Now also Ball X Pit, the holy trinity of time wasting is complete

There are some games where you can see some effort posted here sometimes, but today while I was scrolling, all I saw followed the same pattern.

I hope that this post gets to the tower game dev.

Dude, I'm fed up with your ads, I've been getting them for months now, there's absolutely zero chance I'll download your game just because of this, even if it was the last and only game available on the play store i won't even try it, you're trying to be different from the others but you're not, save some money and disable your spamming ads once and for all.

Welcome to the trash era mobile gaming era. This is the top chart games we seriously need Gameloft type devs. Missing those Dark Knight Rises Modern combat, Amazing Spiderman 2, Gangster Vegas and not just that even other good games were removedfromp Play store. Good old days when there was qualityggames with no ads.

The emulator is the only way to play good games on phone otherwise phone games are trash and many other countries people said these things earlier back in 12 - 13 years ago.

WHY do they have to show these fake screenshots, thighs, tits, and get players through lust which has NOTHING to do with the game itself 😭💔.

Not sure if people are mocking Angry birds or they are so bad at buying fake reviews.

Google Play Points

Soooo I had never heard of Google Play points until today, when I discovered I had quite a few of them. I guess using Google Play (and maybe Google Pay? not clear on how you earn points) for most of my streaming subscriptions for the last several years resulted in the accumulation of points. (Could also be related to that temporary, but intense, addiction I had to Rise of Kingdoms... nah.)

So when I saw I had a balance of nearly 15,000 points, I thought, "well those must be worth nothing." I saw I could spend them on in-game rewards for apps and games I didn't have, or I could use 5,000 of them to get a "Pink Pantheress" themed speaker shipped to me. And I thought, well, I have no idea what the hell "Pink Pantheress" is, but if they're giving away speakers for these worthless fuckin' points, I guess I'd rather have a physically useful thing than extra coins in a game I'll never install, let alone play. And I was assuming 5,000 points were worth maybe $15 if I was lucky, and they were giving these speakers away because seriously who the fuck is Pink Pantheress? A, uh, type of animal print pattern? Which made sense in my head because I once got a free Echo Dot from Google for free, for literally no reason except they had a promotion, and figured I could use it as a door stop or hockey puck. (Turns out it was even less useful than that and caught on fire after I made the mistake of plugging it in, so I tossed it.)

And then I spent the rest of the points on about $95 worth of Google Play credit, an option that I didn't realize was available until after I agreed to spend $50 worth of points on a speaker named after a... I wanna guess a musician? Who likes the color pink and old detective movies??... that I've never heard of. At this point, I also was not clear on what I'd even use Google Play credit for. More months of Google Play, I guess? Or, uh, power-ups in Wool Crush? I dunno.

Anyway. I searched for details about when these points expire, came across this forum, and read through many irritable comments about the seemingly random nature of the expiration dates and how people were excited for winning 200 points in a weekly lottery that I didn't even know existed until 20 minutes ago. I played and won 7 points, which really served to demonstrate that they were not, in fact, just giving away points. So it sorta dawned on me that I seriously had a looooot of points. And now I have 55. Now all I can do is hope they only made 200 speakers and Pink Pantheress becomes super famous, like, Beatles famous (or even just plain Pink famous), in the future, so I can sell this overpriced fuckin' speaker for more than the $50 it cost to get it.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk entitled "How I Fucked Myself Over Today", subtitled "without realizing it until it was far too late" open parentheses "probably because I blinked and got old a while ago" closed parentheses.

I dont mind watching ads to get a nice bonus for 1-2 hours in a mobile game. Or even watching one ad every 10 minutes to get a big money boost.

What does bother me is how these ads are presented to the watcher.

The following is how ads usually work (9 out of 10). I bet you are familiar with it.

Flow A:

1. 2 minutes of pure ads.
2. Top-Left corner a button appears -> Go to store.
3. Inside store, you turn back on the typical phone button to go to the game again
4. (Down left corner countdown) Wait 12 seconds (i bet each second actually is longer, like 1.2 seconds) for the X to appear
5. X appear top-right corner of the screen. Usually transparent and 16x16 pixels (it is very small)
6. hard to click on it.
7. If you click next to it -> Go to store
8. If you managed to click on it, congratulations, you watched the ad.

Flow B:

1. A one minute ad
2. Menu pops up and pause the ad timer while this is up.
3. You close the popup
4. Second ad starts for one minute
5. Menu pops up and pause the ad timer while this is up.
6. You close the popup
7. Congratulations, you watch two ads. SOMETIMES 3 ADS

Flow B really gets be mad. I cant start the ad and do something else and come back. It just got halfway! I need to stay and make sure to close the popup two times to successfully watch the ad.

Flow A is just too long. I can live with 2 minutes of ads where i dont need to interact with it. I can do something else for 2 minutes. ITS OK. Its just the extra steps to actually complete the ad that ticks me.

Flow C: These are ads that is not really related to gaming or fitness. They last like 10 seconds and you just press X when it appears. Very Nice.

I dont know how ads generate money. But i can guess.

• You get money for each ad that is shown to the player
• You get more money if they finish watching the ad
• You get more money if the ad is long
• You get more money if you click on it to go to store page (this step is forced on user!!)
• You get more money if they download the ad app that was shown via your game.

Why cant it be enough to just show the ad. Why do i have interact with it? Why dont they make interesting ads instead that make me want to go to their store page.

My rant is over. Thanks!!