ill try youtube for now and see how it goes. My first video ever is me and a friend attacking Seven Stars! I boldly go where no horde has gone before! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLWlZ0B-QwA no sound cause that's just another copyright hassel.

I gave it a go ... and well ... not sure how to proceed. It's up to you if you want feedback or not (it can be pretty harsh), but with videos like that I'm afraid you aren't going to make a single dollar.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Sure lets have some critique