[Scummvm-devel] I removed DotEmu affiliation links

[Eugene Sandulenko]

Hi Arnaud,

I don't quite understand how this removal affects users' ability to buy the
games? E.g. we enlist DotEmu on our Wiki for several games, and of course
could elaborate on their presense a bit in a leading paragraph or something.

Also this doesn't affect our relationships in any way. E.g. as I see,
throughout 2 years we help them to sell 77 game copies, while for GOG.com
for the same period we generated 4,533 purchases and got 493 accounts
created. And both accounts were present in a similar prominence on our
sites.


Eugene


On 1 September 2014 09:45, Arnaud Boutonné <strangerke at scummvm.org> wrote:

> Hi Eugene, hi guys
>
> I sincerely regret that we are losing this affiliation program as it was a
> way to actively point users to a legitimate way to buy some games we
> support. During those last years, we also got thanks to DotEmu the sources
> of Mortevielle and Tony Tough, and they made visible efforts to advertise
> for us more than GPL strictly requires.
>
> I hope we'll manage to keep collaborate with them in the future and, who
> knows, find a way to settle a new affiliation program which we could
> benefit this time.
>
> Best regards,
> Arnaud
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Eugene Sandulenko <sev at scummvm.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> I just fixed the gog.com links, as they recently overhauled their whole
>> website structure and were lazy enough to implements redirects for old
>> structure, and as a result they broke whole affiliation program.
>>
>> While doing that I finally came down to removing all affiliation links
>> for DotEmu. As perhaps some of you know, those links do not worth our
>> website space unfortunately. During 2 years while those links were up we
>> got nothing from the program and I mean that. At the same time gog.com
>> is very generous and successful. The primary reason for the difference is
>> that DotEmu requires every game to be bought via affiliation links, when
>> GOG.com counts in every user which comes through those.
>>
>> Thus besides being all fine with us especially in terms of GPL, giving
>> life to old games and making them available again, GOG.com manages to
>> gracefully give thanks back to our project, so at least our hosting
>> expenses are covered.
>>
>>
>> Eugene
>>
>>
>>
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