Is there something in place to stop unscrupulous people from creating hundreds of dummy accounts to farm PED?
Don't like it, don't do it - it's that simple.
What a bizarre thing to be so upset about. Your highly biased pole and posts make it seem like you've got a big chip on your shoulder. We need more marketing across the board and this is just one angle.
Whatever.
Miles
A person promoting a bad product to his friends because he earns money has a low character and its his own fault if friends dont like him afterwards anymore. A person promoting a good product to friends and earning something along the lines for helping putting the word out - i see nothing wrong in that.
Is there something in place to stop unscrupulous people from creating hundreds of dummy accounts to farm PED?
the point is that a high quality satisfying product does not need to resort to this, it is already being promoted for free as you said in your previous attempt at a comparison, by your logic entropia would of grown exponentially since its inception and would not need to pay people to do this. Marketing starts with your product. You only have to look at the types of businesses that have to resort to these measure to gain clients, if im not mistaken affiliate marketing is heavily used in the online casino and pornography business. I dont see ferrari doing this.
I still think they should reward depositors......
Absolutely, join hands and then play the anthemI still think they should reward depositors......
Okay, so I figured hey, free ped, so let's at least try a little. And all I get is 'This offer is not available in your geographic area'. In other words, people are being discriminated with these offers.
Its a choice...there is nothing to complain about....
...will download malware onto the computer...get a lot of spam emails...make up a fake identity so if an affiliate does sell your info it is all bogus.
Hold on,
Here's couple of youtube video from Sometrics:
A so-so One
Google I|O: Sometrics
and an ok which makes things a little bit more clear:
From what I understand, what they do is they mine Survey takers for some anonymous data, without getting any names, just the information that may help Mindark make better decisions about the contingent of the playerbases, their preferences, convictions etc. Then, they use this data to specifically target other people on the web based on these metrics using google ads or other means.
Its actually pretty neat. So, I'd even encourage everyone to take these surveys, and not just do it for fun or PED, but to actually provide some decent metrics, so the game can start expending once again.
There's only one problem that I see with this, and its that some people may decide to mine this system and will provide bullshit information just to get the PED without realizing that this will skew the data and all in all render the metrics useless.
So, if its something MA is paying for it is probably not such a great idea; if it's something which is free for MA it probably wont make much difference.
Unless, they weight all responses to successful ones...
So, its all good, keep filling em out.
Me and my Friends are very much disgusted by this move as this is going to bring low quality players to Entropia who are just going to reseller items and inflate and DE-stabalise the economy of Entropia.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but resellers in the game is a symptom of a healthy economy, as they are able to make a consistent living off of a rather reliable item trade.
That we have very few resellers in the game when compared to 2010 tells you that the economy is in fact destabilized right now. This is further evidenced by a massive price drop over the last 18 months in both property and in avatar related items.
Be disgusted all you want, but please be disgusted for the right reasons. Those reasons being something like "I think this will bring in poor people, and I dont like poor people" or "I think Entropia should only have one way to pay for it. I dont like alternatives."
Cheers.