How much could I sell my browser based game for?

[ST-Mike]

Admins have ignored my deletion request - if you're not going to delete my account then don't have the option there please.

[Harkins]

That's funny, I just saw your game mentioned in the auction listing for Gangs of America on Flippa (a nice marketplace for buying and selling sites):

First, I just want to say that I know the price is high for a game making no money. With that said, I coded the game from scratch. I modeled it off of a game I used to play that I thought was really good; gangsternation.net. Originally, that game's owner was upset becasue I wrote such a nice game so similar to his, but we made amends and he realized it was in fact a different and unique game.

12 month's net is sorta the baseline. Modified if traffic is going up or down, depends a lot on how much time you have to put into it on an ongoing basis, if any special skills or resources are needed.

[KoI]

I'd be surprised if you got more than 4 months net honestly. BBGs tend to be trendy, and tend to have poor retention rates among the average user. A lot of the ones you see for sale were people's project for learning php, and as a result they are poorly coded. Your revenue may be consistent for a few years, but consistent is not the same as growth... and since gangster games have been the hot trend over the last year or two, I personally view 'consistent' in a growing segment as being a negative.

If you were selling clients who subscribed to a service like webhosting or something else which had barriers to leaving and/or incentives to stay, I think 6-12 months net would be realistic and probably even conservative. Hope I'm wrong for your sake, but I've valued properties in the past and this was the general line of thinking.

[JGadrow]

The obvious question is, why are you looking to sell? It sounds like you're wanting a residual income to use in funding a new endeavor. Why not just take the income from this game and use it towards that end?

At the end of the day, someone with three games online making a profit is doing better off than a person with one game online and doing the same. If you have a profitable product, what's the value to you in selling it? Is it really such a maintenance headache that you're unable to work on a concurrent project? Maybe you need to hire a game administrator to deal with player administration to free up your time. You could do this on a part-time basis at first to see if it helps you out.

If not, at least you have it every attempt to keep it before getting rid of it.

[ST-Mike]

Admins have ignored my deletion request - if you're not going to delete my account then don't have the option there please.

[KoI]

Well, no harm in listing it for whatever you want to see if anyone bites. I think the 1 year + is extremely optimistic though considering this is a personally managed game.  For any company that doesn't see an immediate opportunity to add value, they're essentially not making money on the project for a year, while they're losing money supporting it.