Buying game

Ragnarok advertising isnt actually profitable for most people (even the big newspapers struggle to make money on it), as it is almost always paid for on a unique click basis, so if people dont click on the adverts stephen doesnt get anything. Spacefed has a high pageview figure, but most of that will be people clicking research a few thousand times, as you said...

The problem is that the theoretical earning from adverts is something not-smartic. However this assumes everyone clicks on every advert, and is why valuing webpages is almost impossible.

The original adverts were taken down because it took too long to handle the paperwork relating to them. He simply was not making money on them. Even with google ads you still have to monitor it for click fraud etc.

At best adverts could probably just about cover the hosting costs.

Yes, but we all know a good majority of them are either bots or humans clicking the research button all day long. Good luck turning that into ad revenue. ^_^

From what I remember, Stephen originally took down the ads cuz some of them were "inappropriate" and he also wasn`t getting that much revenue from them anyways. So for a long time, Stephen forwent a lot of potential ad revenue that he could have been getting just from unobtrusive google ads.

rated at 105 k to 1.74 million

thats nuts lol

ive seen gc/uc ads on onemanga lol
but its placed at the not-smart bottom of the page...

I for one would be perfectly happy with adds and such. I mean they don`t affect gameplay. Although it be kinda cool if stephen also started putting adds FOR GC on other websites as well...

http://bizinformation.org/us/www.gamestotal.com

Website Value $1.74 Million
Daily Pageviews 146,439
Daily Visitors 9,653
Worldwide Rank 19,770
United States Rank 45,454

Then again, another website value calculator suggests that the site is worth 1.74 million so take that with a grain of salt. =/

Actually, according to the website, the website is worth $105k, so it`s not necessarily a bad deal if players don`t mind having google ads on the site placed somewhere discretely:

http://www.cubestat.com/www.gc.gamestotal.com


Website Worth: $105,599.61

Daily Pageviews: 48,219

Daily Ads Revenue: $144.66

yep, it`s been tried by a few people. $50,000 USD was the largest amount offered that I know of and he won`t accept.

lol just so u no stephen wouldnt sell unless over 80 thousand USD :O thats the quote he gave

Why not knock on his door and say hi ^_^

just curious anyone from Malaysia here? haha

I am by the way and that address isnt far from where i am

LMAO no one thought of doing a whois query for this game`s website?? Heh ^_^

Hey,atleast we now know where Stephen actually lives,and that he`s real. Now onto finding him and eventually "kindly slapping" him with a baseball bat.

http://www.whois.net/whois/gamestotal.com is the source by the way, so I hope I didn`t break any forum rules since this is public info. There`s even a number you can call in the US under technical contact if you like.

According to the whois information, this game`s domain name will expire next year about this time:

Domain Name: gamestotal.com
Created on .............2003-12-12-07.45.38.000000
Expires on .............2010-12-12-09.45.38.000000
Record last updated on .2009-11-16-16.19.22.818000
Status .................ACTIVE

Administrative Contact:
INO-ONLINE SDN BHD
Stephen Yong
53 Selasar Rokam 22
Taman Ipoh Jaya
Ipoh, Perak
31350, MY
+60.53133002

[email protected]

Technical Contact:
SiteProduct Web Services
Administrator DNS
1 N State Street
12th Floor
Chicago, IL
60602, US
+1.3122362132

A similar game with a few significant differences (such as an anti spam feature and a possible removal of the counter attack feature) is already being attempted by 1 players at least. PM deiloche or archangel for details.

AbusedGuardian. It has been attempted. AragornSU, it has been attempted.
Stephen. ZzzzZzzzZzzz......

AccordEX according to Mara, GC isnt actually making profit anymore. If thats true then the game will be closing whenever the contract with the host/server expires or the domain itself. So really its not all that important to do anything in GC.

Stephen is the owner, i dont believe he did 100% of the work in making this game, i started playing back in the day of beta trails, the last update stephen & treg did.

reverse engineer the game takes time & alot of data input, my own personal experience with that is everyone talks about a NEW WHATEVER, but very very very few people are serious about helping out. Then we do got web-programmers on this game but idk many who can build a copy of this game exactly.

PS: GC needs to be reversed enginnered anyways, the code & database system is old, explains why inputting new information into the game probably is hard to do from staff or stephen point of view.