#7

Company looking to diversify?

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#8

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

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#9

Your avatar really helps with posts like this, I always get a laugh out of it

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#10

What adverts are everyone getting on YouTube these days? I’m still getting 30-day free trials for Audible shouted at me (probably been offered those about 4,000 times over the last couple of years), and Trading 212 is the other current big one. Not sure what Trading 212 is, or if it’s better than the first 211.

#11

Going back to this, like, how do you arrive at the conclusion that a shitty cartoon of what looks like a shitty game is in any way appealing. Sometimes I see those display ads with a busty woman in armour and a strap line like “The number one strategy game you have to play” and I know it’s bollocks but at least there’s a promise of boobs

#12

The FFVII remake and online voucher plugins.

#13

All mobile games are bullshit tbh

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#14

Think my VPN blocks them :nail_care:

#15

I feel like as soon as you click them your device will shatter into a bazillion pieces. The one on instagram with swapping the coloured ropes looks addictive as fuck though.

#16

I remember playing Clash of Clans once and it was awful

#17

really glad someone else admitted this before i did.

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#18

It must be similar to the nonsense spam emails.
Filters out people who definitely won’t fall for the scam.

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#19

I’ve thought a lot about making this thread

I figured maybe because I got rid of all the ad preference tracking stuff on that website, on Google too, etc, that I just get targeted with random stuff, but I have no idea anymore.

I’m pretty insulted if they think I’m going to play their trash games, tho.

like the mob one with the level 1 mob person being humiliated for being a lowly nothing man compared to the level 50 bosses, or the ones with waves of attackers being killed by automated weaponry.

are they real? there’s no way they’re like that.

#20

I get those, the mafia and wave defence mobile games plus endless fucking TikTok ads (a guy called Shem in drag as his mother, one about makeovers which very briefly looks like porn as it starts, a couple of twats actually filming their dinner), I think its because targeted ads are turned off but I’d happily pay a lump sum now to someone to never have TikTok advertised to me ever again.

#21

I have a theory that since that episode was created, those games will have been genuinely created now. If the demand for them is so real that journalists will report on them, then it was more likely a matter of time taken to create them. I have nothing to back this up though, it’s not like I’m gonna download one.

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#22

This or Clash Royale or one of those is meant to be surprisingly deep and skill-intensive in the end game. Has a meta game like a penoid card game and everything.

I’m never going to play it, obviously.

#23

I get constant tiktok adds

Think China must really wanna pwn me

#25

It’s worth about half of all annual games revenue, it’s a huge market. I think the target demographic is people who aren’t basement dwellers like us who are perfectly happy to spend an entire weekend playing a game that’s a thinly veiled spreadsheet, i.e. normal, balanced people.

#26

I can understand Candy Crush and stuff, basically Tetris, and years back people joked about some farm game on Facebook but Stardew Valley gets rave reviews.

It’s the fake games that baffle me.

#27

it’s just pay money to unlock stuff faster and win basically