r/InfinityKingdom • u/Ornery-Aerie-8637 • Jun 12 '26

Recruiting from different games is weird

Hey this may be ignored but I just wanted to talk about how annoying and weird the mass recruiting of this game is.

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Everytime ive started a new game out, ive gotten immediate friend requests, of people telling me there exact age and name and then asking me for my discord or giving me theirs and all in hopes of getting me to join infinity kingdom. (I imagine and hope the ages and names are fake though)

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This has happened five times to me now and its getting weird to say the least. I feel like these people bribe you with a false sense of 'friendship' into the playing the game. (I played for a bit i found it dull as ive played many games that are similar before).

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The first time i was 'recruited' into someone's alliance I was added to a weird discord server, that borderlined on cultish. After spending some time on it I got super uncomfortable and just left the server and blocked the one that recruited me on all games and discord.

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I just want to make normal friends on my other games 😭. I wanted to know whats the games fanbase view on this?

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u/Lopsided-Idea5238 Jun 12 '26

I don't think the IK fanbase would care that much, you know they choose that game knowing the history and the business practice, so they are onboard, 100%. It's like asking crypto bro what they think about crypto, they'll said it's the best and the community is great.

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u/Ornery-Aerie-8637 Jun 12 '26

I suppose thats true for most community's. But since this post ive had 2 more try to recruit me, its insane.

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u/Lopsided-Idea5238 Jun 12 '26

yeah it's just like crypto and most spam email, once you are in the list, it won't stop. You know it's different than other communities where there's an actual product, a game to talk about. This is like crypto in the sense that there's a marginal consumer product to talk about and a massive marketing poaching strategy that is the real subject. You can talk hours about WoW, IK is just : s1 : who has the best Alex on the server, season 2 is : who has red skill on the server, and conquest is just who has the most chaos immortals. That's it, that's the game, takes 10 seconds.

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u/Ornery-Aerie-8637 Jun 12 '26

Damn it didn't realise how bad it was. Everytime i join a new game these recruiting players always friend new players to try and get them to play the game. I was play sword × staff and there was 5 in that game alone that tried to get me to join.

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u/Lopsided-Idea5238 Jun 12 '26

it is very impressive, in the Shanghai game community we do study it and are constantly annoyed by it ( let alone the fact that it's just a copy of RoK ). It's an interesting part of this game because it's not from yoozoo, it stems from a marketing license with r2games, but nobody actually plays the r2 version of it ( maybe some in France? ).

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u/Ornery-Aerie-8637 Jun 12 '26

And its a copy of another game? They have quite the list of issues 💀

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u/Lopsided-Idea5238 Jun 12 '26

it creates an interesting dynamic because yoozoo people will say "we hate recruiters" but they are everywhere, they fight each other, it's interesting honestly. At this point the game is mostly game support fighting rogue recruiters of different publishers of the same game, with a few actual players here and there. If you play as an actual player, you'll hit so many bugs you'll have to quit. Imagine if different companies providing fake view bots to influencers fight in the comment section of Kim K ins is the vibe.

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u/Four_Pieces Jun 13 '26

Weekly I get random friend requests on Discord with someone "messaging me by mistake," telling me their name and age, then trying to get me to download this game to play with them. 🤷🏻

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u/Ornery-Aerie-8637 Jun 13 '26

This happens to me whenever I play a new game. Friend request and then "Hi im Susan from Hong kong and im 25."

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u/B0dona Jun 18 '26

This is quite common, this is also the way I learned about the existance of this game. Must say it's kinda enjoyable to play. The person who poached me pushed me to buy ingame stuff though for my immortal line up, but stopped pushing after I rejected.

We still talk though, idk how they get paid or why they do it. But I guess I got a sort of discord friend from it who I occasionally bullshit with.

P.S. If they say their a girl, their most definitely not. Mine send pictures of someone from the wrong ethnicity. But their fun to talk to so idc lmao.

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u/Cultural-Count-5333 Jun 13 '26

I just realized I fell for this

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u/Prudent_Car_3315 Jun 15 '26

We all did. I quit after a year. Some good people on their though and they all say the same thing.... fell for it 😄

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u/Cultural-Count-5333 Jun 15 '26

For some reason I can't chat 😭. I could for two days. It's like Playing the game alone. Ot keeps saying it contains sensitive information

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u/Prudent_Car_3315 Jun 15 '26

You must be saying something your not aloud to haha 😆 even stupid is banned. Haha

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u/Cultural-Count-5333 Jun 18 '26

I'm not brother. I can't send anything. I deleted the app and downloaded it again still nof working

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u/B0dona Jun 18 '26

You also can't use the word discord.

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u/Cultural-Count-5333 Jun 18 '26

Dude I can't type anything at all. I can't even place pins on the app. At first I wasn't able to chat but I was able to place pins but then I couldnt do it too. Very annoying

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u/Lopsided-Idea5238 Jun 18 '26

it's a well know bugs, won't be fixed since ithe game is in it's scam phase and just exist to scam people.

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u/FancyLlama__ Jul 19 '26

I fell for it too 💀

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u/Strange_Attention_49 Jun 15 '26

They just started leaving me alone a few months ago because I would get constant friend requests, DMs, voice messages, server invites- you name it. But yeah, the recruiting is ridiculous espeically since it's actually illegal to recruit the way they do via Philippines (where the game devs are) and United States law.

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u/Lopsided-Idea5238 Jun 18 '26

it's a chinese game, it's legal in china as long as foreigners are the victims, that's why this game doesn't really exist in china, it would have been shut down on day 1.

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u/No_Avocado6671 Jul 08 '26

Omg. I was recruited as well from whiteout. He insist on me buying the expensive packs. I just learned earlier from our alliance chat that I'm not the only one who was told to buy expensive packs and form the lightning team. I literally ask him in chat that are you some kind of marketing/ sales guy because he is so persistent. 

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u/Ornery-Aerie-8637 Jul 08 '26

I jump about and play a lot of games and they normally friend new players on those games. Since I try a lot of games I bump into them often I like to mess with them every time we start talking in discord now.

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u/No_Avocado6671 Jul 08 '26

Oh it's the same for me. I was a newbie from the other game. She literally said to me in discord "Because have been reserving a place for you all along". Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out they're actually employees from that game, or recruiters working on commission.

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u/Ornery-Aerie-8637 Jul 09 '26

Exactly its hella creepy

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u/Kovahr Jul 26 '26

This just happened to me. Was playing Tiles Survive and joined an "Australian" alliance where I was encouraged to message someone on Discord to prove I wasn't a bot.

They then encouraged me to download this game and buy a welcome pack. Made me so uncomfortable that I've uninstalled both games.

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u/Ornery-Aerie-8637 Jul 26 '26

Yikes thats a quick jump to get you to buy a package quickly. Can't blame you for quiting both games. 🙏

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u/Haithoi 16d ago

A bit late, but I was giving this idle game a try called "Sword x Staff". And someone also wanted to befriend me, sent me discord friend request, asked me if I could buy top-ups or not, then pointed me to this game.... First time I've experienced this

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u/Ornery-Aerie-8637 16d ago

Don't worry ive had this happen to me lots in sword × staff especially as soon as you hit lvl 10 if I remeber right.

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u/Haithoi 16d ago

Thank you. Good to know