I look forward to seeing what they bring out with it next... I hope they make the original RAF rewards available again (although I suppose they'd make good Trading Post rewards too) :)
Yes, all I want is the fire horse!I admit, I am a whale and will be reactivating my second account just to get whatever new stuff they put out. *shrugs*
but i have no friends.. and i dont want to addict people :(
I must be too cynical because this referal thing looks like a ponzi scheme to me xD. You recruit people to gain rewards for each month they subscribe... i mean...well...i see bad everywhere i guess :Dps: i don't care they do it, it's Blizzard after all i'm not gonna be outrage by this, i just find it funny :p
OMG! its looks like after 12 months your friend has subbed you get a WoW gold token every three months? Wish I had a few friends that wanted to play WoW lol.
Hope we get plenty of time to get the current rewards, my last RAF friend quit and left me at 11/12
The problem is that you can't get friends to play WoW. Either there are enough games out there to keep them busy, or they're too busy to play at all, or they already have a subscription. The whole system is generally outdated and you should think differently about getting new people to play.
RaF is basically a convuluted store at this point, its very very unlikely you're going to be bringing anyone new into this game at this point.Also if the images are still showing the camel and explorer's outfit, I guess that dashes hopes they will be put onto the Trading Post or something
A great system, I really like it. Although it doesn't go the way some people think it does, since it doesn't show you the full terms on the rewards screen.Most importantly, you should note that each referred friend is only linked to you for a maximum of 12 months in the first place. This is a calendar year, not game time. Beyond that first year you get no bonus play time from them staying subbed, can no longer summon each other, nor get the buddy rewards for questing together. You would only get into that final continuous bonus game time reward if you have referred multiple people.Secondly, if one of your referred friends sends out their own codes and starts earning rewards, the free game time they use does not count toward their own sub. Unless they bulk paid for their year sub in advance, you may not get all of the 4 months of free game time from them, and you would receive no further rewards beyond that first calendar year.e.g. If your referred buddy subscribed for their first month and in turn sends out 3 referrals, then get to play for a year free themselves, you'd actually get no rewards yourself beyond the very first month that they paid for.Referring multiple people also ranks your rewards up quicker. If you successfully refer 6 people, you'd have all of the mount/transmog rewards after 2 months; you would have amassed 4 months of free game time, using 2 months of it in the process and having 2 months to spare. If all 6 stay subbed beyond that, you'd continue to amass 2 years of free play time over the span of that year (using up a year of it in the process of course). You would get no rewards from them beyond that.
The RAF system is basically people subbing another account, dont know why blizzard doesnt cut the pretense and just add these items to the store directly.
RAF in a nutshell "a convoluted way to milk people who can afford 2 subs"There is no way a person you would recruit would stick around for 12 months unless you basically pay the sub for them.
This system is not designed to incentivize people to get their friends to start playing WoW. It's designed to milk whales. They know they can't get more players, but they can get more accounts out of the players they already have. This system is specifically designed to do just that. More players are expensive to maintain, more accounts are much less so. It's why they kick back a month of game time every three months, because they know the vast majority of those "friends" aren't actual people. They figured out that after a year, most whales will forget about that second account and will just continue paying for it, especially if they think they're getting something out of it.