Request: Affiliate Program / Referral system

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Re: Request: Affiliate Program / Referral system

Postby JohnCarver » Fri Jun 27, 2014 6:40 pm

We do, in fact, like the idea of players getting vanity rewards for recruiting other players who in turn invest in the store. The reward would be limited to vanity only for the very obvious points mentioned here already, which is players referring their own accounts to make their own purchases for the item anyway.

But if you were truly playing this for free, but bringing in friends who are doing things on the store, it would be nice for that person to have a vanity item to show for it.
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Re: Request: Affiliate Program / Referral system

Postby Feone » Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:26 pm

JohnCarver wrote:We do, in fact, like the idea of players getting vanity rewards for recruiting other players who in turn invest in the store. The reward would be limited to vanity only for the very obvious points mentioned here already, which is players referring their own accounts to make their own purchases for the item anyway.

But if you were truly playing this for free, but bringing in friends who are doing things on the store, it would be nice for that person to have a vanity item to show for it.


You may also want to ask yourself if it's a bad thing when people invite themselves.

If any worthwhile reward doesn't come in until the referred player(s) start using the cashshop then it's just another incentive for players to spend a bit of money on the game. In a way that doesn't affect gameplay presumably, nor breaks anything balance related. This is in the worst case, players trying to abuse it. In the best case players would just get a few goodies for spreading the game.
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Re: Request: Affiliate Program / Referral system

Postby daopa » Mon May 25, 2015 10:14 pm

Would like to know the status of the affiliate program, someone has mention there is a beta affiliate program running?


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Re: Request: Affiliate Program / Referral system

Postby Dallane » Mon May 25, 2015 10:36 pm

daopa wrote:Would like to know the status of the affiliate program, someone has mention there is a beta affiliate program running?


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Should prolly msg john
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Re: Request: Affiliate Program / Referral system

Postby Scilly_guy » Mon May 25, 2015 10:52 pm

Or he could necro an old thread which I am not sure why it got such abuse. We currently have quarterly rewards for people who spend $40 in the cash shop and I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to have a quarterly reward for the top 5 referrers. If you refer someone who makes a cash shop purchase (from a new account, for more than $10) then you get a point, the top 5 points get an extra special version of that quarters cape, add a gold trim or something slightly different that the artists can do quickly and simply.

If people want to abuse this by inviting themselves then they have to spend more money on multiple accounts and instead of getting lots of normal reward capes they get 1 cape that is only slightly different.
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Re: Request: Affiliate Program / Referral system

Postby Dallane » Mon May 25, 2015 11:51 pm

Scilly_guy wrote:Or he could necro an old thread which I am not sure why it got such abuse. We currently have quarterly rewards for people who spend $40 in the cash shop and I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to have a quarterly reward for the top 5 referrers. If you refer someone who makes a cash shop purchase (from a new account, for more than $10) then you get a point, the top 5 points get an extra special version of that quarters cape, add a gold trim or something slightly different that the artists can do quickly and simply.

If people want to abuse this by inviting themselves then they have to spend more money on multiple accounts and instead of getting lots of normal reward capes they get 1 cape that is only slightly different.


I see that you can't read. He is talking about streamers. Stop being a idiot.
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Re: Request: Affiliate Program / Referral system

Postby loleznub » Tue May 26, 2015 12:36 am

Dallane wrote:
Dallane wrote:No thx


Considering how much I spend on the game, It'd be literally buy 3 things, get 1 FREE!!!!

Players should come play because they want to. And then if they like the game enough to want to support it they will do so. There's no need to add "incentives" to purchasing things becasue the inviter was probably 'using' them as slave labor (or abusing it as coupons) when they started which is a reward of it own :twisted:
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Re: Request: Affiliate Program / Referral system

Postby Scilly_guy » Tue May 26, 2015 8:36 pm

Dallane wrote:His usual kind of comment

I've just reread this and I didn't notice anyone talking about streamers, but maybe that is because I'm not very good at reading between the lines.

BTW, I'm looking forward to your 10,000th post, I bet its a good one :roll:
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Re: Request: Affiliate Program / Referral system

Postby Dallane » Tue May 26, 2015 8:44 pm

Scilly_guy wrote:
Dallane wrote:His usual kind of comment

I've just reread this and I didn't notice anyone talking about streamers, but maybe that is because I'm not very good at reading between the lines.

BTW, I'm looking forward to your 10,000th post, I bet its a good one :roll:


Oh it will. I'll be giving back to the community in a very big way.
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