How does Tankpit generate revenue?

by **invazn** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:49 am

I've always wondered how websites with no advertisements make money.

by **Cdub** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:15 am

"not for profit" or donations i suppose?

by **Jay** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:02 am

I always thought it didn't make money, free game no profits. It must cost to host the game so there is a (or some) generous people out there letting us play and paying for it. Although if I was the owners I would stick some advertising on the website to generate a little income for the upkeep of the game.

by **UNBREAK** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:24 am

I believe they will once there is a large player base. Having advertisement now would counteract that.

by **invazn** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:36 pm

Cdub wrote:"not for profit" or donations i suppose?

I do not think it is a not for profit company. Even if it is, not for profit companies still need revenue to pay their employees and overhead costs.

UNBREAK wrote:I believe they will once there is a large player base. Having advertisement now would counteract that.

There weren't any ads on playbattlefield.com either.

by **wardizzle** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:05 pm

TP could sell information to Google and Facebook regarding how much time your IP spends on the TankPit website so that those two can better target their ads at you.

Same with uTanks, except they have an advantage because they require an e-mail activation. Google and Facebook can track where and how often you use that e-mail address to register for other websites and determine effective marketing techniques any time you log in somewhere with that account name.

Here's an example:
http://techland.time.com/2012/02/17/how ... r-parents/

by **UNBREAK** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:32 pm

invazn wrote:
Cdub wrote:"not for profit" or donations i suppose?

I do not think it is a not for profit company. Even if it is, not for profit companies still need revenue to pay their employees and overhead costs.

UNBREAK wrote:I believe they will once there is a large player base. Having advertisement now would counteract that.

There weren't any ads on playbattlefield.com either.

I thought they did, when we went DTT they went broke?

by **wardizzle** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:49 pm

No, the ads were a part of the business model used on Bonus.com.

by **JZ515** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:55 pm

Does anyone know who is running the game right now? is it old members of Bonus.com just doing it on there own or has the Bonus.com people opened it back up

edit: considering bonus.com no longer exist I guess its not them.

by **Sylar** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:16 pm

Unbent media owned the rights to battlefield. They offered to give the rights to the ut staff in turn for the ut staff reworking the game/splitting the profits with unbent. bsg turned that down tho. Im assuming sw found the email, contacted unbent and took them up on their offer.

by **UNBREAK** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:24 pm

So it seems the consensus is that SW is running tankpit? SW=General Lucy???

If that's true, I regret writing a love letter to General Lucky :(

by **KonArtis** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:26 pm

UNBREAK wrote:So it seems the consensus is that SW is running tankpit? SW=General Lucy???

If that's true, I regret writing a love letter to General Lucky :(

No he is not running it. He is part of it all, a key figure but not running it.

by **UNBREAK** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:49 pm

So do you know the group that's running this?

by **JZ515** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:02 pm

SW actually is part of the operation of TP? wow i feel bad for calling his a douche then....THKS SW.

if hes part of it, why does he always talk about hoping for awards...can't he just give himself the award lol?

by **Sidney** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:29 pm

He's being sarcastic. When SW didn't win a DoT during the first month, it was apparent that he was in on the TP project ;) He was always an award hound.

by **HurleY** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:38 am

Sidney wrote: He was always an award hound.

lol'd

by **Cdub** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:33 am

most people dont know this but they actually sell the specialty awards for $$$. i think dots are around a grand and lbulbs are 5k

by SW » Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:42 am

A lot of websites don't make money they are just run as a hobby.

Most new websites also do not make money.

Time will tell, maybe TankPit will introduce something in the future.

by **invazn** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:23 am

SW wrote:A lot of websites don't make money they are just run as a hobby.

Yea, maybe Pinky's Battlefield Base. Running a game such as TankPit can rack up quite extensive bills. Few people would spend thousands of dollars out-of-pocket to run a game as a hobby.

SW wrote:Most new websites also do not make money.

Because their revenue does not exceed expenses. But they still generate revenue. My question is how does TankPit generate revenue?

by **Jake** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:11 am

My guess is that it doesn't at this moment in time.

I also have my suspicions over who is involved...I thought certain peoples' involvement was obvious. They let slip on the forums things they should not. Maybe it's just because I'm the only one who reads every single post and always has :loading: