Okay, my impetuous nature have already forced me to make something to regret about it. As well, as some misunderstanding.

Today I’ve got a message from Big Fish Games regarding to my question and my blog post with a detailed explanation of the situation. It seems, that some of their parnters are used th cheat with them by adding the “Tomorrow’s Games” to their websites using the BFG affiliate links to increase the number of members in their network.

I have to apologize for my previous post and to explain the situation (just click “Read more” if you want to see my explanations).

Truly said, I had almost the same idea for a while. Once I visited a BFG website and saw that I can download a “Tomorrow’s game” today from their website (I am still not sure if it was a bug because of my time zone, or something else). I thought that I was lucky that my “tomorrow” comes when its “today” for most US citizents and opened a list of games that are available for affiliates. And - oops, the “Tomorrow’s game” wasn’t here. Well, selling a game that is not available to affiliates is a bad idea, so I forgot about that. At least, how can you be sure that you’ll get a comission from the game which is not available for affiliates?

I am completely agree that Big Fish Games should agressively monitor the websites of their partners looking for such “cheaters”. Big Fish Games invest money in most of their exclusive games, and so they have a right to be first who sells the game. And by such miserable cheating in order to earn $2-$5 additinal dollars, the partners are discrediting themselves. How can I trust to someone who is always trying to cheat me? - The same situation is here.

The reason of my misunderstanding is the following paragraph:

“I am posting to remind everyone that launching a game that is not available via the XML feeds we provide to our partners is a direct violation of the Terms of Service. This includes launching “Tomorrow’s Game Today” on your own site.”

From this I understood, that if everyone (i.e. exclusive and non-exclusive partners) will launch a game that is not available via the XML feed (and it can be a game from another publisher that is not listed on BFG for now), including the “Tomorrow’s Game Today”, is violated the Terms of Service. I am personally think that “Tomorrow’s Game Today” is a brilliant marketing decision. And so I assumed, that they are trying to push on partners, who already have these games on their websites for some time, to give customers less chances to find the “Tomorrow’s Game” somewhere else. But I repeat - it was just my assumption. And because of this assumption I wrote the previous post.

And so I apologize. Again, and again. I should be careful in my blog in the future.

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