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So let’s start with how I made my first $ with my favorite game.
(I spent hours to dig memories and old files from 15 years ago 😅)
Without surprise, this game is Guild Wars. Over 20,000h of fun, grinding titles, farming items and of course of trading! And I made lifelong friends along the way. ❤️
I realized later video games teach us a lot of skills: English (for non-native), social skills, team-leading, and even trading (Kamadan → Trading Post). For me it was all this and so much more.
Others might learn coding with botting (many I know became full-time devs later).
Personally, I learned entrepreneurship by flipping pixels.
That’s why I love the idea of Gamoniz new mission:
inspire gamers to learn valuable skills.
If I can pass that spark to one reader, mission accomplished. ✅
My first transaction
Do you remember your first transaction with real money? I do.
(Maybe I was your first? 😄)
My hands were shaking on my first trade.
I was 15, broke… and holding $800 of pixels. 🥶
Thirty stacks of in-game currency sat in my bag.
It was all my ectos, years of farming and trading.
One trusted trader sent the PayPal—$800—after giving him the goods.
Trade done, no scam, life changed.
That single click showed me one thing: video games can teach real business.
(I later learned that same guy resold my gold for double—good lesson!)
Fast-forward 15 years and RMT (Real-Money Trading) grew me a profitable business.
It paid for trips across Asia. And was even my “full-time job” for 3 years. (honestly, a dream job)
That trade was my wow moment. 😮
That’s when I started to really dig into that opportunity.
It was amazing: I was making money while having fun!
My next 💸 from games
Once I knew real money was possible, I dove in:
Farming, trading, and learning more about this industry.
(I won’t talk about botting here as it deserves its whole article.)
For my own use first, I hunted game keys. Friends asked me to buy for them;
soon I had a small shop that would become a profitable side-business.
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Techniques & methods I used cannot share publicly
Not long after, people were asking me how and wanted to buy some from me. That’s when I started my “CD key” business that lasted… 13 years? (time flies!)
I found one of my first thread on Epvp (2012).
Note: Title and content were changed several times over the years.
Until I made a more definitive thread in 2015 for CD keys (which lasted 9 years).
CDK life
What I love about this reselling side-business: it’s extremely safe. 👌
It is of course completely legal, and it is also allowed by game studios. Meaning you don’t break games’ ToS and risk your account doing it. ✅
Everyone was happy: players saved money, I earned a margin, and my rep grew.
The main issue is how to find good deals?
Back then sales were rare, so I got creative. I had to dig the internet for good deals and best methods.
Sourcing CD keys
Most of my findings were from:
1. Big retailers dumping stock
For example, Fnac (big National retailer) once cleared boxes for 0.44€ each—bought the lot. 😎
2. Marketplaces (Amazon, eBay, LeBonCoin…)
Anyone can sell on those platforms.
I have so many examples of good deals that I cannot list them all.
It sometimes happened that I get 20-30+ copies for 1-2€ each from small shops.
Sometimes it felt like working in a factory:
Open box, remove plastic seal, extract game card, scratch code, write it down, repeat.
3. Online key stores
Official resellers sometimes had great deals on specific games. For example for a long time Gameliebe had the Platinum Edition at a great price.
It is hard to keep count of how many games (or Collector’s Editions) I purchased over the years. Most likely around 100 Collector and 8,000 regular copies 🤪
Closing thought
That first $800 could have gone very wrong; instead it funded 15 years of adventures.
How my life could have been if that trade didn’t go as planned?
(maybe my life goal would be to fight RMT? 😂)
Next up: sharing every trick I’ve polished since.
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— Boris (alias Bobu)
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