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| The Free-to-play Android games ads are annoying. But not for what you'd expect. by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/13/2022, 10:59pm PDT | ||||
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| As the title says, I find the ads that free-to-plat games annoying, but it's not the ads themselves but the way they are shown. I mean, I understand someone has to pay for it, and if it isn't me, it has to be an advertiser. I don't really mind too much, some games I've enjoyed playing I only found because of an ad.
It's the way the ads too often play that bugs me. There are four things I don't like. 1. Ads where you can't silence them. Maybe, just maybe, I don't mind hearing your ad for your game. The first time. But not when your commercial has been in rotation so many times I've seen it a hundred thousand times. If I can't silence your ad without it tripping over to the installation page on Google Play, I'm going to be irritated. One game's constant non-mutable blaring add irritated me so much, I installed the game, didn't play it, then gave it a one-star review, telling people to avoid it, and why. Then I uninstalled it, never having played it. Moral of the story: don't piss me off. 2. Brain-dead moronic examples of gameplay. Showing someone playing the game in an obviously wrong fashion. One of many examples: they'll show a fighting game where you try to attack opponents where it shows you, and your hit points. Then, it shows a bunch of opponents and theirs. You have to have more hit points than the opponent you pick, or your character will lose. And they always pick toe one too strong and get their ass kicked. Or that "I've played this game 3,333 times and I cab't get past level 22." If it's taken over 3,000 tries - a claim I find dubious - figuring 10 minutes per game, that's 30,000 miutes. 500 hours. That's ten hours a day, 7 days a week, for two months. Jesus, fella, get a life! 3. Impossibly perfect game results/ No Tetris clone ever gives you the exact right piece at every single play. 4. Bait and switch gameplay. The ad shows a color water sort where there are 50 vials on screen and two empties. I'm on the 80th consecutive puzzle I've correctly solved, and the largest grouping is 9 vials plus two empties. It shows a three-dimensional cube where you're supposed to select three matches, and you have like 8 tries. Dozens of levels later, I've yet to see anything but a flat board puzzle, no cube. 6. Too many duplicate games. Speaking of color water sort, do there have to be 60 different ones, all more-or-less identical? I was, however, amazed by one where the opening is on the bottom, pouring into the top. That one is very different from the typical move items out of the top style games, and quite challenging. After a while, the games all start to look alike. Or another game: collect resources with a machine, pick up a huge load, take it to the processing center, then buy upgrades. How many more mow grass/collect grain/pick up resource games do we have to see? Sometimes they'll have something else, like collecting papers from a printer then moving them to a book binder/loading dock. Or move the binders to the shipping department, collecting cash you can use to buy an upgrade. Grinding games. There are probably other things, but these are the ones I noticed. |
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The Free-to-play Android games ads are annoying. But not for what you'd expect. by 09/13/2022, 10:59pm PDT  By the way, Paul, 'four items' are not counted 1,2,3,4,5,6 NT by 09/14/2022, 8:18pm PDT Aykchually, he didnt incluse a '5' NT by 09/15/2022, 2:55pm PDT Good point NT by 09/15/2022, 7:35pm PDT |
