Posted by Tweaks to Referral System

Blue [Full BO dawn] (#73123)

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Posted on
2016-11-17 12:45:53
New members bring in new revenue and fresh blood to the game. Referring users is a great idea, and adding incentives for both parties works out well!

But the current system is a bit wonky and hard to use. I've been advertising amongst various pet Sims the past couple of days, and I've referred a grand total of 5 users. Except... I've only been credited for 2, because you can only use a code once a day. You may only generate one code once a day.

This makes advertising quite a large pain. Only one person a day can join lioden under you, and when you only get referral points after they've rolled over 10 days, which isn't a guarantee...

The system makes me want to stop committing effort into inviting new users and thus new ad revenue and new money into the game. This is a lose-lose situation. Why expend the effort when nothing is really happening on my end?

The goals are fantastic with the nice items, but they're a little TOO difficult to achieve right now.

My suggestions:
Be able to generate more than one code a day.
Allow multiple users to join under one code a day.
Add 1 referral point to the account per user referred, 1 more regularly as per usual. (10 rollovers).

Now, these don't have to all be implemented at once, but with the current system, it's very frustrating and makes one wonder if it's worth the effort.



This suggestion has 134 supports and 5 NO supports.



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Jack | G2 Jellyfish
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2016-11-17 13:02:16
This is exactly why I don't bother to refer people tbh! (Though I did technically refer KittyMachina, but I forgot to give her a referal code oops x'D) I completely agree, if the system was changed I'd actually do it, it'd be more worth it



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Blue [Full BO dawn] (#73123)

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2016-11-17 13:07:12
I thought that you could use a referral code more than once per day. In games where I can have signatures I've been updating my code once per day to get users in, and I've learned that when someone uses the code once, that's it.

It's really not worth it as is now. Especially when you don't even get referral points until have they've had their 10th roll-over and can only have 1 join per day... In 30 days, if 30 people join, that's not 30 rp. :/ Either the day buff system needs to go or the rollover waiting period needs to go, imo.



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Jack | G2 Jellyfish
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Posted on
2016-11-17 13:28:40
@Bluie Completely agree



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Lurgle (#49415)

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2016-11-19 00:04:10
I usually NEVER refer on any game, no matter how easy it is, but I'd definitely refer Lioden, it's on my top 3! However, when I first heard of referrals coming out, I checked out the new page as usual, and everything.. Just, jesus, that's impossible! And I completely agree with everything said in this post, so you've got a clicky from me~



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Bezthiel 🍉 (#81210)

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2016-11-20 04:43:41
Users making an account and never coming back is a huge problem, and I don't think even a single person I've invited here before the referral system ever came back for a third and fourth rollover. Because of that, I've never even bothered to generate a code once I realized they had to come back for 10! whole rollovers. But... just because those people don't continue to use the site doesn't mean they didn't tell a bunch of people about it themselves, so I should earn at least 1 token point for introducing them to the idea of Lioden at all.

There's basically no way right now to get enough points to get any of those neat referral rewards, so it's not an incentive at all to use the referral system.



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Blue [Full BO dawn] (#73123)

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2016-11-20 05:06:18
@Bezthiel

You're right in saying that. I had someone referred and they said they hated it within the first 30 seconds and said they weren't coming back. Which is fine, but... You just wasted my code for the entire day. It would be nice to either still get a RP point for it or, you know, get another code for someone who wants to actually play.



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Asazi ✨ (#341)

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Posted on
2016-11-23 00:46:13
This would be a wonderful change.

I'm a bit of a casual super referrer, if that even makes sense to anyone else. Over the years I've gotten around 2,000 to 3,000 referrals to various pet sites. I don't devote anywhere near as much time to it now but I still rake in an okay bit of referrals. To someone like me, systems like Lioden's aren't worth much, if any, effort at all. If I was still big into referring I wouldn't even bother mentioning Lioden because of the 1 use codes. It just doesn't make any sense. Why waste time micro-managing something like that on top of all the effort that goes into getting lots of people excited to join? There are so many easier, and all around fairer, systems out there. I'd rather put my time into advertising another pet site with a system that doesn't punish the person trying to get referrals.

Even if the 10 day rollover requirement isn't changed (which I really think it should be somehow; either reduced or 10 days just gives you an extra point), the generated codes should be removed completely from the game. This isn't like Toyhouse where users need an invite code; anyone can just "walk up" and join at random. Every account should have ONE permanent code, just like every other pet site I can think of does, that will always work and count as a referral for that user. Even if generated codes worked for 5 or 10 or 20 people, it wouldn't be worth the potential loss and the constant micromanaging.



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Blue [Full BO dawn] (#73123)

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Posted on
2016-11-26 06:38:41
Having 0 of the refer only apps in the game even though it's been quite some time, enough for them to be in game, should say something about the current stance of the system.



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Sickn3ssX [Clean
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2017-02-04 11:33:11
And they only last a week or what ever. I have sites that I put the referral link into the bio, but then it expires. And I don't ever update those bios. So maybe make them last longer to?



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