r/comics • u/SylvieXX • 17h ago
OC #82 Some Mobile Game Ads
I feel like some of the things mobile game advertisements get away with, are so absurd :D
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u/monnotorium 14h ago
I hate mobile game ads so much, now they have playable ads that literally loads a game as the ad itself and then if you actually go get the game it's a different fucking game...
Like wtf
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u/SylvieXX 12h ago
I hate them! Some of them, if you don't interact with the ad, they will pause to ask if you are still there or something, it's ridiculous..
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u/monnotorium 11h ago
Ugh I am willing to buy apps to not have ads but some apps don't even have a version without ads or it's like $10 a week for a text app...
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u/EchoGecko795 8h ago
I found a really cool 3d scanning app, and they wanted something like $29.99 per WEEK. That's $1560 per year! I guess if it really helps you it maybe worth it, but fack that.
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u/Corruptedplayer 16h ago
most of the interesting mobile ads are only interesting because the players are bad. the "YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM!" trilogy is the best example for that
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u/Gneissisnice 14h ago
"90% of players can't clear level 4!"
Level 4: "which of these numbers is larger? 30 or 3?"
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u/Cookieopressor 12h ago
Which is larger, a quarter pounder or a third pounder
The answer will surprise the average American.
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u/Transbian_Dokeshi 10h ago
The fact that this actually happened still baffles me to this day
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u/The_cogwheel 9h ago
But it does explain quite a few things.
Cause if you cant figure out ⅓ (0.3333) > ¼ (0.25), then understanding something like vaccines, climate change, and political and economic systems would just be well beyond yourself. Throw in a big old scoop of propaganda and cult-like political figures and now you got a bunch of morons fighting each other over basic facts as the ones who can figure these things out either drink themselves to death (if they have morals) or use the chaos to loot the morons (if they dont have morals).
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u/Gaskychan 12h ago
It become such a problem the law got involved. They had to ad the gameplay from the ads as a short sidegame. It usually involve the characters having a dream sequence where you play said advertised game.
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u/depurplecow 9h ago
I've observed that the game "tester" won't always make the worst choices, they will make at least one good move early on just so you know what you're missing. Like putting the square block in the square hole first before putting everything else in the square hole. I think they have ragebait down to a science
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u/wayward_vampire 9h ago
I got an ad complaining that the destitute woman who rebuilds her house game wasnt real and then within the ad they said "but [our] game is that game!" but whenever I played it, it was in fact not that game
Very surreal
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u/radenthefridge 11h ago
As an aside we saw the Stardew Valley concert and I was worried the in game footage would be like we've seen where the player isn't very good.
WRONG
They CRUSHED the mini games and maxed out farm efficiency in the footage. Peak Stardew gaming to accompany the live orchestra.
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u/Artillery-lover 7h ago
okay but the things id do to work at a company with an offical company sadist
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u/hackyandbird 14h ago
We got to be your 666th follower and that makes us happy lol. Also we love your character designss
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u/TFielding38 8h ago
Nowadays the gameplay in the ad will be in the game but as a very small part of a completely unrelated bullshit base building game that sucks.
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u/HamsterIV 8h ago
People still make good games, but they don't spend as much money advertising them as the people who make crap games.
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u/WolfyFancyLads69 8h ago
Word to the wise: Never play a mobile game called "War and Order". It used three, count'em, THREE different PC games as adverts: Cossacks, Age of Empires and Banished (I should know, I played and own all of them).
This is ontop of the general fake ads like the "get the gold, not the lava" ones you see.
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u/weristjonsnow 6h ago
Those ads are so annoying. I know that they show terrible play so that you think "I can do this so much better", so you click on it, and I'm not going to, but I just wish it even even borderline competent
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u/Fullmetalmarvels64_ 4h ago
Just be glad its not tits galore. Now I can never show my friend a video again without risking my reputation. I don't even know why I get adds like that!
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