dull lily
Is it just me, or has anyone found that after making a payment for Darwinium, the ads have✨suddenly✨decided to start taking up to 20 MINUTES to actually get through?
It's frustrating because you can't skip the ads, and despite saying anywhere between 1s and 44s till reward, you must watch them till the end.. What's even worse is they'll often take an insane amount of freeze time to get to the end, and then the game restarts without the reward!!! 🤦🏻♂️
The other lesser problem associated with ads is that there's a set of "6 second" ads(oh goodie! Only 6 seconds!!) which get to "reward in 1s" which takes exactly 20 seconds to actually 😳 get... every time, like they're inherently designed that way! So, 🙄 they're actually 26-28 second ads(normal length 😒 boring) very POORLY disguised as 6 second ads.. I usually hate (and I mean HATE!) ads even at the BEST of times, but when they're FALSE ads (including the reward timer!), I'm 100% DEFINITELY not going to be interested in WHATEVER is being advertised!!
Another issue is ads cutting out my radio or anything else I'm listening to! You have to WATCH an ad for a reward! Any ad that cuts out what I'm listening to immediately goes into the "100% DEAF-INITELY NOT INTERESTED" category, no matter WHAT they're advertising! I also put ads that you need click any more than once to get back to the game into that category (pretty much EVERY ad, with few exceptions!); this is FALSE advertising! Watch AN ad, not FOUR of them for the SAME product!
Any ad that takes me to the App Store like I'm somehow too stupid to know how to get there myself IF I AM INTERESTED in their product- immediately goes into the 100% DEFINITELY NOT INTERESTED category.. I don't appreciate even the slightest hint of manipulation or coercion to download any app
🙄Ugh.. I could just about write a book on all the problems & frustrations I find with ads(in general, not just in this game) 😒
There are SO many companies who surely do not want certain people(who don't like being lied to) as customers, and yet they'll WASTE everyone's time advertising what they don't have to offer! This is especially true of a lot of games that get advertised- even to the point where IN the ad it actually blatantly states: "Not actual game footage"... 😳So, why are they WASTING time advertising something ELSE that ISN'T what they're offering?? 🤨🤷🏻♂️ Who the Hell sells apples but advertises oranges stating- "Not actual product on offer"?? Like 🙄🤷🏻♂️ they're both types of fruit!! 😳If you're selling apples, then advertise apples!!!
I don't care how small the lie is- if you can't be trusted with the little things, you can't be trusted with much
dull lily
I don't want to enter any type of relationship with anyone or any company that wants to build such relationship on a foundation of lies! Even if it's as "petty" as a 28 second ad poorly masquerading as a 6 second ad.. I can't imagine why the game developers would make it freeze like that... Correct me if I'm failing to see some perspective but- 🤷🏻♂️ There's surely nothing in it for the game developer to piss the players off like that; I have to assume by any reason that the ad developer has designed the ad that way... Any publicity is good publicity, which is why I won't even give these ad developers the satisfaction of me even naming these dodgy ads or their products
There's a whole bunch of ads that the little X, or "skip ad" in the corner is SO tiny, I've pressed it(or 🙄🤷🏻♂️ apparently 1 pixel next to it)up to SIXTEEN times before it's stopped taking me to the app store and actually exited the ad & finally rewarded me!! I have a real special hate for these companies
I swear you need a friggin pinhead to click the X sometimes!!! 😠
I swear you need a pinhead to click the X on some of these ads!! Even then I reckon they're designed such that even if I DID use a pinhead and clicked DEFINITELY 100% INSIDE the X, it'd still take me to the play store.. I think at least some of these ads don't actually HAVE an X anywhere on the screen until the ad has FORCED you to go to the app store at least 3 times
dull lily
In short, apart from me getting a reward, the only other reason I watch ads is to Support The Developers, because unfortunately I don't have a real lot of money to spend on the game, and I think if I've been playing for 3 or so years, 🤷🏻♂️the game is probably worth paying for! Hence why I've made a second (albeit small) payment just recently.. It's one of the ONLY (ad based) games I have EVER paid real money on! I haven't quite "finished" the game 100%, but I can't progress too much further at this stage, so, the money is really about Supporting The Developers! I have NO idea how much money they've made from Ad revenue, and furthermore, I don't know how many ads I've watched, but I could guess I've watched over 10,000 ads so far in this game.. They might do without an extra payment, but I value education, for myself and others, so... 💲💲💲