Homescapes and Gardenscapes ads banned as misleading
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That said, I hate these ads. They're annoying and not representative of the game that you'll be playing in the slightest. I'm glad they're banned (in the UK, at least... maybe it'll make it across the pond eventually).
For months it was BMW, who I wasn't going to buy a car from anyway, and then it was these games which I now passionately hate.
They're either bots, or paid.
The adnetworks need to be held responsible for running scams when there is no due diligence what so ever. There is add for a fake Super Mario game running too.
https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/plr-worldwide-sales-ltd-g20-1...
If they use candy crush gameplay and tactics, I suspect the latter.
A player who ritualistically spends $10,000+ a month on your game is not that out of the ordinary (at a certain scale).
How much money does it take to create and maintain one of these apps? I wonder if it would represent a good ROI for a non profit to create an app like this as a fundraising expense. Then all in app purchase clicks would at least go to a good cause instead of just purchasing yet another Lamborghini, expensive house, etc.
The game in the adverts isn’t complex enough to justify it not being the core mechanic of the actual product (unlike pre-rendered cinematic clips); and if it’s good enough to be a hook, it should be the core mechanic, and vice versa.
And it must work extremely well since there are clones of it.
Edit: To make game out of that would be hard enough since its custom animation make to look like game. Plus the make money on repetitive game-play, puzzles would not keep players hooked and paying to skip the grind.
I mean yes, in the same way that drugs work.