Online games of skill? Win prizes online based upon ability rather than chance? Win money without gambling? $14,000,000 USD being spent on this per day? You want in on it? You want to get a cut? Hmmm… doesn’t sound like your ordinary pyramid scheme, or trapezoid scheme for that matter. uVme is here.
So my tiny brains tells me that they build the games. People pay to play these games against others. The winner, based upon their skill, gets to win cash. And if they find the games via your website you get some money too. It’s like Google AdWords for the online skill games industry.
I’m almost certain that their exit strategy is to be bought. They’re almost dangling the prospect of Google entering another online marketplace infront of Fortress Mountain View.
I think the concept is sound. For long time as a kid playing arcade games I thought “I should win some real money for doing what I just did on that game”. I used to be able to complete SideArms on one 10p, I finished Double Dragon without being hit once, I even finished the first stage of Turbo Outrun with the steering wheel broken. Such feats shouldn’t go unrewarded. Can you imagine playing Xbox Live Arcade for real money, or even for Live points rather than just for the kudos of having a good gamer score? Hmmm… maybe not.