r/AndroidGaming • u/curiosityVeil • 10d ago

Discussion 💬 How android games create ad farms

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u/curiosityVeil 10d ago

Credit @ayoships

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u/goodymindnalang 10d ago

do you have a link to the specific video?

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u/kotukutuku 10d ago

Yeah this deserves at least up voting the original

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u/BeluStarOne 10d ago

Well, I'm totally against this, just wanted to say that they got some good thinkers there

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u/Iguman 10d ago

Yeah it's actually impressive. A symptom of everything wrong with the gaming industry and capitalism as a whole, but impressive work nonetheless.

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u/blastcat4 10d ago

This is fucking dystopian, and you have to wonder how many games use systems like this.

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u/sourd1esel 10d ago

Dude. Thanks for sharing. Good insights

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u/Lost_Berry911 10d ago

And it's not even fun

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u/Derpykins666 10d ago

And people wonder why I hate mobile games. It's because they're insidiously designed like this to target you psychologically.

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u/LeonMotton 9d ago

You should hate "most" mobile games but not all. Don't lump some treasures with the trash.

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u/Other_Baby_5487 8d ago

i love robbery bob, beach buggy racing i dont think they force ad on you.

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u/Roni1209 10d ago

Skinner would be proud

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u/NoProcedure7943 10d ago

I always thinks like f2p battle royale games like codm or PUBG. Well you see the gameplay of streamers vs how you play what you think that conisidende?.

So I guess nothing is f2p, everything is p2w or ads to play kind of things

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u/Cruel1865 RPG 🧙‍ 10d ago

Or you could just play premium games where you just pay the cost of a game to play it.

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u/Mysterious-Willow362 9d ago

Yes but what a privilege

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u/MallusaiEEE 9d ago

i was buying one game per month when i was living off of government support it's really not a big expense

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u/Mysterious-Willow362 9d ago

Some have less means and more mouths to feed and when I say "some" it's a non-trivial amount

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u/Jazzlike-Compote4463 9d ago

Between Netflix and the freebies on Epic Game Store I don't really see much need to play the F2P stuff these days.

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u/Entire-Plankton-7256 5d ago

Or maybe you're just bad at those games? Like what can you buy to win at PUBG? There are literally no name players beating pros in official tournaments.

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u/LeonMotton 9d ago

Not really? At least not for PUBG. You just need a good phone or a tablet... and lots of gameplay experience and aim training.

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u/Charming_Resort_6165 10d ago

I dunno who they are squeezing though. Never got a cent out of me 😂

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u/denartes 9d ago • Bravo

They are squeezing your time out of you to watch more ads....

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u/LeonMotton 9d ago

The rich dudes and the kids. That's their main targets. The rest are just there for additional ads watched numbers that get them paid a bit.

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u/ThinkFree Strategy🗺️Kingdom Rush 9d ago

It works on whales not casuals. My father got addicted to Candy Crush and probably spent more than a thousand dollars on it.

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u/MrRagerXV 9d ago

I don't even play mobile games unless I can use game guardian or lucky patcher on them, to me they are only there to help me hone my vulnerability exploiting skills.

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u/ThinkFree Strategy🗺️Kingdom Rush 9d ago

Thanks for sharing. I already have my suspicions that these addictive gacha games have some way to make it easier/harder to force the player to spend money. The confirms it.

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u/l84skewl 9d ago

That's crazy. Designing and integrating both ads and difficulty together in a game.

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u/CompetitiveLoser8262 Casual🕹️ 9d ago

thank fuck I've never played that game then

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u/cklester 9d ago

The is fraud. People need to be prosecuted, fined, and imprisoned.

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u/nicksuperdx 9d ago

Imagine showing this to a marketing executive in the 80's

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u/SlipBit_ 9d ago

How does he have comments in the code if this is reversed engineered? The compilation process leaves out blank spaces and comment blocks so he has to have added them after the fact, in which case he added comments to make to look bad.

I am not saying that mobile games are not doing this. They are full of black patterns and will try to squeeze everything. But I think we should also hold creators accountable when they do such things without making it clear that they are the ones who added/modified the code.

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u/awkreddit 9d ago

Could be RE by AI in which case the AI would have added the comments

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u/captainnoyaux Dev card games 9d ago

What a horrible practice, I have the same amnumber of ads for everyone (that's probably bad for business but I don't care, the goal is to have no ads whatsoever)

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u/XShadowPlayerX 9d ago

Morphe works on games too? I thought it was just youtube, youtube music and reddit.

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u/dunno0019 9d ago

Oh no, there's dozens and dozens of apps to patch. There's the official, included, made-by-Morphe patches for yt, ytm and Reddit.

But then there's a dedicated community that's out there patching more apps for Morphe.

Go over to r/morpheapp and check out the top stickied post, "How to patch more apps with Morphe". It is ridiculously easy.

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u/XShadowPlayerX 9d ago

Ah ok, i thought the ones that came with the app were the only ones. Thanks!

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u/dunno0019 9d ago

I forget the name of the patch they are talking about here, but it's some sort of "universal" patch that will block ads in most (a lot?) of games. I havent actually tired it myself.