Author Store is Launched!

Woo, the day has finally come when the author store is launched. A lot of hard work has been put into this, both on the technical end and on the business and legal side of things.

You can visit it at https://store.CurseForge.com/.

If you redeem an item, you won't receive it immediately. For the first little while, I'll be going through and approving all the redemptions manually, just to make sure everything's running smoothly.

In case you didn't read the previous announcements, in order to receive points which can be redeemed at the store, you must have an addon which has over 100 installs (as determined by the Curse Client).

The author rewards program is our (i.e. Curse, Inc's) way of rewarding our content producers which create incentive for users to subscribe to Curse Premium. 20% of all Curse Premium revenue goes directly into the Author Reward Program. This is our thank you for all your hard work.

Addons receive author reward points based on their popularity as determined by the Curse Client. Due to the amount of addons out there and the vast diversity, even the most popular addons only receive a few percent of the total pool, so don't give up hope. There are a few other details, but that is the main statistic. We feel that that provides the best relation as to what users actually want who use our services. We don't want to reveal all the nitty-gritty details in order to prevent gaming the system. If you do suspect gaming the system by someone (e.g. trying to actively manipulate statistics, uploading addons that aren't theirs, etc.), please report it. We want to reward those who actually deserve it, not those who think that they're crafty.

As a side note, everything store-related as well as standard logins now use HTTPS for security reasons.

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  • Avatar of Daviesh Daviesh Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:37:16

    Did something go screwy with point allocations over the last couple of days? All my contributors reckon their points stopped 2 days ago. My log seems to stop at the same point, but I just thought it was because of a different rounding system (100% of my points go to contributors, but I still get 0.00001 of a point or something like that due to rounding).

  • Avatar of Nevcairiel Nevcairiel Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:10:16

    You know, no matter how far you walk, you can never reach the horizon .. it'll always be far away

  • Avatar of ckknight ckknight Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:54:41

    Borlox, that is on the horizon.

  • Avatar of Borlox Borlox Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:32:51

    Will there be Amazon gift cards for Germany?

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02 Jul 2009
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