Ways to generate revenue from free to play games?

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Other than in-app purchases, ads and paid dlc’s are their other ways to generate revenue from free to play games?

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Things that have been done through games, that may or may not be up to your ethical standards, depending on specifics and degree of disclosure/opt-in:

  • Selling T-shirts, coffee cups, PVC figures, and other merch. (Make sure to have an anime princess mech pilot in there somewhere for maximum $1000 figurine potential.)
  • Reservations for plots of land in what will surely be the only virtual world in the future.
  • Build a minigame out of solving Amazon Mechanical Turk tasks.
  • Mining monero with the users GPU in the background.
  • Pre-sales of in-game special assets that maybe will be released in the future.
  • Using your players as a botnet that you can rent to the highest bidder.
  • Make your players fill out surveys and sell the demographic data. (That’s what all the survey sites do, btw.)
  • Sell the blockchain rights to your game digital assets as NFTs, one at a time, in a weekly auction.

I’m sure there are more. People are quite ingenious when it comes to making money!

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