[h2] About Referrals.[/h2]
In the past, first time purchases of premium gave players a referral. This referral allowed a player to nominate someone to receive 20 days premium time or 3 silver. When we reworked premium prices, we added the special first time premium packages and removed the referrals as we felt the cheaper prices gave better value than a referral.
By a mistake in our shop code, Steam-purchased first time offers gave players a referral and 2s extra to the actual offer.
While it was never intended, we see that inconsistent shop offers can be misleading and players can follow the word-of-mouth in deciding what to spend their money on - for that reason, shortly after the server restart today we are granting 20 days of premium + 2 silvers to all accounts that have not received the referral when the same Steam Store purchase offers gave it away. Those are accounts that have purchased the starter packages from our website in the time since the Steam release until now.
Referrals are with this update no longer given away for any shop offer, as per the original intention since the latest shop changes.
[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]
- Fixed invisible inventory items.
- Marks Store on Defiance will be enabled back shortly after the update.
- Marks Store moonmetal lumps on the Northern Freedom Isles cluster have been temporarily disabled as they unbalanced the natural progression of the server.
- Fixed referrals still being granted for purchases - expect a WSA about the referral situation soon.