Major Erection Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 I'm curious to how much sites like backpack.tf or tf2outpost makes. I'm pretty sure there are hundreds of people donating and buying premium on backpack.tf and tf2outpost. I know sites like csgolounge makes most of their money off betting but since there is no betting on backpack.tf, how much do they make? Also do the creators do this fulltime? Please don't hate on me for being a noob :/ Just really curious to how do people maintain community sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayTuut Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Backpack.tf makes this: http://backpack.tf/top/donators + this https://backpack.tf/advertise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♠Derpeh♤ Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Just really curious to how do people maintain community sites Either taking a cut from people using their services, adverts, donations or payment for their services and to some extent sponsorship. As far as I know think only scrap.tf and CS:GO lounge owners are full time (?) fairly certain snezza is not full time and someone posted brad's profile for some job thingo a while back so he probably isnt full time either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Oddball Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 All scrap.tf staff are paid a good amount, devs get paid a lot more than mods/admins though. I don't really know how much they get paid, but it's enough to have bat-country live off it. That should be enough to know how much they make. Background info Jesse doesn't want out, oops I'm already banned <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilobacon Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Backpack.tf makes this: http://backpack.tf/top/donators + this https://backpack.tf/advertise Don't you still need to factor in premium fees? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cares Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 http://backpack.tf/lotto/stats Item donations go (mostly) towards the mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberny Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Well, marketplace.tf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Erection Posted November 25, 2015 Author Share Posted November 25, 2015 And here I thought, they're making just enough to maintain the site. How naive can I be :/ Pretty awesome that people are able to survive solely on tf2 alone. GABEN, I'M IMPRESSED BY YOUR POWER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayTuut Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Don't you still need to factor in premium fees? No, premium goes to mods and admins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mengh. Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Backpack.tf makes a lot of money mainly from ads and probably a ehh-ish portion from their lotto. CSGOLounge is somewhat similar, however, they may also get some money from taking a share of the bets on their site. Because of it becoming the mainstream site for betting on csgo matches, I'd say that they'd be earning quite a lot a day. Creators don't really have to be full-time however, the commitment from the start till alpha of their project has to be consistent in order to get things done. Once everything's set up, you can then just sit back and relax. People maintain the community by doing giveaways / an incentive in order to get people to join. It's all a marketing ploy that reels in more people. If you want to know how to maintain 'community sites', well, you just need to employ / recruit some moderators so that it doesn't become a craphole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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