There are dozens of blogs and sites dedicated to the unending quest for free ourWorld Gems. Many provide the latest Gem Codes and details on any Gem related offers that might be going on. I'm going to try to list every consistent way a player can get free Gems, plus the advantages or disadvantages of each offer. I'm not including contests, like the Webhunts, as they do not provide Gems to a large number of players.
Invite Friends - ourWorld's original free Gem offer. Invite new players to play via Email or Link (like the one to the left), and as they gain levels you get Gems. 1 per level gained, awarded every 5th level. This can be quite lucrative, as one player who linked from this blog reached level 100, providing my account with 100 free Gems.
Advantages: Once new players accept the invite and play, free Gems just appear without any additional effort from the referrer.
Disadvantages: Players making fake accounts and leveling them have forced us to cap how the Gems are awarded. While this has no effect on players who use the program as intended (inviting new players) players who are cheating the system with accounts they make themselves become confused then the Gems stop coming.
ourWorld Newsletter - About once per month, ourWorld releases an electronic Newsletter that includes the game's latest features and a Gem Code worth 10 Gems.
Advantages: Gem Code works once for everybody.
Disadvantages: Players under 13 don't get the newsletter. Newsletter is released on an irregular schedule. The Gem Code works once per account and expires a few weeks after the Newsletter is released.
ourWorld Toolbar - Every Monday, around 12pm PST, players who have installed the ourWorld Toolbar get a new Gem Code worth 10 Gems. The code only works when the game is launched through the Toolbar, preventing non-Toolbar users from getting the Gems.
Advantage: More free Gems are awarded via the Toolbar than any other method. Also, it's not a terrible Toolbar. I've installed it both at work and at home.
Disadvantage: Players who's accounts are created on Facebook and Tagged can't use the toolbar, nor can players using less mainstream web browsers. Some players (and their parents) are afraid the toolbar will harm their computers. Despite false rumors to the contrary, the thing is not capable of harming anyone's computer. The Gem Codes work once per account and expire after one week.
Gambit & Super Rewards - Some game sites use these (and similar) programs as their sole source of income. They are essentially sites with hundreds of promotional offers, both free and otherwise. The companies that host the offers pay Gambit & Super Rewards when the offers are completed, and ourWorld gets a cut. The reward for the player is paid out in Gems.
Advantage: These offers are the only way a player can get a large number of Gems without actually purchasing them. Some are very easy, requiring little more than a few minutes of attention.
Disavantage: The offers change rapidly and there is no way for ourWorld to review all of them. ourWorld selects the 'safest' offers available, but there are still complaints about spam and other problems. Not all the offers are truly free, so players must pay attention when selecting them. There are also many reports of 'completed' offers not paying out, though ourWorld has no say in whether or not an offer is checked off as completed. These problems have improved dramatically in the last few months, as the promo offer industry has gone through a bit of shake up recently.
TMPSocial - ourWorld's latest free Gem offer appears directly in some ourWorld players' inboxes. Players follow the link, view the material or add the Facebook app, and up to 20 Gems are awarded.
Advantage: Easy, quick, and the Gem payout is larger than the usual Gambit or Super Rewards offer for the effort required.
Disadvantage: Not all players get the offers. New players and younger players don't get them. Facebook has been required for most of them. There have been a few reports of Gems not being awarded, but we haven't been able to verify the reasons. Like Gambit and Super Rewards, ourWorld only awards the Gems when TMPSocial tells us the offer was successfully completed.
I'm sure I've forgotten something, but that's the basic list. The business of games like ourWorld is to sell Gems, not give them away, so if somebody says you can get a lot of Gems for free, it's either a scam or there's a catch. Even most of these offers aren't really free. Players are being paid in Gems for performing an action ourWorld is getting paid real money for (not much money, but some.)
If you look at it, shelling out $5.99 for 150 Gems and membership is probably the easiest way to get Gems of them all. Coming soon, $10 ourWorld Gift cards for 1 month Resident +300 Gems will be appearing in US stores everywhere! (Photo coming soon as well!)
Adam!!!
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7 comments:
Adam, I want to see that picture now.
Haha.
What about coupons online or outside the US? Like Europe? [The ones you mentioned in the end]
About the post,I agree with you with both my hands up and legs too. ourWorld is giving a lot of free gems away already. So,people should be thankful and stop complaining.
Adding payment options is hard, so adding new payment options for a new country would have to either apply to a lot of countries, like Europe, or a single country that already has a large number of players, like the US or Brazil.
What about Europe? I really don't know.
Hi sir. What about Canada? How am i going to pay from Canada because there is nothing or no shop for the ourworld advertisment.
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When can people expect the $10 OurWorld gift card to be sold in stores in the U.S.? Is there a set date?
We're ready for the gift cards now. It's just a matter of getting them distributed to stores. I ask every week, and the answer is always "soon". Soon it is!
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