Just for fun…
I’ve noticed that I get some points that I can redeem with. And yet I’m only a really small and chill creator. I wonder how much money every day those really famous people with hundreds of models get?
(Yay I can redeem some stuff now)
Yes.
(Though the quantity does not necessarily mean you get more money if no one downloads them.)
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Na, what I mean is those people with hundreds of downloads and prints every day…
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Man if we only knew, it would probably give a bunch of us more inspiration to design rather than download.
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Or cause anger and resentment that would cloud the judgement of a few on here who might be jealous or angry their models have not seen the same popularity.
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Absolutely. I couldn’t agree more.
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I heard reward-rich designers have big 3D house models. Maybe ask them to show their house models?
Malc, at first posting this I was always thinking about you…
Maybe you could tell me.
I understand why people wouldn’t want to disclose this since people can be jealous. But creating good models is hard work and a decent hourly rate for design work seems unattainable. So keep in mind that every creator with high rewards most likely puts in even more work. But all information is openly available, so I made it easier to calculate.
Very roughly concerning gift cards:
Every boost is 1USD
Every 40 downloads is 1USD
Every 20 makes is 1USD
If you have exclusive models, you can cash this amount.
If you use exclusive to get gift cards you get 25% extra.
The reward system also keeps changing so again, rough estimation and I could have made an error.
I must say, I have only one exclusive model which does quite well and I can buy something nice at the end of the year. But not more than that. Popularity goes down as well and you have to keep designing to keep earning.
It’s not about quantity but quality.
BTW it’s quite simple to know how much “money” anyone does in MW, just look at activity summary and do some math, you will have an approximate amount of points earned.
Boosts: 1500 x 12 (we count everything as not-exclusive points)
Points: 20900 downloads + (15000 x 2 prints)
Total: 68900 Points
Now divide points earned by points needed to get a gift card (524 for EU = 40€)
Earnings: 68900 / 524 * 40€ = ca 5260€
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Enough to make running the machine cost nothing. I don’t design anything to get downloads, I make what I need or want and share. If it happens it happens.
So far it’s been worthwhile sharing.
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That’s not right.
It’s very close, works out to within 250 points for me.
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Not sure why they call it progressive, you get less points per download the more downloads you get.
My calculation is based on the highest teir and therefore undershoots the actual points slightly. You also get a makersupply reward if you hit thousands of downloads, most models don’t
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I’m relatively new to the platform and started modeling back in August in my spare time. I was very fortunate and had a couple of my models hit the trending list for a while. I’ve been saving up my points for four months and just redeemed them during the Black Friday sale and was able to get 4 printers and some filament.
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Yes, the ‘worth’ of every download drops considerably past the 500 mark:
<= 50 downloads: 1.5 points per download
<= 500 downloads: 0.48 points per download
<= 1000 downloads: 0.4 points per download
over 1000 downloads: 0.3 points per download
(but boosts are consistent and make up for the dropoff imo)
It’s an approximation, as I mentioned, but it works.
Here’s how it breaks down: based on my rewards, the total from the math is 68,900, while my actual total is 72,000.
The math checks out since everything is calculated through downloads, prints, and boosts. You can ignore the progressive rewards — they’ve already been accounted for.
I can say you have accumulated about 16k points.
13,8K. The progressive “discount” matters.
Sure, but as you can see, the simple math works fine for an approximation.