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I haven't played this one... but saturation-level advertising in ad-supported games might have played into the loop here. I play Endless Frontier, which is another related game that has (optional) "view an ad for a reward" mechanics, and said ad is almost always for Idle Heroes.

Insofar as Endless Frontier is pretty good about not forcing you to spend money, I've resisted trying another game which looks far more like whale-bait.

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Same. There came a point where I was so oversaturated with the ads that I told myself I'd refuse to play it out of spite.

I've also been playing Endless Frontier.. It's one of the least pay to win games I've ever played.. You get rewards of in game currency every day and other super rare stuff for free, it makes no sense to buy anything imo

It does makes a lot of sense to spend one dollar, because that gets you the VIP status that doubles a lot of those rewards. Makes the whole thing even more crazily-generous.

I actually went and bought one of the packs (with a permanent spirit-highlands upgrade, so not one-off currency) recently, just because I figured I'd been playing for basically-free for so long that I might as well contribute a bit more.

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