Warhammer Online’s Refer a Friend Program Upgraded

Posted on March 4, 2009
Filed Under Games, News, Warhammer Online

About a month ago I advertised that I’d be handing out Warhammer Online recruit a friend e-mails for a free 7 day trial to Warhammer Online, and I was able to give out a quite a few of them. It looks like the people at Mythic upped the ante again to try to bring in some fresh new blood to the servers. Check out some of the new features regarding the upgraded recruit a friend program.

New recruits will need to use the link in their invitation email to create their Recruit-A-Friend free ten (10) day trial.

It looks like now instead of 7 days, the free trial person will be able to play for 10 days, so three extra days for them.

Players may recruit new players or invite back former players that have been gone for more than sixty (60) days.

Also if I read this right if you have a friend who previously played this game before, and they haven’t played for more than 60 days then you can invite them back to play for a short while. I wonder if they will put a limit on this or will I be able to constantly reinvite someone every 2 months?

In-Game rewards will be applied retroactively for all previous recruits.

Now this is a nice one, so which means if any of the people I recruited become paying players (pay for 1 month subcription after the first month). I get to reap the benefits of the rewards. Wait did I say rewards? Yup heres whats in it for me, the recruiter, if I sign up a bunch of people to the game:

Free Game Time – For every recruit that becomes a paying subscriber, your account will be credited with 30 days of game time.

This already is a nice benefit, one free month for me.

Loyal Pet – Recruit two subscribers, and your King will present you with a loyal pet from his own kennels to join you on your journeys. *Begins March 5^th, 2009

Warhammer is finally introducing pets? Sweet, and it looks like if I bring some recruits in I’ll get these pets first hand. Now if only the recruits I signed up stay on longer than a month or two =). Check out the size of these things though. They aren’t the little wussy mini pets you get in World of Warcraft mind you. They are the same size as those White Lion pets. Check these two out for example:

Recruit a Friend Order Pet

This one looks like a giant bloodhound that could probably one shot an unlucky goblin player with a sit command. Geez what did they feed this thing.

Recruit a Friend Chaos Pet

And this mangy looking thing here is bigger than a dwarf, I think they fed him too one too many squigs. Now those are some Huge puppies! I definitely want one of these.

Now if that’s not enough to get people to invite more players to the game check these in game items out:

The Rod of Service
This gift from Karl Franz himself grants a 5% bonus to group experience and renown. In addition, it grants the wielder the power of Apprenticeship, allowing him to temporarily raise a realm-mate’s level to within two of his own.

The Collar of Servitude
This gift from Tchar’zanek himself grants a 5% bonus to group experience and renown. In addition, it grants the wielder the power of Indenture, allowing him to temporarily raise a realm-mate’s level to within two of his own.

Looks like Warhammer Online will have an apprenticeship program as well. Though I have to agree with Syp, and Rog about this feature being standardized for all players. It shouldn’t be an item just for people who have recruited people into the game. Even though this game does have a ‘bolster’ feature in rvr lakes, it would be pretty fun to get people up into T4 right out of the gate with this item. I remember the fun my guildmates, and I, had in Age of Conan when we brought out level 20 players to the level 80 zones. However from experience it is really nice to be able to bring people out to experience the end game right away without them having to grind out the low levels alone.

I for one am glad they are bringing in this type of feature into the game. It keeps the friends who don’t have as much play time, able to play with you in the upper tiers.

Anyways now I need your help to get me some paying recruits. If you haven’t played Warhammer Online in over 60 days (would be 12/31 as of this post date). Let me reinvite you back in time for the Slayer/Choppa release. The Bitter Rivals events starts March 3rd to be able to play the Slayer/Choppa classes a week early. If you haven’t tried the game out yet, I should have a few recruit a friend e-mails left so leave a comment here, and I will try to get you one as soon as I am able to.

Also if you haven’t picked up a copy of the game you can pick one up from this link below:

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3 Responses to “Warhammer Online’s Refer a Friend Program Upgraded”

Dieta (1 comments.) on March 12th, 2009 3:22 am

Pets is the best innovation ever! And I’m glad they finaly upped the trial time (from 7 to 10 days). It’s great to see that they’re giving more possibilietes to players.
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Pozycjonowanie Poznan (3 comments.) on April 3rd, 2009 1:38 am

Wow, that just might be the sweetest “invite a friend” deal I’ve seen in a while. Pets aside, as this should be a standard feature of all mmorpg, this really is great. Just invite all your friends from another gaming community and presto, you got yourself a handful of cool stuff and a free 6 months game time.

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