How to Legally Make Real Money Playing an Online Video Game

Several Years of Everquest 2 Experience

Everquest 2 is highly unique in allowing and supporting the sale of game items, currency and characters by players on its Exchange enabled servers. It is a player driven economy rather than one dictated by the game publisher. Over the past few years I've been playing the game as a source of income. Prices have varied greatly, but right now I can make $30 to $40 a day if i put in a full 8 hours.

There are many ways of playing the game for profit. The one I currently use involves playing four characters simultaneously. I have 3 groups of 4 characters. The 3 groups alternate doing missions to gain items called "Void Shards" that can be exchanged for various things. I gather 50 or 100 shards and auction them on the exchange at a rate of about 50 cents per shard.

At other times I have simply killed normal "trash" monsters all day collecting the frequent but low value items, selling those items in game to get platinum (the top currency in the game) coins. I would then sell the platinum through the exchange system.

Other methods are gathering "collectables" to sell, harvesting resources for crafting, and even setting up your own raid force to take down the hardest content and sell the loot from those encounters to the casual players.

The game costs $40, but you get all the expansions with it. Monthly fees are $15, but it's easy to earn more than that if you are trying.