I wish to attend your seminar.

Maybe my 2k estimate is a little high and is more like the upper realistic limit in a week on the PL. I average around 1k/week right now (due to multiple losses which set me back), but I have gotten up to 2k in a week for stretches of time and I know I've broken 3k. Most people don't break 200/week because they can't afford enough to bet big in the PL.

If I completely update 57 games in a week, I make 2k. There are 1000's of games that need to be updated, and sometimes it is incredibly easy as I'm just duplicating information across 7 systems. I've managed to make over 4k in a single week from the game database, but I don't do that often as I tend take care of everything instead of focusing on the big money makers. For example, I take care of release dates for the US, and that takes away hours but only pays $0.75 per correction. On a typical week I make 1k, but like I said, I could easily make more if I wanted to, but I get pulled away by other responsibilities on this website and real life.

Just check out this link it'll give you some tips for updating the GDB: http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=25881

And just give it a try you might like it and get addicted, if you screw up we'll go easy on you since your a noob at this :)

It's not complicated at all, for getting good game info I'd advise going to www.gamefaqs.com

According to my calculations it'll be September - November of this year when 90-95% of all games that are now (plus the ones that will be added until that point) in the database are fully updated. The missing 5-10% will be mostly games which release dates & boxarts will still not be announced/published until then.
The vg$ amount that could be earned with that specific updating (excluding summaries) should be roughly between vg$ 80,000-120,000.

Note: All of the above are just estimations based on the work I did in the last seven months.

@Magera, you could also upload an avatar pic to earn 50.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+1 !!

I haven't read the entire thread so don't know whether someone else asked this, but when I tried to help out, it went like this:

post game that isn't in the database.... wait half a day.... some random line gets added to your profile... randomly click to see which game hides behind the link... then go get the pictures, add them... Wait another half a day....get some $$$

I don't know if that has changed, but it was NOT quick at all and NOT easy.

I can't say that I've seen a database job sitting in the queue for more than an hour, and they are typically done much faster than that. Unless you are updating in the middle of the night when all the db admins are sleeping.

EDIT: I just checked, and you last submitted around september 08, and back then we were overworked. Now things go much faster.

yea, since I know a few things, you are way underestimating the amount of work that can be done in the game database. Besides adding new consoles and games (as they are announced), there are new features in the works that will be adding to how much VG$ can be earned.

@ nordlead: good to hear ^^