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11/23/2015 10:54:45 PM
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Refer-a-friend unfair to veterans
Bungie Why are you punishing Veteran players with the refer a friend program. My friends brought me in a year ago and I have brought people in since. Now you come out with this and give Exclusive Weapons as rewards for this. Me and all of my friends are out of people to refer because we were loyal to you. All our loyalty has netted is a "shadder emblem, sparrow and more" even though the more part never came. But now for those who weren't in it from the start and still have people to bring in are getting EXCLUSIVE WEAPONS that we cannot not get is an insult to all of our hard work. You say that feedback is important but stuff like this just goes to show that you really only care about the sales and not your current players. I love this game but things like this are really frustrating. Please just make it right and give those of us who are out of people to bring in to this universe a way to earn these weapons. I never minded exclusive shadders, sparrows and emblems. They don't affect game play, but weapons do. Please make it right
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4 RepliesGuess I will be copy/pasting this a lot as the forums are blowing up about this. I am a Day 1 player for the record as well.... Anyone who has paid attention to my posts over my time on this forum knows I am far from being a Bungie fan boy. That said, I will call things as I see it. In this case, as I mentioned in another thread, I have personally been involved with and managed referral programs and I work at a video game company. So I have actual real world knowledge on this stuff from behind the curtain. That link they provide is the validation process. On the back end it provides Bungie an ID to prove that someone was referred by someone else. This will help to get any issues resolved if rewards are not issued, etc. That said, as a business, they have to have some type of control in place to make sure the program is not abused. This link (validation process) is that gate to make sure they don't get burned and are getting actual referrals. Otherwise EVERYONE and their mother would claim they added someone. So that is part of this that people aren't understanding. The other part people are complaining about is that they referred X people in the past and should get credit for it. 2 things on that: 1) - I know this sucks, but the cold reality is, the program didn't exist when you referred someone therefore you don't get to retroactively get rewarded. This is not unethical nor illegal. This should be a common sense issue, you made your referral, the program didn't exist then./end. 2) - Let's say Bungie wanted to reward you for referring someone before the program even existed, how would they know who you referred? There was no program, so there was no validation process (no link to have your friend sign up through) so how would you prove you referred someone? Believe me, I referred people too and would love to get this stuff, but reality is, I have no justification to get pissed off about it based on the above. Luckily I do have a friend who is getting Destiny for the first time next week so I will be referring her.
