If you’ve seen ads for Atlas Earth lately, you might be wondering what it is and how it works. After all, Atlas Earth advertises itself as an app that allows you to buy virtual real estate and make money.
This can be appealing to many who are interested in the metaverse. Especially if you want to buy virtual real estate. But what is Atlas Earth, and why are many people saying it’s a scam? We tested it and found out.
What Is Atlas Earth?
Atlas Earth is one of the only mobile games right now where you can purchase virtual real estate. Essentially, Atlas Earth is a virtual representation of the world that takes place in the metaverse. With Atlas Earth, you can buy plots of land 900 square feet at a time.
The more land you collect, the more you move up the rankings. You can become mayor, governor, and even president.
Atlas Earth moves around with you, so if you move around in real life, you can discover new plots of land and see if anybody around you owns their own plots.
Can You Make Money With Atlas Earth?
Atlas Earth promises to make you money by renting out your parcels in the game. Atlas Earth pays you per second. This may seem like a lot, but at such low pay, you would make under 10 cents per year on a typical plot. Atlas Earth also requires a balance of five dollars to cash out, meaning you'd need to hang on to that land for even longer (or buy more) before you could get any money back at all.
This means that the amount of money you make wouldn’t cover the cost of the land until you have it for about 50 years.
Even if you had a lot of land, you won’t make any profit unless the game explodes in popularity. At which point, you would be able to sell your land at a massive markup due to the rise in popularity. This may never happen though.
How Does Atlas Earth Make Money?
Atlas Earth makes money by selling you Atlas Bucks, which you use to purchase properties in the game. 100 Atlas Bucks costs around five dollars and buys you one parcel of land. The more Atlas Bucks you purchase, the cheaper they get.
You also get two free Atlas Bucks by watching an ad. Atlas Earth makes money from those ads and gives you a portion of the earnings. However, it would take watching 50 ads to get enough money for one parcel of land. Atlas Earth also limits you to one ad every 20 minutes.
It’s also possible that Atlas Earth is using the data generated from you to make a profit. After all, Atlas Earth requires your location settings to use the app to generate more of the map as you move around. This data could be sold to developers looking to expand the metaverse.
Is Atlas Earth a Scam?
If you are looking to make money, Atlas Earth probably isn’t worth it. And the advertisements pushed by Atlas Earth promising to make you money should be taken with a pinch of salt.
If you’re looking for a fun game to dip your toe into the metaverse, Atlas Earth could be for you. However, you can’t do much unless you’re actually looking to buy land. Because of this, Atlas Earth might not even generate enough popularity to become one of the major players in the metaverse. This means the land you buy won’t be worth it.
While the metaverse continues to grow, more iOS apps with better features will be available in the future.