Mobile Gaming Ads Are Effed Up

Play mobile games on airplane mode. No internet, no adds.

Last war. They're really good at most of this

Hard truth
I saw many games with such strategy including Iconic Shadow fight 2 normal editions and switched to Shadow fight 2 SE for no ad experience version
Almost all the Mobile games are poisoned with Ads and become more addictive and manipulative
That's a reason I have un-installed many ad-ware games in my devices
Before Ads were less or avoidable but today's period ads are unskippable or unavoidable

I just don't get it (and will never do) how endlessly dumb one must be to actual get affected, play (and pay) for this bullshit...

Just me or 6:58 having some ai artifacts?

There should be mandatory labeling of games that are offline and don't rely on 'management slop' and consumable power-ups.

The moment an ad pops up I close the game or app, I don’t have the time or care for that bullshit.

Mecha chameleon started as a shitty mobile ads. Until someone saw the potential of it being played on steam

The ads of Gossip Harbor make me don't want anything to do with them. Sad wife/mother get cheated on by her ex-husband and got kicked out and live in a ruined house that we need to fix? Yeah, that's a guilt trip and I hate it

Project Makeover is probably that one game that I find actually better than its ad

I'm getting AI slop mobile game ads while watching this video. XD

Back in like, 2012-2013 I think I had an LG Envy and it had a complete mobile remake of the fist BioShock. The ggraphics were about as good as an early PS1 game (if that) and you had to download the game in bite sized "chapters." So, you'd walk through a couple rooms and hallways, defeat some baddies, and when you got to a certain door or checkpoint, you'd have to download the next chapter and overright the previous. It was, like $5.99 or something for the game.

I LOVED it. I didn't have a playstation or xbox at the time, just Nintendo Products. I thought, "This is amazing, full-scale games right on my phone for such a cheap price. The benefits of playing a game on the go in bite sized chunks was amazing and the downgrade in graphics or lack of features was worth the lowered price. I had SUCH high hopes for mobile games.

Then, all of a sudden freemium style games started coming out, and all these cheap games started coming out. Companies learned that a click and wait game with pay to play, pay to win games could bring in a handful of whales who spend hundred or thousands of dollars in game were FAR more profitable then releasing a mobile game for a couple of bucks that play like a real game.

Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there. Mobile gaming COULD have been a great space for indie developers to release full retro-style games or full games that were short and exciting but not up to console quality. But, because people decided paying for games on a phone just wasn't worth it, no matter how good they are, and the regular and hardcore gaming public started embracing indie and retro games on marketplaces like steam or directly on consoles it kind of sealed the deal for good games on mobile phones.

It sucks too, because now that phones are basically small computers we could get amazing games on the play store. And, to be fair their are some great remasters or straight up redistribution of older games on mobile and some great freemium games out there, the majority is just shovelware.

The one upside, is that because phones have gotten so good, you can play full, console-quality games on mobile now through things like GamePass Ultimate, Amazon Luna, Steam Link, etc. But, the ACTUAL app stores are just endless landfills of trash with a few good gems few and far between.

I wish Nintendo would have stuck with making games for mobile because the few games the released after they announced they were moving into the market were actually fairly decent. Like Super Mario Run, while nothing more than a basic endless runner, was actually kinda fun. And, of course, Pokemon Go took over the world for a whole summer. Mario Kart mobile was decent. And, there were a few more before they just kinda stopped.

Real life enclave

Psychology is great at attracting consumers, but marginal propensity to consume and save causes players to Uninstall the game in less than 24 hours. The psvhologists are hoping the part of the brain that feeds obsession will override MPS and return utils(abstract measurement of happiness). Obsessed players are profitable but eventually they look for thrift. Thrift is as simple as a exploit that breaks the game.

Otherwise,
Rationalise a mobile game as console expense and game expenses. $500 console for 5 years and 4x$60 for $240 a year in New games. In that sense, developers don't need to feed <variable income> obsession. They do need to feeed new content and complete current content.

Mobile games are worse than casinos. At least casinos are up front about how they exploit people.

10:25 I've seen so many unskippable gossip harbor ads that they give me physical rage just seeing these

Whoa, I was unsubscribed from this channel when I clicked on this video.. yet I've been subbed to this channel for years

0:00 nope, its perfectly clear they're lying on purpose. They USED to be accurate

It's pathetic that there's no good game on mobile anymore. The early gameloft games were amazing. Now they ask you to pay for things like extra inventory space, labelling storage boxes 🥴.

This channel use to be awesome. Now it is just sad and pathetic

Infographics show: Stops using AI for Voice again finally.

Also infographics show: Just uses AI for the animation instead

That's why I play on YouTube. No ads.

I always have 1 F2P game installed on my iPad. I play it regularly w/o ever putting any cash in at all, and earn Fetch Reward points for doing so. And as soon as I max out the available points, it gets deleted off my iPad forever.

App Store sucks there's nothing good on it, and if you are someone who spends money on a mobile game you are literally a special type of stupid😂

I never click on those games, and if the advertisers are dumb enough that they're paying for that, they're gonna blow millions. I play like Zenless and Skullgirls sometimes. Match 3 in 2026? You're kidding

Why, why can't I save de woman and the child freezing on a destroyed house??

All it did for me is that I don't try phone games anymore. I have a few I play from before their stupid ads started, but now, I just don't even try them.

Spending money I don’t have on Honkai Star Rail

1:25 was it really popularized by candy crush? Because Candy crush is a total rip-off of bejeweled which if there's people who just don't know what bejeweled is that's just sad because bejeweled was absolutely huge 20 years ago. Everybody knew what it was and even during the early 2010s be jeweled was so popular that there was even a board game about it despite Candy crush existing at the time. Candy crush really does not deserve to be the one that's compared because they ripped off bejeweled.

I guess Candy crush their marketing found a way to popularize it but it was bejeweled who did it long before them and who knows maybe there was somebody even before bejeweled that we don't know about, much like how most people don't know that angry birds is a blatant rip-off of crush the Castle

1:07 are you sure about that so many of the ads I see for games are of games I would just never play so are you sure it actually knows what I like? I don't think it actually does😂

So how you opened up this video is completely false about me. I am not some guinea pig because I never fall for those dumb ads of bad games. In fact on a lot of games you could play there's an option to actually tell it to stop showing you ads for that game. Even on YouTube there's an option to tell it to stop sending you that particular ad that keeps being shown to you. Was that option being available, you can easily being the guinea pig entirely by never seeing those same ads again. Yes they'll send new stupid ads again but you can just keep going with the don't send me this again option.

Or people will give up on mobile games completely and shift to other quick activities like microfiction.

I remember playing mobile strike almost a decade ago, and in the beginning it took so much time to build up your strength, there were so many tasks, etc. then they start selling packs that let you buy your way stronger, without having to do the timely tasks, (like autocomplete) then they start selling developers remodeled the entire game and gave it two separate sides of the game, which soon followed the same format as the original side, etc. it was easy to get upset that you spent so much time building your base and doing alliance battles, for someone to just start the game and be stronger than you cause they spent the money to have it all. I ended up not playing after that. (I had spent money as well, I should say, several hundreds of dollars, and would still end up weaker cause I didn’t spend enough) someone spending the time on the game would always end up weaker than someone you bought it.

Makes sense why I never got to save the homeless woman and her child from the biting cold winter storm. 😢

Those Kingshot ads are annoying af

Got tired of the BS of mobile games. Deleted all my games and I couldn't be happier.

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If a mobile game doesn't support offline mode, i uninstall it

All the damn clones of games like Last War Survival, Last Asylum, Evony, etc, all do the exact same game functions. It’s also completely misrepresented in every ad. I hate them all. I swear it’s just AI churning out cookie cutter games. Ridiculous. Then the ads inside make you jump through hoops to actually close the ad and back to the game.