玩游戏这么赚钱

It’s every little kid’s dream: getting someone to pay you to play the games you already enjoy. And like most dreams, the reality is somewhat underwhelming. A career as a game tester boils down to being an elaborate quality control worker. But there are other ways you can make extra money by gaming at home. Here are a few.

这是每个孩子的梦想：让某人付钱给您玩已经很喜欢的游戏。 像大多数梦一样，现实在某种程度上令人难以置信。 游戏测试员的职业归结为精打细算的质量控制人员。 但是，还有其他方法可以让您在家中游戏赚钱。 这里有一些。

In just about any multiplayer online game, the best gear and weaponry is also the hardest to obtain. And while you might have the kind of disposable time it takes to sink 200 hours into dungeon crawling, raiding, or randomized loot drops, not everyone does. That’s why some of the rarest items in games like?Counter-Strike: Global Offensive?sell for real money on third-party marketplaces. (They’re sold in-game for Steam Wallet credit, too, but those funds can’t be exchanged for real-world cash.)

在几乎所有多人在线游戏中，最好的装备和武器也是最难获得的。 而且，尽管您可能需要花费一定的时间才能将200小时投入地下城的爬行，突袭或随机掉落，但并非每个人都这样。 因此，《反恐精英：全球攻势》等游戏中一些最稀有的物品会在第三方市场上以真实货币出售。 (它们也可以在游戏中以Steam Wallet积分的形式出售，但是这些资金无法兑换成真实的现金。)

CS:GO weapon skins can sell for hundreds—sometimes thousands—of real dollars.

CS：GO武器的皮可以卖到数百美元，有时甚至数千美元。

CS:GO?skins are probably the most lucrative item market in the world at the moment, at lest among games that explicitly allow and enable their in-game loot to be sold outside the game interface.?DOTA 2, another game that relies on Steam’s item trading system, has a similar economy. Players can link their digital inventories with an online sale site like Loot Market, post a price for their item just like it was a real object, and get paid in real-world credit via PayPal, Bitcoin, Steam Wallet credit, or even real bank transfers. Everquest 2, a long-running MMO, allows buying and selling of in-game items for real money in select areas only, with a cut of each transaction going to the developer.

CS：GO皮肤可能是目前世界上最赚钱的物品市场，至少在那些明确允许并允许其游戏内战利品可以在游戏界面之外出售的游戏中。 依靠Steam的物品交易系统的另一款游戏DOTA 2具有类似的经济性。 玩家可以将他们的数字库存与在线拍卖网站(如Loot Market)链接起来，发布其商品的价格，就像是一个真实的物品一样，并通过PayPal，比特币，Steam Wallet信用甚至真实的银行获得真实信用转移。 Everquest 2是一款长期运行的MMO，它仅允许在特定区域内使用真钱买卖游戏中的物品，每笔交易的一部分都归开发商。

It’s important to note that while selling your Steam items through one of these third-party markets is permissible, it’s rather easy to get scammed, since Valve takes no responsibility at all for transactions that happen outside of its system. Most other online games explicitly ban any kind of trading for real-world money (though of course it happens on the sly more or less all the time—see below). The few mainstream games that have tried to have an easy in-and-out relationship with real money have had serious issues with their economies, like Diablo III’s?now-shuttered Auction House.?For this reason, it’s unwise to invest too much time and effort into a high-value item with an intent to sell, when an unscrupulous vendor or player could leave you high and dry. Do your research before trying to sell player-to-player or on a third-party market.

重要的是要注意，虽然可以通过这些第三方市场之一销售您的Steam物品，但很容易被骗，因为Valve对系统外发生的交易不承担任何责任。 大多数其他在线游戏都明确禁止使用任何形式的交易来交易现实世界中的钱(当然，这种交易或多或少总是在不停地发生-见下文)。 少数几款试图与真钱建立起简单进出关系的主流游戏在经济方面存在严重问题，例如暗黑破坏神III现已关闭的拍卖行。 因此，当不道德的供应商或玩家可能会让您高高在干时，将太多的时间和精力投入到具有销售意图的高价值物品上是不明智的。 在尝试出售玩家对玩家或在第三方市场上之前，请进行研究。

Other games allow you to cut out the middleman and exchange the in-game currency directly for real money. Most MMOs and free-to-play games have some mechanism for exchanging real currency for digital coins or credit, but in the perennial life simulator?Second Life, players can turn the “Linden Dollars” they’ve earned in-game back into real money via bank transfer or PayPal (at an exchange rate of more than 200 to one, if you’re wondering).

其他游戏可让您减少中间商并将游戏内货币直接兑换成真实货币。 大多数MMO和免费游戏都有某种机制，可以将真实货币兑换为数字硬币或信用，但是在常年性生活模拟器Second Life中，玩家可以将在游戏中获得的“林登美元”变回真实货币。通过银行转帐或PayPal(如果您想知道，汇率为200比1)。

Entropia Universe,?a space-themed MMO, allows players to buy in-game items for real money with an exchange rate of $1USD to 10PED. That currency can be transferred back out with a stable exchange rate at any time. The developer is so protective of its “Real Cash Economy” that some players use physical One Time PIN systems to log in.

太空主题MMO Entropia Universe允许玩家以1美元对10PED的汇率以真实货币购买游戏内物品。 该货币可以随时以稳定的汇率转回。 开发者非常保护自己的“真实现金经济”，以至于有些玩家使用实际的一次性PIN系统登录。

Other, smaller games?have attempted to create Real Cash Economy systems, with varying degrees of success—many quickly folded or never got out of development. It’s an interesting aspect of the evolving world of gaming, and one that can be expected to grow in unpredictable ways.

其他较小的游戏则尝试创建具有不同程度成功的Real Cash Economy系统，其中很多很快就被淘汰，或者从未退出过开发。 这是不断发展的游戏世界中一个有趣的方面，可以预见它会以无法预测的方式增长。

One of?Second Life‘s most lucrative enterprises is creating digital furniture and other accessories to sell to other players. In a case of?life imitating art, you can do the same thing for some of Valve’s most popular games. Most of the cosmetic items that appear in the shooter?Team Fortress 2?and the multiplayer strategy game?DOTA 2?were created by players, submitted to the developer, and then approved for sale. Each time other players spend real money on those items, the creator gets a small cut, like an author receiving royalties from a book sale.

第二人生最赚钱的企业之一就是创造数字家具和其他配件，以出售给其他玩家。 在模仿生活的艺术中，您可以对Valve的一些最受欢迎的游戏做同样的事情。 射手团队要塞2和多人策略游戏DOTA 2中出现的大多数化妆品都是由玩家创建，提交给开发人员然后批准出售的。 每次其他玩家在这些物品上花费真金白银时，创建者都会得到一笔小小的钱，就像作者从书本销售中收取版税。

Of course, there are significant barriers to entry here. Anyone submitting items for Valve needs to have some basic 3D modelling skills,?and a bit of animation experience doesn’t hurt. Once you’ve created the item it needs to be voted on by the community and selected by Valve…so there’s definitely an element of skill and creativity here.

当然，这里存在很大的进入障碍。 为Valve提交项目的任何人都需要具备一些基本的3D建模技能，并且一点动画体验也不会受到伤害。 一旦创建了该项目，它就需要由社区投票并由Valve进行选择……因此，这里肯定具有技巧和创造力。

Valve briefly experimented with paid mods for popular games like?The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.?But due to the nebulous nature of attribution in the mod market, the scheme fell apart rather quickly. We may see something similar come back in the future.

瓦尔(Valve)短暂地尝试了付费游戏，以开发《上古卷轴V：天际》等热门游戏。 但是由于mod市场中归属的模糊性质，该计划很快就瓦解了。 我们可能会在将来看到类似的情况。

Of course there are other methods for playing games and making money that don’t directly affect in-game economies. But these generally involve combining a passion for video games with real-world skills and talent. YouTube users who record their play sessions and upload it with commentary, collectively known as “Let’s Play” makers or just “Let’s Players,” can make enough money to be considered professional content producers. A variation of this technique is to stream video of your current play session live to an online audience with Twitch and similar services, earning money on advertising and donations.

当然，还有其他玩游戏和赚钱的方法不会直接影响游戏内的经济性。 但是，这些通常涉及将对视频游戏的热情与实际技能和才能相结合。 记录自己的播放会话并上传评论的YouTube用户(统称为“我们播放器”制作者或“我们播放器”)可以赚到足够的钱，被视为专业内容制作者。 此技术的一种变体是使用Twitch和类似服务将当前播放会话的视频实时直播到在线观众手中，从而通过广告和捐赠赚钱。

Professional gamers, those who compete in nation- and world-wide tournaments, can make tens of thousands of dollars for winning a single event. The most popular games are the most lucrative, but game tournaments are now so diverse that most competitive genres are covered, including older real-time strategy games like Starcraft, newfangled MOBAs like?League of Legends?and?DOTA, shooters like?Counter-Strike?and?Overwatch,?and traditional fighting games like?Street Fighter?and?Super Smash Bros. (Starcraft has been jokingly called the “national sport of Korea” for the enormous pro circuit in South Korea alone.)?The market is so big now that gaming leagues and teams are attracting corporate sponsors, just like real sports, allowing the most successful players to depend on competition as a full-time income.

职业游戏玩家，可以参加全国乃至世界范围内的比赛，可以赢得数万美元的奖金。 最受欢迎的游戏是利润最高的游戏，但如今的游戏锦标赛是如此多样化，以至于涵盖了最具竞争力的类型，包括较早的实时战略游戏(如Starcraft) ，新型的MOBA(如英雄联盟和DOTA) ，射击游戏(如Counter-Strike和Overwatch)，以及传统的格斗游戏，例如Street Fighter和Super SmashBros。 (仅因在韩国的巨大职业巡回赛，星际争霸就被戏称为“韩国的民族运动”。)现在市场如此之大，游戏联盟和团队正在吸引企业赞助商，就像真正的体育运动一样，允许最成功的运动员依靠比赛作为全职收入。

If you’re not a particularly “epic” player and you lack the natural showmanship necessary to appeal to a live audience, there’s a huge and growing market for game journalism. Game journalists working for traditional publications and online blogs have to keep abreast of the latest releases and trends, but in a very real sense they get paid to play and review video games… so long as they’re also fairly decent writers as well. If current news coverage or long-form reviews don’t appeal to you, some writers make lucrative incomes creating game guides and selling them on digital book markets like Amazon Kindle.

如果您不是特别的“史诗级”玩家，并且缺乏吸引现场观众所需的自然表演技巧，那么游戏新闻业将有巨大且不断增长的市场。 在传统出版物和在线博客上工作的游戏新闻记者必须紧跟最新的新闻发布和趋势，但从实际意义上讲，只要他们也相当体面的作家，他们就可以获得报酬来玩和评论视频游戏。 如果当前的新闻报道或长篇评论对您没有吸引力，那么一些作家可以赚钱赚钱，他们可以制作游戏指南并将其出售给亚马逊Kindle等数字图书市场。

Of course, all of these avenues for gaming wealth come with a big drawback: you need real talent and dedication to turn them into what’s basically a full-time job. Let’s Players and streamers have to create a stable and loyal following, pro gamers have to practice for hours a day to stay competitive, and game journalists often have to spend years working for practically nothing to build up a resume before they’re hired at a legitimate site or publisher. All of these careers are extremely competitive because, well, people like to play video games. While you work on becoming the next Twitch star or respected reviewer, remember the traditional comedian’s advice: don’t quit your day job.

当然，所有这些游戏财富的途径都有一个很大的缺点：您需要真正的才能和奉献精神，才能将他们转变成基本上是全职工作。 玩家和彩带必须建立稳定和忠诚的追随者，职业玩家必须每天练习数小时才能保持竞争力，游戏记者通常需要花费数年的时间进行几乎没有任何工作来积累简历，然后才能被聘用。合法网站或发布者。 所有这些职业都极具竞争力，因为人们喜欢玩视频游戏。 当您努力成为下一任Twitch明星或受人尊敬的评论者时，请记住传统喜剧演员的建议：不要辞职。

Just because a game doesn’t have an official cash economy doesn’t mean that it has no economy at all. In pretty much every multiplayer game, there’s at least someone who’s willing to pay real money for in-game gold, gear, or even characters. There are entire sites setup to facilitate moving real money around between players who have in-game goods and other players who are willing to pay for them. Players have even been known to sell their Steam accounts, including access to all the games purchased within, for thousands of dollars.

仅仅因为游戏没有官方的现金经济体系，并不意味着它根本就没有经济体系。 在几乎所有的多人游戏中，至少有人愿意为游戏中的金币，装备甚至角色支付真实的钱。 设置了完整的站点，以方便在拥有游戏内商品的玩家和愿意为之付费的其他玩家之间转移真实货币。 甚至众所周知，玩家可以以数千美元的价格出售其Steam帐户，包括访问其中购买的所有游戏。

The problem is that, with the exception of the games listed above, most?multiplayer games list transactions outside of the game itself as a violation of its terms of service. Paying real money for those super-shiny pants in League of Legends?or that fully-leveled character in?World of Warcraft?isn’t illegal—which is to say, there’s no way doing so can actually land either party in jail. But if the administrators of the game find out you’ve been “gold farming” or brokering high-value items for cash, they can boot both you and your customers out of the game for violating the terms of service.

问题是，除了上面列出的游戏外，大多数多人游戏都将游戏之外的交易列为违反其服务条款的行为。 为《英雄联盟》中的那些超级闪亮的裤子或《魔兽世界》中的高水平角色支付真钱并不是违法的-也就是说，这样做实际上不可能使任何一方入狱。 但是，如果游戏管理员发现您从事“淘金”活动或为现金交易高价值物品，他们可能会因为违反服务条款而使您和您的客户退出游戏。

This “grey market” fringe status tends to attract a lot of less salubrious elements to the out-of-game gold and item markets. Scams and fraud are rampant, even on sites that insist they’re completely safe. The takeaway here is that, unless you have that rare item or account worth thousands of real-world dollars,?and?you don’t mind risking it to turn a quick buck, trying to make real money off of markets that are against game rules isn’t a winning proposition in the long run. At the end of the day, it’s probably best to let games be what they are: fun.

这种“灰色市场”边缘地位倾向于吸引游戏外的黄金和物品市场的许多不利因素。 诈骗和欺诈行为猖ramp，即使在坚持认为它们绝对安全的网站上也是如此。 这里的要点是，除非您拥有价值几千美元的稀有物品或帐户，并且您不介意冒着快速赚钱的风险，否则尝试从违反游戏规则的市场中赚钱从长远来看，这不是一个成功的主张。 归根结底，最好让游戏成为它们的样子：有趣。

Image Credit: CS:GO Stash, Loot Market, Entropia Universe blog, DreamHack/Flickr, PlayerAuctions

图片来源： CS：GO Stash ，战利品市场， Entropia Universe博客， DreamHack / Flickr， PlayerAuctions

翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/306389/how-to-make-real-money-playing-video-games/

玩游戏这么赚钱