General Discussions

For those unfamiliar with our Lifetime PLUS membership, here are all of the details on the membership itself: Link.

We are currently working on a new option that will only be available for Lifetime PLUS subscribers. We hope to have it done by June 1st but we also have another large project in the works for months that we are trying to have ready within the next few days.

Each day we have a "worklist" of both new trainers that have met their request credit goal and a list of trainer update requests that have reached their limit of 3 reports. The list is split between our two full time programmers. Sometimes this list is small with only a handful of titles and sometimes the list is huge. For example, today we have 15 titles on the list. Not all of these will be done today or even tomorrow and the order in which they are worked on depends on a number of internal factors. New items are added to the list each day.

Soon, ALL users will have access to view our daily worklist to see which trainers and updates are in the queue. The list will NOT be in priority order.

Subscribers of Lifetime PLUS will have the option to "BOOST" the priority of any new trainer or update on the worklist for a specific amount of reward credits (RC). While this still will not guarantee that the boosted title will be completed that day, it WILL be the next trainer in the queue to be worked on once whatever the programmers have in progress are completed. Each title may only be boosted once until it's released or updated. Boosted titles will be marked on the worklist. If there are multiple boosted titles, they will be assigned in the order in which they were boosted. For example, if title A is boosted and then another user boosts title B, it will not move title B ahead of title A, it will be placed directly after title A.

BOOSTED TITLES will have no effect on whether or not a title gets a trainer or update. EVERY title on the worklist will still be worked on, and we may cap the number of titles allowed to be boosted at any one time as to not push non-boosted titles too far down the list. Titles on our worklist typically are always completed within a 3-5 day window. We do not expect that to change. This feature will simply change the priority in which the trainers are done, not whether they are done at all.

Just like with our requests section, any title that is boosted and found to either not need an update or a trainer is unable to be made, all credits spent towards the boost will be refunded to the user.

I'm posting this now as reward credits (RC) are only given out on the 1st day of each month, with the exception of the 25,000 credit bonus for signing up for Lifetime PLUS for the first time. If this sounds like something that you would be interested in, you can upgrade to Lifetime PLUS before June 1st and get those extra credits to use with this new feature. We anticipate this new function being completed within a week from today.

You may upgrade your account here: Link

Note that there is no direct upgrade path from free, monthly or yearly to Lifetime PLUS. One must first subscribe to our regular Lifetime membership and then the Plus upgrade options will become available.

We appreciate all of our members and are continuously looking to add more value to those users that choose to go above and beyond to support our site. Feel free to leave any feedback or comments here. Another announcement will be made once the new feature is live.

[Edited by PWizard, 5/29/2017 2:47:20 PM]

Sounds great. I may just have to take advantage of this. Will the one time signup bonus be available after the 1st? as I don't get paid till the 2nd.

[Edited by Varacka, 5/29/2017 2:40:06 PM]

Yes, the one time signup bonus is good anytime and is immediately applied to your account. But it's only once per account for life. Any additional credits will be a part of the monthly bonus and other bonuses given out throughout the year.

Awesome! I am looking forward to this. One of the reasons I haven't done this yet is most games are already either voted to max or are so big that it's a given they will get a trainer (any ubisoft,ea etc title with a tv spot). Any idea how much it will cost to "bump" a game? Will it be like the requests where it's based on demand etc or a set price?

Would it be possible to add to see if whether or not it was gifted and which version CH has, as to give the option of gifting another version if a different version trainer if required? As well as add-ons and DLC gifting now that i think about it. The lil gift box icon in the request list does not tell us a whole lot on what exactly was gifted. (Was it STEAM? Was it Origin? Was it deluxe? eg.)

Just an idea for ya to chew on.

Or it could be an added feature after the fact as well, when trainer is done.

[Edited by CyPHeR369, 5/29/2017 5:53:57 PM]

Also, will Gifted games have priority over Boosted games for getting trainers made?

Couple other options I wonder if you might consider for the Request list. Could you possibly add a Date column when the Request started? Games approaching the 90 days might spur members to add more of their existing credits or buy more rather than see a title fall off the list.

And could you possibly include a Legend at the bottom that details the value of the graphic boxes in the Popularity column?

These are all good questions that I will provide the answers for when we launch our two new features/products.

PWizard, thanks for sharing with us many of the details of yet another upcoming perk for plus members - I truly appreciate all that CH does for each of us!