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Kumu Honua · Nov 20, 2008, 11:39 PM // 23:39

I am not getting the site to load at all. None of the links in this thread are loading.

Feathermoore Rep · Nov 21, 2008, 05:05 AM // 05:05

I think their server is down since this past afternoon. I hadn't noticed for a bit, but then i noticed it wasn't updating. I just tried to login into the client again refresh it but its still down. And their site is still down as of midnight.

Kuma if your looking for an invite send me a pm.

Fishdert · Nov 26, 2008, 03:48 PM // 15:48

Meh... Most of the rewards suck for getting ads shoved in my face.

Feathermoore Rep · Nov 27, 2008, 02:03 AM // 02:03

For getting ads shoved in your face??? How do you figure?

The client has no ads.

The website has a lower sidebar and a small banner for advertising, which blend quite nicely with the webpage layout. No popups either.

And they have pretty much any prize you could want, not too mention you can request a prize to be added. They run everything from entire computer raffles to mouse pads to games/dvds to t-shirts to gaming mice to the g15 keyboard to random boxes of cookies. Not entirely sure what you your looking for, but they provide a good selection of items for a service thats free. Just gotta look for it a little.

The only real thing lacking is a mall search option, which i believe has already been suggested on the JACT forums.

Sooo i don't really see where you're coming from here...

Old Man Of Ascalon · Dec 18, 2008, 11:14 PM // 23:14

Question for the community organizer guy:

Say I use JACT and I get my rewards fine and dandy because I'm in the U.S. but I have a friend in say, Australia for example who would also like to participate. If I had my own JACT app on my machine for my rewards, could he theoretically install JACT on his machine in Australia and earn points? After he had gotten the points (if at all possible), redeem them for a prize, have the reward sent to me and then I send it to him? Or would this be considered cheating or are the JACT points themselves only available for people in the U.S?

Coney · Dec 27, 2008, 04:40 AM // 04:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inde

... download the client. It's very small, and has no spyware or viruses and no in-game ads

Hmmm...

***MAJOR*** skeptic here.

EDIT: Can we preview the C (Java) source?

Feathermoore Rep · Dec 27, 2008, 06:43 PM // 18:43

I'm not the community manager, but i'll answer some questions.

Old Man - The legal answer is probably no. You'd have to clarify that with the JACT community manager because they don't even support international membership let alone shipping.

Coney - I dont believe they will let you view the source code. I was skeptic at first too, so I read around the forums and its legit. I know 3 people that personally use it and I have heard no complaints. It pretty low key on the ram usage, and you can even set it to not display in game. But its better you do so you can see your activity and point counter. No ads in game. The only ads you see are on the website so they can help keep it up for free. I have yet to encouter any spyware (spybot search & destory is a GREAT freeware program and hasn't detected anything for the past three months). And I still have all of my game accounts that i play using eamonn active, nothing even detected about keyloggers and etc. And if you still don't believe Inde, idk why. Or don't believe me, then you can register and post more questions on their forum. Or wait until the community manager comes around and posts again.

Butsreally its 100% legit.

juno_ilix · Dec 28, 2008, 05:25 PM // 17:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Old Man Of Ascalon

Question for the community organizer guy:

Say I use JACT and I get my rewards fine and dandy because I'm in the U.S. but I have a friend in say, Australia for example who would also like to participate. If I had my own JACT app on my machine for my rewards, could he theoretically install JACT on his machine in Australia and earn points? After he had gotten the points (if at all possible), redeem them for a prize, have the reward sent to me and then I send it to him? Or would this be considered cheating or are the JACT points themselves only available for people in the U.S?

Unfortunately you cannot share an account with anyone (one account per person). Doing so may cause your account to be banned. However, once you receive your prize for your own account, you're free to do whatever you want with it, including shipping it to Australia if you so choose!

Lady Syve · Dec 28, 2008, 06:15 PM // 18:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by juno_ilix

Unfortunately you cannot share an account with anyone (one account per person). Doing so may cause your account to be banned. However, once you receive your prize for your own account, you're free to do whatever you want with it, including shipping it to Australia if you so choose!

He did not want to share accounts, only the sending address. He was asking if his Australian friend, after downloading JACT and earning his own points, could use Old Man's U.S. address to send rewards to. Then Old Man would send the rewards on to his Australian friend.

warrior running · Jan 11, 2009, 04:44 AM // 04:44

So when will it be expanded to other places

Batou of Nine · Jan 13, 2009, 08:44 PM // 20:44

I cannot for the life of me find anywhere on teh site itself or elsewhere...
HOW much "BUX" do we actually get per minute of gaming.

Additionally, its only for PC games right? Since you have to download a program that monitors your gaming time.
But, they still ask about console games, as well as give console games out for prizes...
So whats the deal there?

Feathermoore Rep · Jan 13, 2009, 09:47 PM // 21:47

The rate varies. There were some thread(s) on the JACT forum about this topic, but you'd have to search a little to find them. (gasp)

But the rate varies depending on the type of game you play and how active in game you are (mouse clicks, keyboard stroke, amount of packets constantly sent, etc etc.) They don't give you an exact rate, because they say they constantly make same changes to it. But the general observed rate is 1BUX:1 min to 1BUX:2min usually. It really depends on how active you are in the game. If you afk in town and sell some stuff you won't get as much because the client doesn't register you as active. If you vanquish for an hour you'll usually get pretty close to 50-60 BUX. This is true for all other games I've played. I don't think I've ever reached an exact 1 to 1 ratio. But it gets close. The only game you can earn more on is CSS competition mode for JACT. That can get you 4-5X the normal rate. AKA 4-5BUX:1min is theoretically possible, but thats depends on a lot of factors. You can read more on that on their website.

And yes its PC games only at the moment.But they offer prizes for everything under the sun. Candy, videos, furniture, electronics, you ask for it and they'll try and offer it as a reward for you.

The reason they ask about your console games is because companies pay for information on what gamers play, on what systems, console or PC, how many hours a week, how many games they buy in a month/year, all of that goes into the making/marketing/selling of a game. Companies want to be sure they have a market for their product. If no one plays FPS on the Wii, then a company isn't likely to design it for that. They'll try to put it on the PC, 360 or PS3. Basically they are trading information on their gamers HABITS for prizes for those gamers. Not information about the gamers, about their HABITS. Thats the part most people don't get about JACT.

Batou of Nine · Jan 14, 2009, 07:44 PM // 19:44

Ah thx for the info.
heh, btw a search for "JACT" only reveals 2 threads total on this whole forum.
This thread and some random unrelated one.

I did just realize now after revisiting, their website has their own forum!
I'll browse that for more info. thx agian

go cubs · Feb 26, 2009, 07:35 PM // 19:35

How do i see the prizes i can get with bux?

keithmcm · Mar 03, 2009, 06:03 AM // 06:03

Is the site down or disappeared? I have been in offline mode a few days, and their website doesn't load.

Nerthing · Mar 03, 2009, 03:02 PM // 15:02

It was working fine for me yesterday. The site/program go down every once in a while (I'd say about one day every 3 weeks).

Apollo Smile · Mar 05, 2009, 12:38 AM // 00:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by go cubs

How do i see the prizes i can get with bux?

Log into your account then click on the Mall link. It will show ur points and let you look at whats available. It changes every day. I've got enough points to get a couple games but I am gonna stockpile em and get a new video card, my Radeon is gettin outdated.

Eragon Zarroc · Apr 09, 2009, 04:10 AM // 04:10

lol, i never remember to open this program up when i play ;-)

Feathermoore Rep · Apr 10, 2009, 12:00 AM // 00:00

Set it to start up when windows loads. That way you don't have to remember to open it.

Kumu Honua · Apr 10, 2009, 11:02 PM // 23:02

I'll give my insight to this program as it stands. I had hoped to have received a prize to give my full opinion, but with the delays I am unsure when that will happen. I'm coming up on 8 weeks in 6 days.

Getting anything free for doing stuff you already were going to do is an awesome idea. Especially if their operations model works, and it appears that it does indeed.

The good:

The program that counts up your point accumulation is low resource, and unobtrusive. Moveable to your own desires.

The point accumulation is pretty decent. On a full weekend day of playing I can make 1000-1500 points.

Pretty decent selection of games that it works with. I have not had any issues with supported games. They have all run fine with jact running, and jact has always counted my point accumulation.

The program is virus/spyware free, and all communications with their servers are above board. No personally identifiable information is obtained and sent.

The bad:

While they have a ton of products, my personally desired categories tend to be rather sparse. PC games specifically have only had at most 7 options. When there is an item you want, you better grab it fast because the quantity available is only 3 (As far as I've seen) and will not be there tomorrow probably. Things do restock, but it can be frustrating. Additionally, cheaper items (Sub 10,000) seem to be few and far between.

6-8 week delivery times are quite high. Makes any option for "New" games to not really be much of an option as you want to play them when they are released, not two months later for the most part. Not so bad for older games. Also means using your points to buy a replacement part (New vid card when yours fries) is not an option.

Many sections of the forum are not updated as they should be. Especially the "raffle" section. The end of march had a raffle. 3/20 was the drawing date. However after that date it was still possible to buy tickets for a few days (3-4). Additionally, the "Raffle winners" section of the forum was not updated with any winners. It took a response in another thread to point to another location to learn of winners. There is still no thread in the raffle section pointing to this location.

The ugly:

There are many many posts from users with prize delivery being far longer than the 8 week maximum listed. They currently posted a blog about issues, and delays, and ask for patience. The items *ARE* free, but the delays are a real turn off.

I personally was banned. It was overturned after I emailed them and gave my side of the issue (Kudos to them for fast response to this issue). The biggest problem with this that I have is that the reason for the ban was automated. It appears that multiple long duration gaming sessions can cause you to be flagged/banned. I had a few 14 hour+ days of constant gaming. I know that I am an anomoly with far too much free time, but the ease at which I seemed to reach that threshold has me worried that it will happen again.

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All of this being said:

I would still recommend Jact to anyone who does a lot of gaming. Especially those who play GW since it is definitely a supported game. Getting free stuff for playing video games is always a bonus.

If you can get past the shipping delays by ordering things that you don't want *NOW* and are quite willing to get a few months down the line then it will be perfect for you.

If they could increase the quantity and selection in the item mall, and reduce the delivery time for orders placed, I would have almost no issues with jact at all.

I hope that this is a good enough review and some of you will be able to join in the program or at least those who are on the fence would be swayed to a decision.