I was playing this android kid game with my niece when an
ad popped out. I quickly told her to close it but she was already tapping on
the close ad button. She has seen this before.
These days, the lifeblood of app developers seem to be drawn
from allowing advertisements from another party. We gamers are told to watch
ads to gain some gems or to rush the production of this part of the castle, or
the training of this soldier or even to open a treasure. Who wouldn’t? It’s
almost free and there is nothing to lose but a few seconds of doing nothing.
Sounds harmless enough as you could always just turn away
from the phone during these seconds. It’s what everybody else is doing; we don’t
really watch the ads.
But if skipping it and turning away from it is so easy, then why
do advertisers insist on this method and why even on a kids game?
