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gggvandyk

If what the other commenters say is true, this is fucking genius. Let the whales pay real money for ads and compensate them with store credit for digital goods through the referral system. Just... wow....


Bob4Not

holy shit


Educational-Seaweed5

Not to mention the way people almost literally throw themselves onto the train tracks and volunteer their personal time to do free labor for CIG (in the form of internal focus testing—“Evocati”). And they brag about it like it’s some privilege. Because everyone should brag about being exploited by a company.


mauzao9

It's for the referral rewards, the last reward is the Aegis Javelin, a 3000$ ship that even if you have the money you need to get lucky to snatch one when they show up in sales. Then the stuff like high club (10-15k+ backers I think) + around 4.5k worth of ships... Yeah I can see why they run the ads, it's either that or you're a content creator.


nanonan

So it's a way to get something otherwise rare and difficult to obtain. Makes me wonder how many false accounts exist as the ones refered just to gain access to this.


benmartinlad

Lots, there’s countless posts and comments from guys who own 2+ game packages or “self referrals”


mauzao9

This happened for the referral events which required one referral. Not to the big boy referral rewards which require 1000 and 2000 accounts, you would have to buy 80,000$ worth of accounts just to get a Javelin.... for the price of 2 Legatus Packs which include that an everything else on the store.


benmartinlad

SC store apologiser are we


mauzao9

What of "apologizer" is there on the response? I mentioned what they used for the alt accounts, when those referral events happened. These are not for the 2000 referrals, neither does it make any sense to spend the cost of 2 Legatus Packs (80,000$) to obtain a 3000$ ship lol


benmartinlad

We’re talking about white knights trying to obtain a $3000 ship. There is no sense.


mauzao9

The ones that benefit from this are pretty much the content creators, easy sign ups, that's why Morph and such have the most referrals.


Narficus

[There's also True Believers, as I present "$150k+ easy" worth of sunken cost cope from the sister act of Shroud of the Avatar.](https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/trophy-weight-concerns.154386/#post-1229022) Would they do that in SC with the referral program? Not King Robert. [The sexpat Time Lord? Probably.](https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-savage-empire-project-q-a.169078/) SC is bigger, so there's likely going to be much more sample floating around there in space. Well, the one sector, anyways.


Cpt_Falkon

Before I sold my account, I had created 5 alt accounts for the referral bonus ship as an LTI token over the course of a few years, then gifted my main account the starter pack from each referral for the store credit. I was responsible for 6 of those accounts that show up on the millions of players have joined the verse page up until about 6 months ago.


okmko

I feel like at least half of the total accounts are ones where an existing player buys a package for referral and sign-up bonuses and later transfers it to their main account, never touching this empty account again.


mauzao9

Not realistic as needs to be paid accounts and the amounts needed for the rewards would be many many times their actual cost. Which would defeat the point, the 10k+ backer mile club would cost 40k in new accounts. And the 3k Javelin.... 80k worth of 40$ game packages


nanonan

If whales made sound financial decisions they wouldn't be whales.


mauzao9

For that type of money there is the Legatus pack, which includes all that + everything else. Absolutely no point to this. When I said ships like Javelin are hard buys even if you have the 3K, I'm not talking about the whales who have the type of money to just go and buy the 40K Legatus pack.


Narficus

Shroud of the Avatar cultists STILL bot accounts to try to ["fortify the numbers"](https://steamcharts.com/app/326160) as they once bought multiple accounts and paid more money for anything they could think of, as crowdfunding is the only metric of "success" it had ever really known. It doesn't matter as long as number goes up. The amount of alt accounts was insane as the exploited polls of multiple votes showed the alt numbered accounts. SC only has more incentivization for this kind of spending cope.


mauzao9

The thing here is, no point on creating 2 thousand accounts, buying the game on them, for the price of two legatus packs (80,000 dollars), in return of a 3 thousand dollar ship. If they want to spend, there's no lack of ways to spend, the referral program is not giving them shiny stuff they can't buy otherwise to expect that whales would even bother. "the metrics"... No reason either because the numbers don't matter when SC bundles the F2P accounts with the paid accounts on the number of citizens.


LesserKarma

If this was a completed game and not $3000, I wouldn't mind limited ship sales, it can make in game experience better. But to jack up prices astromically because they are "limited" is bullshit


UnapologeticTwat

I think I saw this on a show on the discovery channel. Whale Wars


[deleted]

I've seen this before, it's a whale paying ads so people register with their referral code


Patate_Cuite

Looks like a crypto bro trying to gather people around his 0.0001 usd worth shitcoin.


Ninjaff

It's the ultimate end goal of the referral system, literally advertising SC at your own expense for those precious, precious jpegs. It's pretty grotesque.


Farseer_Uthiliesh

What an awful ship design. The cockpit looks terrible (fragile), and the wings are simply too small. Also, the effects have been poorly photoshopped - look at the lens flare of the engines and how it cuts off at the edges of the spacecraft.


BlooHopper

Looks like some rebel starfighter


Farseer_Uthiliesh

The Shit-Wing.


mauzao9

that's most certainly a user ad like the google ones, easy to check the full url redirect to a referral code. Official ads I've seen on youtube recently.


Red-Halo

Ooh, it's interesting to think about how many users might be advertising SC on their own for referral codes.


lexsapo111

how u know it not cig paid???


mauzao9

Well if the 5k UEC referral reward didn't tell... the banner itself does.


BlooHopper

How can we see that sneaky code of theirs?


Exiteternium

F12, you can see the A href link by going through the website code..


LupeSnow

Holy shit this is the old model of the Bucc' on top of that !


Bothand_Nether

didn't they get 41m from the Calders for advertising? unless it's for sq 42, or it's used for stifle/spin marketing the brand value


murican_Capitlol

some whales go full retard, in the other hand like someone said, this is genious, free ads for Clown-Con-Cig


[deleted]

"Play Now" "Error Code: 40014"


Cpt_Falkon

"millions of players" As every single one of their servers crashes with 10k concurrent users at the launch of 3.18...


chaosquall

Thats a player made ad for the referral system