Mobile Game Advertisements

Mobile Game Advertisements are ads that pop up everywhere during app games, most notably on free-to-play ads.

Examples

• Match 3 Minigames: rely on players attempting to clear minigames, but end up losing because of something stupid. This results in failing a minigame of any sort.
• Puzzle Strategy games: players only get incorrect answers by not matching the element of any kind, resulting in people in the game getting misfortune.
• ASMR games: games that have grotesque and gross-out appearances, but when it progress, it becomes clean. However, some games can end up failing as a result.
• Simulation games similar to match 3 minigames, but players slowly activate something helpful, for instance, when players are almost finished completing the game, they activate something bad, resulting in a loss.
• Story games: similar to simulation games, but with choices to succeed the game, but ends up failing as a result.
• Interactive/ Playable Ads: This ad is playable (for real), but some with bizarre and buggy physics and rubbish graphics (so as not to overload your phone/tablet), terrible lags (only weak phones).
• Meme Ads: Gameplay ads with memes in them.

Why They 💩-ed

1. First and foremost, they are annoying to pop up while players have internet to play free-to-play games. Even after clearing the level or during gameplay.
2. Most ads can be mean-spirited, gross-out, torturous, or vice versa. These are evident when players use a wrong answer or mess up the player, resulting in failures.
3. Many of the ads don't even have real gameplay, they just have poorly done CGI/Blender/Adobe.
4. Speaking of gross-out humor, there are TONS of poop, pee, and vomit scenes appearing here and there without let up, even though gameplays do not provide those.
5. Many of the ads are inappropriate for children, like racism, and even teenagers, like women having big breasts and buttocks and "blobley".
6. They provide false advertising since most ads do not reflect those in gameplays, making them pointless.
7. Most of the ads make no sense, like when a person starts off with a better life, they end up getting poor and letting the player start fixing their lives, but failing.
8. They have overused stock sound effects, such as a woman screaming, and a man or woman shouting "WHAT?!". These can be annoying and painful to hear.
9. Bad lip-syncing, even on those with transcripts in speech bubbles.
10. Certain ads (depending on device) are capable of crashing/freezing the app and can even make the app close itself!, This is problematic as you may lose certain recent game data, some are not even able to display ads and only have Black Screen of Death (BSoD) in the app.
11. This has only ruined the reputation of mobile games, making people think that mobile games are just shovelware, just the mobile games that were originally released other platforms and AAA games, like Genshin Impact, two Honkai games, the GTA trilogy, Netflix Games (3D only), Minecraft (that's obvious), Roblox (despite the terrible reputation of the company and the game itself, there are many amazing games) and Sponge Bob: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated are safe from this.
12. Certain ads for hyper casual games have meme captions like "If you win, you (do something)". One of the ads even disrespected Etika!

Redeeming Qualities

1. They are considered "so bad, it's good" because of their qualities.
2. Some ads can show good endings when the players are good enough, but still.

Comments

Loading comments...