Partnered: JACT Offers Rewards for Members (US only right now)

So far as I know, the business compliance issue only applies the EU, but there's still the obstacle of expensive shipping anywhere outside US addresses. Since JACT offers free shipping on all prize redemptions, that would cause our costs to sky-rocket. As I said earlier, we're looking at a pay-for-shipping option for those of you in other countries. If that's something you'd be interested in, let me know either here or on the JACT forums. The more support the better!

Lol, reminds me of Homer Simpson


EDIT: How can I sign up from Europe? I know I won't get any stuff from them, but I'd like to sign up anyway. I need to enter an US zip code I think...

great site. i got enough points for a new mouse from just playing gw from jact. shipping is kinda slow but it is free so hey!

It's not too good to be true. You make around 150 Bux every couple of hours playing, and most items in the store cost 10,000+

It would indeed be something I would be interested in. Naturally when it comes to shipping costs it then remains your customer's choice whether they redeem their points or not, but for me the point is really actually HAVING the choice in the first place.

I just tried it. Was really skeptical at first but it seems legit.

The client is spyware/adware free. I scanned it and found nothing, and no other users have reported problems.

The client is similar to xfire. It has an ingame interface that you can disable which tracks credit earned, etc etc.

The client seems non intrusive, you can have it startup with your system to the task tray and never have to see it. Doesn't use many system resource.

You cannot simply leave your game idle and accumulate hours like xfire. If your are idle in game your status will change to idle in the client. The only way to earn points is to be constantly doing something ingame (mouse movement and keyboard strokes). They have countermeasures against auto clicking/movement programs so using them will get you banned.

The prizes seem overly expensive points wise.

There are alot of prizes. Everything from the hl2 episode pack (eps 1 + 2, hl2: deathmatch) for 9411 minutes of gameplay to high tech computer cases for 131,192 minutes of gameplay.

Shipping is included in the point cost, so the items really are free if you aquire enough credit.

The cart/checkout system is flawless, fill in your mailing address in your profile, and buying anything takes three clicks max and an invoice is sent to your e-mail.

There are a number of raffles for very expensive items that you can constantly participate in for a very small number of points (usually 100).

The mall lacks any type of advanced search or drill down function, so searching for a particular item is a hassle.

You cant buy any guild wars campaign or expansion with points from the mall.

Only about 300 supported games, so not every game will count towards earning points. Most major games (gw, wow, valve games, etc etc) are supported.

The way I see it, its like frequent flier miles. It takes a while to get something nice, but when you get something worth 300 bucks for free you realize how wise of you it was to participate. I think I will continue to run the client and eventually buy something semi-expensive.

I started using JACT this weekend, after i saw it on the forum last week and got a an invite shortly after that. The point accrual is somewhere between 1minute:1BUX and 2:1 BUX. It really depends on what your playing and how your playing. If your farming its somewhere around 4:3 because your constantly moving and sending data to the server. If your vanquishing its around 3:2, if you keep active and kill stuff. If you're chatting in town its like 10-20 points an hour. As well, i'm not positive, but it sometime seems like the rate goes up the longer you play.

Just playing on a weekend you can easily get 500 points, if you still play around 2-3 hours a day. However, at that rate you'll never get anything from the JACT mall. With that you can buy some raffle tickets which they do weekly and often have some very expensive and nice prizes. Also, if you buy 5 tickets you get 1 free, and most raffle tickets are around 100 BUX. This is probably your best chance to get something if your just a casual gamer.

If your more of a hardcore gamer, you can earn about 1000 a weekend at 6-7 hours/day and 100-150/day if play 3-4 hours during the week. At this rate, you could get a bluray movie (20k-30k BUX) in a bout 3 months, a new mouse (40k-50k BUX) in 5-6 months, or a G15 keyboard or some other gaming keyboard in year (70-100k BUX).

The only other thing is that if you find what you want in the store, you better buy it quickly because they only stock usually about 3 or so per item. And if its a good item, it'll sell quick once people find its in stock. Otherwise you'll have to wait till they restock. The G15 for instance, sold out in less than a day. I looked monday it wasn't there. Found it yesterday. Gone by early this morning. So if that happens, just wait till it comes back in stock if its a popular item, or you can re-request it on the forums.

The accrual rate is pretty slow but you can't beat it. I mean a few bluray movie every couple months, or if you can wait a new gaming keyboard once a year. I mean its free. Literally. Just think of it as an extra christmas present.

Since you guys have been so good about providing reviews/feedback on what you think of JACT so far if anyone has an extra minute (and fifty seconds), please check out our first video and let us know what you think of it. The good and/or the bad. Thanks!

JACT commercial

How's Canada looking? If you can ship to Alaska... Canada shouldn't be a problem unless there are some business laws (especially Quebec who have some really ridiculous laws).

commercial was too slow. this other JACT commercial is better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeA0a...eature=related

Oh my. that video needs to be destroyed coil. >.<

But yea the commercial was a tad long/slow. And the extra ending was funny but it does make it seem like its a joke.


[ BTW if you want join - send me a pm first as I have a few invites to give out ]

See, I kind of like the ending, but I understand where you are coming from. Like he's talking about JACT being some kind of joke instead of the guy who threw the mouse at him.

But I also think it is a tad long/slow. I was telling the producer that before I posted - 1:50 is a bit long. Which scene would you cut out to make it shorter?

Thanks for all the feedback.

-juno

edit:// coil, I totally saw that video one day while searching for jact stuff online as well. funny stuff. not sure if it's good or bad to be associated with that video (although we have no idea who made it and it doesn't really have anything to do with jact ).

Hmmm...lets see. I would personally cut out the part where the two guys stare at each other after running over the box and the part where the girl jogging lays on the ground and the camera just sits there while she pulls out the box from under her. You could easily drop 30s from the video.

IMO ideally the video should be:
Guy doing Yardwork
Narrator says her line about earning points for yardwork.
Transition when the guy mows over the box.
Then have the girl jogging.
Narrator says her line about earning points for jogging.
Shorten the scene where shes stares at the guy and then trips. (like 15s long not 35s)
Then transition to the guy in the room just after the trip and her thud on the payment.
Narrators puts a little more emphasis on her lines about 'living in the world where you earn points for PC games' and 'Well you do'. Moreso 'Well you do.' The first line is good.
Then Rest of that room full of boxes scene is good.
Then the Get Jact Scene.

Then you have one with and one without the extra ending of him getting smacked in the face.

You should be able to get this commercial down to around a minute or so long.

If that doesn't make sense. I could rip the youtube and roughly splice together the parts I'm talking about. The words wouldn't quite match up, but you'd get the idea of the rest of the video.

PS - By the way, I did a quick look over on the JACT forums and didn't see anything further about it. Well scratch that - I found a thread from a back in august and july. So not to recent and the video link in that one is private.

Ok thanks. I will pass all of that on for sure. edit:// I'd like to get it down to under a minute, I think. No longer than that.
Yeah, this is actually one of the first places we've posted it. It's also on our myspace page.

Oh ok. I was wondering why there wasn't any talk about it.

A minutes do-able though. The funny ending is worth 25s on its own. If you condense the jogging sequence which is close to the longest part of commercial, you'll be a little over a minute.

Look forward to seeing the final product. Let me know if I can do anything else.

I've a question: Do they ship to US territories, like the USVI?

Because of the way it works, there's going to be many ways to get around this, given enough time. They're just not going to be published ;p

I'm getting an answer for you....

edit://
Answer: We cannot ship to the US VI unfortunately. : (

However, there is talk of rolling out some features to international gamers as early as Q1 2009... stay tuned!

edit:// Also, for anyone who is still thinking of joining, ask a GWGuru friend who's already a member to send you an invite. We just rolled out our Gamer Holiday Bonus campaign, which tripled the referral rewards through the end of the year.