123813-referral-system

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Why not add a referral system now that you introduced a 10 day trial recently? Each referral could award you 1 Boombox. 
It awards players for advertising Wildstar and Boomboxes aren't such a huge reward that it would feel intrusive and mandatory for people to refer other players to Wildstar. 
 
I don't see why not and it would work really well with the new 10 day trial as opposed to the awkward 3 invites per account thing. 	
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one moment please, creating lots of gmail accounts and "referring" myself for an endless supply of boomboxes
 
 
wait... boomboxes are rubbish, on second thoughts no thanks, Carbine can keep them :P	
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I believe Boom boxes are secret Chua weapon for mass hope annihilation.
 
The name alone should be very telling. I mean BOOMbox, clearly a chua came up with it.	
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one moment please, creating lots of gmail accounts and "referring" myself for an endless supply of boomboxes
 
 
wait... boomboxes are rubbish, on second thoughts no thanks, Carbine can keep them :P
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Perfect, so you agree with the sentiment that the boomboxes are so rubbish it's not worth the effort of making several accounts (which can easily be prevented but for the sake of hyperbole) then it's perfect. 
 
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			but what about not 1 boombox when they use the free trial, but 30 boomboxes if someone you referred buy the cdkey of the game, that would be something, and wont be exploitable (like USD40 for 30 boomboxes seems like a bad bussines)	
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No, it really can't be easily prevented. you missed the point of my post so I will spell it out. what you are suggesting is highly susceptible to exploitation and therefore just a really bad idea
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Why not add a referral system now that you introduced a 10 day trial recently? Each referral which subsequently buys the game and subscribes for one month could award you 20 Boomboxes. 
It awards players for advertising Wildstar and Boomboxes aren't such a huge reward that it would feel intrusive and mandatory for people to refer other players to Wildstar. 
 
​If your referral remains subscribed for two months, your subscription and his subscription drop by two dollars a month.  This can "stack" up to three times, so that an account which has referred three other accounts, which all remain active, would mean the original count only needs to pay nine dollars an hour, and as long as they remain active (and unless they start stacking their own referral bonuses), the other accounts pay 13 dollars a month.
 
I don't see why not and it would work really well with the new 10 day trial as opposed to the awkward 3 invites per account thing. 
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From what I remember when I did referrals in other games you were "tagged" when the person you referred set up a trial account and recieved small benefits like you and them got an experience bonus and or a small gold bonus. You had to be grouped with that person though for the bonuses to be active. This was to encourage the referring person to act as a live tour guide instead of simply tossing the person into the game and leaving them to wander around.
 
I feel this is the most important stage because from what I have observed with new players coming to Wildstar is that they can get a bit overwhelmed and lost a bit more easier than other games and the ones that end to stay are those who are helped by more experienced players. 
 
If that person subscribed/bought the game then you'd get items, title, etc that are proposed which is where i think boomboxes wold be given along with perhaps maybe a title that might sound like something you'd give a protostar eemployee hehe. There cold be other things too as well, but I overall think referral program would be lovely in general.	
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