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11/23/2015 9:35:57 PM
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Refer a friend is such bull.
If they were going to do this why not add it when the game came out. I looked at the rewards for it, and it pisses me off. I've invited lots of my friends to play destiny. I was like hey you got to get destiny. I've carried so many of my friends that I told to get the game through thick, and thin. This is just ultra crap. I want those swords, I want that sparrow, shaders, and emblem. I feel betrayed by bungie once again. I've recommended this game to lots of people, and lots of them end up getting it, and I helped them through all of it. Now I'm not saying all of them started in taken king, but a couple of them did. This is ridiculous. Now it has been well over the 7 days to refer them. I don't get anything.
I bet some of you feel the same way, if you do give this a bump.
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Guess 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.
