Comments on: Steam Affiliate Program http://adchased.com/steam-affiliate-program/ Affiliate Marketing, PPC, SEO, Online Marketing Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:36:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Rader http://adchased.com/steam-affiliate-program/comment-page-1/#comment-13 David Rader Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:36:38 +0000 http://adchased.com/?p=4#comment-13 Their user base does a lot of free marketing for them already. I.e. It's partially a social site where people are encouraged (and do so) buy games for friends as gifts, recommend games, and are taunted by seeing people on your friends-list with the status of "in a new game you don't have." In my opinion, as far as customer orientation goes, steam is a big fat fail right now. Once you buy a game on steam, you can never trade or resell it and they (intentionally?) put this in the fine print, so you don't realize you're screwed until you wake up cold, naked and sticking to someones bed you didn't know. I think this kind of intentional customer attack (imo, they do this to "force" addtl. sales) can make an affiliate look as bad as steam. Fix? Steam should make games tradable within the system or sellable- EVEN IF THEY TAKE A SMALL COMMISSION. Bastards. Just want to give you a fair warning so people don't mistrust your brand due to a brand you understandably were mistaken was customer friendly. Where is the "subscribe to comments" link on this thread? Their user base does a lot of free marketing for them already. I.e. It’s partially a social site where people are encouraged (and do so) buy games for friends as gifts, recommend games, and are taunted by seeing people on your friends-list with the status of “in a new game you don’t have.”

In my opinion, as far as customer orientation goes, steam is a big fat fail right now. Once you buy a game on steam, you can never trade or resell it and they (intentionally?) put this in the fine print, so you don’t realize you’re screwed until you wake up cold, naked and sticking to someones bed you didn’t know. I think this kind of intentional customer attack (imo, they do this to “force” addtl. sales) can make an affiliate look as bad as steam. Fix? Steam should make games tradable within the system or sellable- EVEN IF THEY TAKE A SMALL COMMISSION. Bastards. Just want to give you a fair warning so people don’t mistrust your brand due to a brand you understandably were mistaken was customer friendly.

Where is the “subscribe to comments” link on this thread?

]]> By: Joshua http://adchased.com/steam-affiliate-program/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Joshua Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:18:41 +0000 http://adchased.com/?p=4#comment-10 Agreed. Steam would make a great source of affiliate commissions on my websites. Plus, they would make a lot of money from first time buyers of Steam games that would later become repeat buyers since they have Steam on their computer. Agreed. Steam would make a great source of affiliate commissions on my websites. Plus, they would make a lot of money from first time buyers of Steam games that would later become repeat buyers since they have Steam on their computer.

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