Online games are increasingly becoming more and more popular. I had an epiphany while playing a game called Call of Duty 4. I thought; what if business' would pay you to PLAY games? The only catch is a very small; play with the business' site-name. Let's say Digital Point paid me to create and play an account with the name "DigitalPoint.com" and I'd have to play a certain amount of games before I would get paid. Or maybe they could set increments so every 100 games I'd play I'd get paid so much money or I'd have to play so long/get to a certain level. This idea could also work for forums, if they permitted it - Maybe you could get paid per post. Do you guys think this could possibly work? I'd appreciate any kind of suggestion or criticism and I won't take much offense as this is just an idea I had.
From experience I can say that advertising within game servers is terrible. Virtually no one actually types in the url, and if they do they bounce fast. Most game severs also kick/ban people advertising within their names anyway. It's just not economical.
On console games (such as Ps3, Xbox 360 etc.) you are unable to kick people. But I was also wondering whether they would actually got here or not. It'd be an interesting test.
Not positive, but I am fairly certain that the xbox live membership forbids you from using website names in as your username.
Oh ok...I believe the console "Ps3" actually doesn't. I'd have to double check on that though. But other PC games could be a possibility to. Maybe even a smaller MUD type of game.