Comments on: Computer Games: My Biggest Crux

By: satheesh

satheesh — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:37:49 +0000

hi……..

By: Tom Davenport

Tom Davenport — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:56:44 +0000

I miss playing computer games since I had a kid – used to love the final fantasy series, and Timesplitters…

By: Mike Henry

Mike Henry — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:03:34 +0000

Back in the day, you could make money playing WoW. People used to sell gold on ebay or other sites like that. There are services where you can register as a guide and be paid to level up people.

By: Zac Johnson

Zac Johnson — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:50:03 +0000

I personally wasted so much time on World of Warcraft… though I haven’t played in almost a year now.

By: Dot Com Dud

Dot Com Dud — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:52:59 +0000

Haha. TF2 was my gaming addiction for awhile too, before that it was CSS and right now I’m going between COD4 and Lord of the Rings: Online. I figured this would be a problem when I had to choose between gaming and blogging so I set myself up dual-boot operating systems, one with the games and one for work, takes the temptation away because a few quick rounds can easily turn into a 4 hour gaming session!

By: Paul Piotrowski

Paul Piotrowski — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:36:40 +0000

My addiction as far as video games go is World of Warcraft. I’m not as bad as many others, but I used to play quite a bit. Now I just use the game as a reward for after I get all my income producing activities done.

One of the benefits of taking the risk of being an entrepreneur and working at home for yourself IS that you can have some fun and play games. For example, if you make $5,000/month working 1 hour per day and then spend the next 12 hours playing a video game, and you’re happy with that lifestyle right now, who cares?

How is that any worse than someone who works 12 hour days, comes home and doesn’t play any games at all and only makes $4,000/month?

One day you’ll have more responsibilities, like kids and stuff and then you won’t have time for games, so why not indulge while you can?

I don’t think you’ll ever see a person on their death-bed saying “Oh I wish I worked harder and had way less fun…”

By: Paul Piotrowski

Paul Piotrowski — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:30:59 +0000

That’s the great thing about making money online. It’s not just for English Majors.

Pat O’Bryan talked about this in his “Portable Empire” book. He was saying that when you’re writing your content, it’s only important for people to know what you mean, not to have perfect grammar. Pat’s grammar/spelling is horrible and he said that his grammar teacher would be horrified to see his writing. However, Pat said that he also makes about 10-30x as much money per year as his grammar teacher so who’s really the “smart guy”?

When I read that book it helped me to get over that fear of being judged for not having perfect English. I try not to make grammatical mistakes and re-read all my posts again before posting just to make sure everything makes sense, but sometimes I too make grammatical mistakes. It’s the only way to stop the avoidance behavior of being a perfectionists and to actually get something published.

It’s a Blog, not a book. If Tyler ever writes a book, he can always hire an editor to fix all the grammatical mistakes.

By: Andrei Buiu

Andrei Buiu — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:08:34 +0000

Well, I had an addiction for Project Entropia – a MMORPG where you could buy things with real money and sell them for real money (10PED=1USD). So IF you looted something, you could sell it after and make real money. I’ve played it for like 2 years then I have to uninstall it because I wanted to get my high school diploma.