How much can I charge?

[Julio]

Hello,

I have a game server and it is ranked in the top 50 in gametracker.com. It is full for 12+ hours a day and sometimes the game server goes one full week without getting empty people stay gaming around the clock.

I want to charge for placing a text add that rotates every 12 minutes. The ad will show in the text chat area in the game. I have made a red box to show the position where the text ad is going to be displayed.



I'm guessing this game server gets around 2,000+ connections a day. I have seen people connected to this game server for 8+ hours playing.

Can someone give me an idea on how much i can charge for the displaying the text advert?

 

[netzilla]

Have you seen this type of thing being done at any of your competitor's websites ? If so then their rates could give your a pretty good idea of what to charge. I would think the $ value would depend on a lot of the demographics of the players. Do you have any of that data available ?

 

[Julio]

Thank YOU! for the reply netzilla,

I don't think this has been done before. The server is located in Chicago. I'm sure that people from the us and canada are visiting the server. I have a ping limit set at 200 so if anyone that is farther away will be kicked.

 

[netzilla]

Well in that case you need to establish a base line somehow. Maybe run a "free-for-a-month" ad program for people her at NP. Then you can take those metrics and present them to your advertisers to justify your price.

 

[Julio]

Thanks Netzilla,

I'm going to experiment with it and see how it goes.