Referral program

MMOsForLife

While the person providing the referral code receives an incentive, could the person using it also receive an incentive of some kind? I feel it doesn't make much sense to say, "Please use this code." "I'll give a reward." But the person that would use it gains nothing?

Karthos

I ran into this early on, years ago, when trying to get my friends to use my referral code. There wasn't anything in it for them. No 10% discount on their first purchase, no free month of subscription, nothing really other than them wanting me to make money off of them.

So most of them didn't. They just made their own account, and then tried to refer other people, with similar results.

It's lead me to conclude the referral system is mostly for content creators. They reach the widest audience and their viewers would likely be willing to use a referral code that benefits the content creator, even if it doesn't benefit themselves.

I've never been a real fan of the referral system for several reasons, and the fact that AOC's referral system isn't like pretty much every referral program in gaming now, and doesn't offer an incentive for the user. What has resulted is everyone and their mom trying to force their referral code on everyone else. Always struck me as proof how limited their scope/idea was on it, and thus how it probably should have been more thought out.

That being said, I don't have access to the actual numbers on how many referrals have been used. It could have been a screaming success and my "friends" just don't like me.