tweakdev
Newbie
- Jan 15, 2020
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A little about me, I have been on this forum as a lurker for quite awhile. I am supervisor in a private security company working 9h shifts and sometimes 12 hours. A dev on my spare time working on small projects, been programming since I was 16 years old.
I have a wife and no kids. My problems are procrastination, laziness and video game addicted.
To put it simple, today something happened with my health and lately my work has been very crappy and starting to be a bit dangerous. It's time to put an end to this by making things slightly better for me and my family. My goal is a very simple one, change company and invest the money I will earn here in something better unless I can scale this.
Plan:
It's simple, me and my team will be opening a private server of an old MMORPG that was successful back in 2005-2013 and, well, we already have experience on how to build it and know the game. We had 3 servers already with different concepts and we all earned quite some money with it but this time it is different. Why ?
Well instead of competing against each others (we have been friends for some years) we will join together to bring something better, we have better tools nowadays, better ways to add custom features and updated server files that only one competitor has so yeah, with all this the competition just got low since we only have 1 to compete against.
This time we will focus on building our community and target Asia, to be precise: KR, TH and PH.
We will be earning by donations, the game is heavily P2W and a few things can be acquired with some grind. My idea is to trick, persuade or just try to get people to donate for something that they might need or... compete against someone else. Challenge is that our players are all those that already played long time ago, it's hard to get new players to play.
Team:
Me - Nearly 15 years exp with programming in general. I will manage the team, project and help with the development of the server (updates to be precise).
Person A - His programming knowledge is basic but editing the game files and everything is bigger than mine. A will take care of the heavy edits of the server.
Person B - Same thing as Person A, but has more knowledge with the game itself. B will be in charge of hosting/organizing events and updating the game along with managing our US/EU players that will come for sure.
Person C - His Web dev skills are superb. He built the whole website for us, very customizable with new stuff the game didn't have. He helped with connecting the login to the website and send data vice-versa and the list keeps going.
Marketer - He is temporary until he proves his skills. He contacted Person B for something else, but since we were looking for someone to manage marketing and take care of the asian community we decided to talk to him since he knows the community already and what to do or so we hope. He is receiving a % of the donations.
How to earn:
Well, so far our only ideas is by donations. So we have a type of premium shop ingame, where people buy ingame currency with real money so the players can spend their points in things like cosmetics, better gear and so on.
My idea is to get people's attention somehow to spend more than what they need. I want to make those players that like to spend money, to show off their stuff to others and maybe even build type of a donation ranking table on the website. This part is one that I have to brainstorm a lot.
Progress:
- Facebook Group (We are focusing on Facebook only for now)
- Discord Server (This is used heavily)
- Website (It has many features, we will focus on doing some stuff here since the server files have some restrictions so this is also our key to success)
- All bugs were fixed, we added some custom and took advantage of systems we have ingame to make them juicier. I can explain in a reply to not make this longer.
- Different payment methods because... complications so we are using PaymentWall.
- Free & Paid Battlepass (This game never had this so we decided to get something from a modern game and put on an older game and that is the battlepass system implement on the website.
- Quest/Achievements on the website, this gives special resources.
- Collect cards and submit them for a permanent bonus, something we came up with to build more economy ingame.
- VIP Benefits.
- Trello for project management.
- Excel for financial analysis.
TODO:
- Get a cheap VPS in Singapore/Thailand
- New domain
- Publish game (max by 16th of October)
- Start hype & build community (kinda late but oh well)
- Come up with better systems/ideas to make player spend money.
- Ideas for more marketing, find if something is better than Facebook
- Try Reddit, Youtube and Tiktok
- Something to bring new players (New player don't know how to play so my solution is maybe record shorts of small tutorials)
Budget: $100 - That's all we are going to use first month.
This is going to be an experiment to see if I can bring 1k/month individually before 2024 too invest in another business or scale up! I am sure the total revenue potential for this could be 5k-10k a month unless I am deeply wrong. Took me awhile to type this, I really enjoy to read Journeys and I have been doing this for a long time, today it was my turn to do it and see if I can progress further with this.
If I can provide some value in any way, let me know. All suggestions are very appreciated too!
I have a wife and no kids. My problems are procrastination, laziness and video game addicted.
To put it simple, today something happened with my health and lately my work has been very crappy and starting to be a bit dangerous. It's time to put an end to this by making things slightly better for me and my family. My goal is a very simple one, change company and invest the money I will earn here in something better unless I can scale this.
Plan:
It's simple, me and my team will be opening a private server of an old MMORPG that was successful back in 2005-2013 and, well, we already have experience on how to build it and know the game. We had 3 servers already with different concepts and we all earned quite some money with it but this time it is different. Why ?
Well instead of competing against each others (we have been friends for some years) we will join together to bring something better, we have better tools nowadays, better ways to add custom features and updated server files that only one competitor has so yeah, with all this the competition just got low since we only have 1 to compete against.
This time we will focus on building our community and target Asia, to be precise: KR, TH and PH.
We will be earning by donations, the game is heavily P2W and a few things can be acquired with some grind. My idea is to trick, persuade or just try to get people to donate for something that they might need or... compete against someone else. Challenge is that our players are all those that already played long time ago, it's hard to get new players to play.
Team:
Me - Nearly 15 years exp with programming in general. I will manage the team, project and help with the development of the server (updates to be precise).
Person A - His programming knowledge is basic but editing the game files and everything is bigger than mine. A will take care of the heavy edits of the server.
Person B - Same thing as Person A, but has more knowledge with the game itself. B will be in charge of hosting/organizing events and updating the game along with managing our US/EU players that will come for sure.
Person C - His Web dev skills are superb. He built the whole website for us, very customizable with new stuff the game didn't have. He helped with connecting the login to the website and send data vice-versa and the list keeps going.
Marketer - He is temporary until he proves his skills. He contacted Person B for something else, but since we were looking for someone to manage marketing and take care of the asian community we decided to talk to him since he knows the community already and what to do or so we hope. He is receiving a % of the donations.
How to earn:
Well, so far our only ideas is by donations. So we have a type of premium shop ingame, where people buy ingame currency with real money so the players can spend their points in things like cosmetics, better gear and so on.
My idea is to get people's attention somehow to spend more than what they need. I want to make those players that like to spend money, to show off their stuff to others and maybe even build type of a donation ranking table on the website. This part is one that I have to brainstorm a lot.
Progress:
- Facebook Group (We are focusing on Facebook only for now)
- Discord Server (This is used heavily)
- Website (It has many features, we will focus on doing some stuff here since the server files have some restrictions so this is also our key to success)
- All bugs were fixed, we added some custom and took advantage of systems we have ingame to make them juicier. I can explain in a reply to not make this longer.
- Different payment methods because... complications so we are using PaymentWall.
- Free & Paid Battlepass (This game never had this so we decided to get something from a modern game and put on an older game and that is the battlepass system implement on the website.
- Quest/Achievements on the website, this gives special resources.
- Collect cards and submit them for a permanent bonus, something we came up with to build more economy ingame.
- VIP Benefits.
- Trello for project management.
- Excel for financial analysis.
TODO:
- Get a cheap VPS in Singapore/Thailand
- New domain
- Publish game (max by 16th of October)
- Start hype & build community (kinda late but oh well)
- Come up with better systems/ideas to make player spend money.
- Ideas for more marketing, find if something is better than Facebook
- Try Reddit, Youtube and Tiktok
- Something to bring new players (New player don't know how to play so my solution is maybe record shorts of small tutorials)
Budget: $100 - That's all we are going to use first month.
This is going to be an experiment to see if I can bring 1k/month individually before 2024 too invest in another business or scale up! I am sure the total revenue potential for this could be 5k-10k a month unless I am deeply wrong. Took me awhile to type this, I really enjoy to read Journeys and I have been doing this for a long time, today it was my turn to do it and see if I can progress further with this.
If I can provide some value in any way, let me know. All suggestions are very appreciated too!
