The backers of the Kickstarter project the Ouya are offered free credit for the store on the console. For those that don't know what the Ouya is, it's a console with the Android OS and it was one of the most successful Kickstarter projects ever.
The company behind the console had some problems with delivering the Ouya to its first backers, those who made the console a reality. On both the Kickstarter page and in the social media there were backers complaining about the delivery time of the console and that the console was in stores before the backers have received theirs.
The backers have received an email where CEO Julie Uhrman apologizes to all the backers that have had a problem with their Ouya. "If you feel you've had any kind of less-than-OUYA experience with us (a polite way of saying at any time you felt pissed at us for whatever the reason: late shipment, missing controllers, a delayed response to a CS ticket you opened), we'd like to give you a store credit of $13.37 to use toward any purchase(s) on DISCOVER." This means any backer would be able to request the credit, but it is actually meant for those that weren't pleased with their Ouya.
Offering this credit is also an advantage for the Ouya itself, since only about 27% of the users of the console have paid for a game since the official launch in the end of June. The free credit will probably change this, and it might push owners of the Ouya to buy some games with their own money.
So, all Kickstarter backers should check their mail inbox, and they might be able to buy a game without spending any money themselves. Everyone happy, right?
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