hey /biz/ I have a question. Let's say you've developed

Launch the feature for everyone.

The cashback potential of your average player will be negligible, but you still get the growth of people promoting the game.

>>1656855
We will launch it for everyone, anyone will be able to apply.

When I say YouTubers I mean anyone with YouTube channel can apply, kind of missed that, sorry.

I'm really concerned about giant lash-back (THEY WANT TO MAKE MORE MONEY INSTEAD OF FIXING BUGS) from our younger audience.

Why have the youtube limitation?

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>>1656861
Huge majority of traffic comes from YouTube. I believe we do support other sources (ie bloggers). It really does work for anyone. I just call it "YouTubers system" as we get about 95% traffic from YouTubers, other 5% don't convert to money very well as older people know how to read & generally are good enough to get everything for free. Promising money where there aren't any is something we try to avoid. But we do indeed support all sorts of quality traffic.

>>1656853
>What would you suggest to other developers to consider before launching this system?
What do you mean 'other developers'? You mean for other publishers, or the other developers on the team of this specific game?

>How would you minimize the amount of angry players?
We'll you've already fucked up by launching this tomorrow. This is where you need to build a "dialogue" with the community. Actually, you're framing future press releases so they receive them positively. You trickle feed them the information so they get acclimatized to it, but also so you can let your arguments sink in that this is a good move for the community.

Another idea is the old "Take a mile, give back all but an inch"/New Coke approach. You make an announcement, oh, I dunno, you're gonna charge for the game. Players outraged naturally. Within 24 hours you come back "hey guys sorry about that. We heard your criticism, and we won't charge/do-unpopular-thing" and then kind of slip in under the radar this referral program.
But if done poorly it can really backfire big time.

im pissed off daily that youtubers make a living playing games while I make the same while getting no money

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>>1656884
I know all that.

You're overthinking it tho, and underestimating intelligence of average person.

We're not some kind of cheesy 2016 politically correct company, quite the opposite really. We don't go back with decisions & apologize for something that is good. Everything we do is in company+player interest, whether they know it or not. I didn't mention it yet but our game is free to play, everything that is premium can be obtain by free to play users. We don't even filter hip words like nigger. People who don't like our chat alone- generally go away within minutes.

Thanks for the input anyway. <3

>>1656941
Can you be more specific, what exactly do you have about YouTubers? I'm really curious about people like you.

Have you tried doing it yourself?

Is it: little effort + lots of fun + huge reward type of thing?

Would love to hear more insight from you.

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gamers are going to complain no matter fucking what so just do it

>>1657052
I'm aware of that. Takes some time to get used to. :)

It's still nice to minimize the amount of crying.

>>1656853
Sounds like a really good plan. People will complain but of course what you're gaining from the system far outweighs any complaints you might get as I'm sure you already know. No one is going to quit because of this and for the most part people who complain about updates like this aren't being that serious, people think it's funny to bitch about anything that's getting implemented and especially if it's not a beneficial update for them. As far as minimizing the anger you could remind your players that incentivizing content creation for your game is beneficial for everyone because they get more user created content to enjoy, it also advertises the game which will further populate the game and raise capital for the developers which can be used for more content updates. Also it's not like creating a referral system takes away resources from developing things in the game (people will say "they could of been making a new quest/raid but instead we get this BS"). You said that anyone with a youtube channel can apply, this is good to minimize anger, emphasize that this is an opportunity for anyone who plays the game to ""possibly"" make money for doing so.