{"id":800,"date":"2008-09-09T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:23:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T12:23:34","slug":"5-reasons-not-to-create-a-flash-arcade-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/misc\/5-reasons-not-to-create-a-flash-arcade-site\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons NOT to Create a Flash Arcade Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA few online flash arcade sites have become very popular around the web. There is no wonder why hundreds of webmasters have decided to create a portal of their own in hopes of earning a modest sum of revenue. Almost all of them fail. Here are the reasons why you shouldn’t be one of these people.<\/p>\n

1. Huge Competition<\/h3>\n

As I stated before, there are hundreds, if not thousands of online flash arcades out there. If you are the sole administrator of your arcade, it will be hard to beat them. You won’t be able to offer content that everybody else doesn’t have.<\/p>\n

2. Returning Visitors are Rare<\/h3>\n

If your arcade is run by an arcade script that you bought, visitors are not likely to return to your arcade. They most likely only came across it through a Google search for a game. They probably needed to get past a firewall on their network and your site happened to be unknown enough that it wasn’t part of the database of arcade sites. Trust me, those are the only visitors you can expect.<\/p>\n

3. A LOT of Storage and Bandwidth is Needed<\/h3>\n

Most websites, like this one, usually take up under 100 megabytes of space, and usually under 2 gigabytes of bandwidth. If your creating an arcade site with thousands of games, the space needed to hold of those games can really add up. Some games take up more than 10 megabytes of disc space. You could be using quite a few gigabytes of storage space. If your site gets even the minimum amount of traffic, bandwidth usage could get pretty high.<\/p>\n

4. Ad Earnings are Minimal<\/h3>\n

Even with a reasonable amount of traffic to your site, your arcade wouldn’t be earning as much as a blog with the same amount of traffic. Why? Because most visitors to your arcade are numb to all ads. Pay-per-click ads wouldn’t work at all with this kind of traffic. CPM ads are probably the only option, but you would never earn too much from them anyway.<\/p>\n

5. It Takes a Lot of Time and Money<\/h3>\n

Yes, it’s true. Administrating an online flash game arcade can be time consuming. You might be thinking, “Well everything good in life takes time and money to make. Rome wasn’t built in a day, you know!”. First of all, Rome turned out to be a great success (until it fell). Your arcade site most likely will not. Secondly, the time you spend on your arcade won’t be the kind of time you’d spent administrating a blog. No, you would be doing some very tedious tasks, like adding games, getting rid of spam, editing page layout, and so on. Trust me, that truly is everything you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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