These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

Player Features and Ideas Discussion

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
 

"Buddy Program" is useless?
Author
Previous Topic Next Topic
Eva Maque
3200
3200.
#1 - 2015-09-11 00:45:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Eva Maque
Hello my friends.
Here is a little story about me.
I am one of that guys who make videos. I like eve and like to make interesting video content.
evetvru is my channel on youtube.
I make video broadcasts of live pvp sessions. Tutorials for new pilots and so on. I have 2k+ subscribers
I should notice that making video is taking time fun. Buddy program was realy usefull stuff for me. People watched my videos liked this game and used link below my videos to create a nice 21day trial subscription wich they couldnt create on official website and try EVE Online.
It was a great feature for me aswell cos i could spend more time on making videos instead carebearing on ships fits and sometime plex for subscribtion.

Here is a little statistics:
since 27 Jan 2015, when i started my youtube channel till 19 Jul 2015 i had
Open Invites accepted: 684
Open Invites upgrade trial success: 75

After trial period changes i felt like much less people use my buddy link.
I don't know what to suggest, but i think that there should be some difference between buddy link and official trial link yet, because people like me will have more stamina boost for creating more content.
Maybe somebody will suggest something.
Thanks for your attention.
FireFrenzy
Cynosural Samurai
#2 - 2015-09-11 07:32:57 UTC
What did they change? the last thing i remember was 30 days of play time and alot of the limitations removed...
Eva Maque
3200
3200.
#3 - 2015-09-11 22:00:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Eva Maque
FireFrenzy wrote:
What did they change? the last thing i remember was 30 days of play time and alot of the limitations removed...


Right. That's what i'm talking about. It was 14 day trial on official website and 21day via buddy program. now both ways give trial account for 30 days.
idn maybe make more days via buddy program. or giving a useless ship or implant or i dont know what.)
i just want ccp to make new pilots more motivated to use open invitation via buddy program.
FireFrenzy
Cynosural Samurai
#4 - 2015-09-12 00:45:04 UTC
the main reason now is the link, which is really convenient for people...

but you're right there is no Mechanical advantage to the newbro side...
Eva Maque
3200
3200.
#5 - 2015-09-21 07:50:41 UTC
Sadly only 2 of us interested in this topic..
Nyalnara
Marauder Initiative
#6 - 2015-09-21 12:21:26 UTC
Just promise to give them half the value of the plex, and they'll use the link. At the moment, you propose them nothing, and they have no advantage using said link.

French half-noob.

Non, je ne suis pas gentil.
Mr Mieyli
Doomheim
#7 - 2015-09-22 10:27:37 UTC
Doesn't sound like a useful friend referral system anymore does it? Why would anyone bother clicking the link if you can get the same from CCPs own website.

Friend referrals should give more trial time available than the standard trial account.

This post brought to you by CCP's alpha forum alt initiative. Playing the eve forums has never come cheaper.
Dror
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2015-09-22 10:32:46 UTC
Neat idea.

"SP is helpful for the game?" Here's all of the research on motivation -- it says the opposite! What purpose does it serve, then? Starter corps are non-competitive. Sov is unchallenged. "Fix sov!" you say? Remove SP.
Seliah
Red Cloud Vigil
#9 - 2015-09-22 11:38:13 UTC
Eva Maque wrote:
Sadly only 2 of us interested in this topic..


It's more likely that most people in here don't know a thing about the specifics of the new player programs.

I think what you're doing is super cool - making videos of the game and getting people to try EVE. You bring new players to the game and get rewarded for it.

I didn't know the buddy invite program rules had changed, but I agree it should definitely come with a bonus (game time, ships, whatever) for the invited person and the inviter aswell. It would encourage people to do stuff like you do.