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Update - September 1st - Movie time! - Questions and Feedback

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  • I do not watch ads anymore

    this format is awful, it was better when you had a choice of 4 items to select from.  At least you knew you were not going to get something you really do not want.  Also amount of gold you receive has dropped.  Minimum gold I use to get was 30 now if u r LUCKY enough to get gold it could be 15.

    Bring back choice of 4 and the amounts that use to be.
  • Uncle John (GB1)Uncle John (GB1) GB1 Posts: 11,004
    Good choice Byron. 
    The sooner we all stop watching ads, the sooner GGS will up the payouts!
  • adoptapet (US1)adoptapet (US1) Posts: 1,760
    edited 07.11.2015
    Ah, but I cannot resist seeing what idiocy they have tried lately. 

    Today's:

    I x'd it out several times, but it insisted on returning.  OK, I replied NO and got a 2 minute video about sports drinks, roflmbo.  After a minute or so (remember we are to watch Short videos?) I went to another tab. When I went back, I got thisSo I let it play the entire 2 minutes and got no reward (shame on me for not watching a 2 minute video that definitely did NOT apply to me)

    The "fun" continues.

    The remaining videos were all repeats of a History channel video about the Oak Island show.

    So it goes....
  • LOL - if you watch the network traffic, you can see lots of numbers being sent and requests for numbers coming in. It's the ad site making sure your watching the video from start to finish.

    I turned them off completely now, no temptation to watch them, just an empty building slot :)

    What I have found is that the ads load a hell of a lot of rubbish even before the little screen appears, tracking data, javascript, other stuff.
    But when you block the ads completely, it doesn't load all that rubbish anymore.
    (and I don't get a nag screen telling me to turn off adblocker)
    Betting they will change that and detect ad blocker ingame, prevent you from playing if you use adblocker, sounds like something this company would do.

  • Baldera (SKN1)Baldera (SKN1) SKN1 Posts: 192
    I have as well problems with the commercials -  I tried everything - empty cache andcookis , empty adobe , changed from crome to firefox and back -  restarted several times - nothing worked - the cinema came on , I can choose to start an comercial but it never starts over the whole day 

    yes I am frustratet 
  • jess_d (US1)jess_d (US1) US1 Posts: 3,515
    edited 10.11.2015

    I'm having problems with the super sonic ads as always. They rarely play and just now I tried to play one and a security alert popped up on my screen. It wouldn't let me make a screen shot of the warning. Where it says "Do you want to proceed" I clicked no, then I got the screen saying something went wrong and my game completely froze. I had to refresh to get back into the game.

    Edit to add: It happened again. This time I was able to make a screenshot after clicking "View Certificate".

    Edit #2: I was unable to play any super sonic ads at all. The last video was from aol.on. It was a 5 minute ad that cut out at 2 seconds. I got 1 surprise box (no rewards for the messed up super sonic ads) and my building slot returned to normal. The weird thing is that the audio for the ad kept playing for 3 minutes until I refreshed the page.



    Post edited by jess_d (US1) on
  • After 2.5 months of feeling left out and complaining about the unfairness of not getting the videos, I no longer want them. The reason: prizes were quite good for 2 months and now they are trivial  and it appears that the problems with the videos are worse. I missed out, but am not interested in what is being currently offered,.
  • I am now in a love/hate relationship with the videos. THEY ARE COMPLETELY AWFUL NOW, but occasionally, I get some gold. Who in their right mind at GGS thought this was improvement (I take that partly back, no more bugs, whoop-de-do). I don't like that I have to watch all three minutes of an ad and can't switch to something else because it will pause. Just so you know, I used to leave the sound on while I was doing the something else and at least heard the ad. And because I am forced to have it on the screen, the following things happen, 1) it gets muted 2) I turn off the screen 3) I play on my tablet until the horror ends.

    I understand I am benefitting from the ad but 30 gold every other day, just is not worth it to me most of the time.

  • Lesley52 (GB1)Lesley52 (GB1) Posts: 1,590
    Well todays gifts from gift boxes $7000 and 20 chicken food Yes I know its "free" prob could make more chicken food and earn more $s by not watching videos lol Promoting TV which I think costs £2000+ never dare have that in flat even if I could afford it B)
  • Uncle John (GB1)Uncle John (GB1) GB1 Posts: 11,004
    I've just stopped watching them Lesley52.
    I reckon if we all stop, GGS will have to improve the rewards 
  • "Error setting up player. Invalid license key"

    this is all I see each time I try to play an ad now...this is the third day.

  • CM NafaruCM Nafaru Posts: 1,325
    Both "invalid license key" and outdated certificate have been passed on.

    Thanks for your reports, we'll look into both of these issues!
  •  I don't like that I have to watch all three minutes of an ad and can't switch to something else because it will pause. 

    Well...They pays you princely (? :wink: )   to see their ads, so is it any wonder that they also expect you to actually see the ads?
    - If you pay for an item or service, you expect probably also getting what you paid for? 
  •  I don't like that I have to watch all three minutes of an ad and can't switch to something else because it will pause. 

    Well...They pays you princely (? :wink: )   to see their ads, so is it any wonder that they also expect you to actually see the ads?
    - If you pay for an item or service, you expect probably also getting what you paid for? 
    I do feel sorry or the companies paying for their ads to work properly, but GGS promised short ads viewed directly.
  • Are other's having trouble pulling up the video's to view?  Most of the time I can view 1 out of 5 tries whereas the other 4 doesn't display.  Is this just me or are other's effected as well?
  • I have tried once again a few minutes ago to watch a video to no avail! I get the black screen with the white click here arrow then a message " sorry something has gone wrong, please try again"-- tried 5 times and got the same thing.
    I should have known better but figured it had been a while since I tried soooooo gullible me did try again!
    Well I am totally done with trying to watch these videos.....GGS should figure out where the errors are,  or maybe look into these other game sites that offer videos and NO PROBLEMS with viewing them for the players, or just call it a day and scrap the whole concept!!  Just my two cents worth!!

  • Data King (US1)Data King (US1) US1 Posts: 7,994
    I have the option of being able to view the videos aka ads since they where introduced. There are some that play and others that don't as well as the rewards. Rewards do not match length of the ad when they do play and pay. With most "Paid To Click" sites, the longer the ad the better the reward. This does not seem to be the case here with ggs.
     If I am going to watch an ad, I would like to know how long the ad is and how much of reward for watching it. Then be able to choose to watch it or not and be able to select a different one.
  • Others are having the same issues. Its all in the Sept 1rst discussion pages.
  • :) Thank you, Nafaru!  Will keep trying...
  • Sheriziya (NL1)Sheriziya (NL1) Posts: 131
    edited 15.11.2015
    I've got a video that simply won't load properly:



    I can click on the video all I want, but nothing happens. The only option that remains is clicking the gray cross on the top right and get NO reward. When I close the browser, clear cache, etc nothing happens either....

    ETA: just today (November 15th), I got two new "wonderful" video ads:


    And:


    With the second picture, I had nothing left to do but click the gray button. With the third (and latest) image, I've been waiting for five minutes. Finally it appears in the normal window and now the video won't load. I get the background image, but not the video itself. I've done everything I'm supposed to do (clear flash local storage, clear browser cache, etc, etc), but nothing helps.

    And of course I didn't get any rewards. This is starting to get very frustrating!
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  • I recently found out about the option to watch vids and earn prizes, BUT, I don't have any icon or anything showing on my farm that gives me that option. I've looked every where that I can think and see. Please help/advise. Thanks !!
  • Kamilcom (GB1)Kamilcom (GB1) Posts: 1,499
    edited 16.11.2015
    Just to repeat myself a bit: How long will the movie feature be in baby stage with less then poor beta quality performance? The poor quality beats it's purpose. I'm less and less inclined to click that TV screen to get another bugged movie, in the hope of poor rubishy reward like a few dollars.

    Either make it work, or at least remove it from blocking upgrade screen constantly if you don't know how to do the job properly.

    In general, when wlll you finally assign a capable project manager to this potentially excellent game who will have managerial skills to fix all the game and forums bugs. As it is, it's hard to tell if the game brings more enjoyment or more irritation. I'm certainly playing much less then before the Grand Messup due to all these issues. I'm even reluctant to keep giving feedback as the said manager messed up so many things in such a short time that it's hard to keep track of all the issues in game and on forums. Kick him out and hire a cleaning crew to get rid of all that mess. :)

    Give me a reason for positive feedback. I don't like commng with criticism most of the time, but if that's what you deserve for your performance ........... what can I do? Well, yes, I know. Not comment and not play, that's what I can do. :)
  • I used to be ok with the ads when I got to pick what I wanted. I didn't even really mind that a few of them didn't always work. Now I just get a "surprise" box with tat in it that isn't worth my time, but after what happened tonight I have decided NEVER to watch them again - I got an advert just showing a picture of a vacuum cleaner picking up crumbs, no video playing, nothing happening and no "x" to close it or ">" to start it, so I clicked on the picture to see if that would start the video and without warning it opened a new tab and took me to another website - THIS IS NOT SAFE GGS!!!
  • The thing that 'enables' the vids is 'jsd.supersonicads.com/inlineDelivery/delivery.min.gz.js'
    Either use an ad blocker or a script blocker to disable the ads and get the building slot back.
    Well, until they fix it and give better rewards, christmas 2029.
  • Kamilcom (GB1)Kamilcom (GB1) Posts: 1,499
    The thing that 'enables' the vids is 'jsd.supersonicads.com/inlineDelivery/delivery.min.gz.js'
    Either use an ad blocker or a script blocker to disable the ads and get the building slot back.
    Well, until they fix it and give better rewards, christmas 2029.
    That's nice final solution of things. Well first solution for some, understandably. I'll give it some chance yet. :) Ignoring it for a few days, I tried again today.

    • 2 vids played allright, gave reward.
    • 1 vid was not video at all, just a picture taking me to another site. Closed it right away - not interested - but got reward anyway.
    • 2 times famous black screen vid never playing, always error, of course no reward.
    • After that blank screen, although it says "video available". Tried several times, even let it wait longer just in case something was loading on the background ........... nothing.
    • Rewards - small amount of dolars twice, a few certificates once. No gold. = wasted effort.
    By far substandard performance GGS. Not up to the promised parameters, and not up to the expected quality. Didn't we say it right, that displayed enthusiasm of CMs before this fiasco was started, claiming how we'll love this feature, was just an empty talk? Or will you, somehow, finally, after months, get it working right and rewarding worthwhile prices? :) I would like it, if it worked, and if it rewarded reasonable amount of gold.
  • The thing that 'enables' the vids is 'jsd.supersonicads.com/inlineDelivery/delivery.min.gz.js'
    Either use an ad blocker or a script blocker to disable the ads and get the building slot back.
    Well, until they fix it and give better rewards, christmas 2029.
    In my eyes, the best thing in your tip is that, when we blocking for  'jsd.supersonicads.com/inlineDelivery/delivery.min.gz.js' we are closing a security hole as big as a moon crater!

    Explanation:
    If supersonicads being hacked, the hacker can change this javascript so it instead sending information to supersonic, sending information to the hacker - and off course the hacker not only want relative harmless information about us... If a hacker hack supersonic, he/she of course will change that javescript so it steal information from us like usernames, password and so on. 
    - That have happen before for some websites they have been hacked, so they spread out trojan horses and worms to millions of users, so why should that not could happend again?

    A good advice to you GGS: Don't use 3'rd party scripts! - When you use scripts, only use scripts youself have created and that being load from your own servers!
    When you use 3'rd party scripts in this way you are doing here, you more than double the risk for hacking attacks.
    Explanation:
    If a hacker hack bigfarm, let say he hit 10.000 users
    If he instead hack supersonic who I'm sure have lots more 'costumers' because also other webgames use supersonic as a 3'rd party advertising partner, the hacker maybe can hit 100.000 users.
    - Why should a hacker only try to hit 10.000 users, if he instead by the same job can hit 100.000 users?

     get it working right and rewarding worthwhile prices? :) I would like it, if it worked, and if it rewarded reasonable amount of gold. 
    I do not believe you must expect that the rewards will be better than they are now.
    - If the rewards continued to be as good as they have been in the first two months, players will of course no longer buy as much gold as they did before we got the videos.

    It is clear to me that GGS in the first 2 months have 'sold' these videos at a very favorable offer price (very good rewards) to attract customers to the videos.
    It is a very well known business method in Denmark called introductory price.
    When a suitable number of customers have been captured, the price is raised to a normal price range (in this case, it rewards has been lowered to a level which does not threaten the normal GGS gold sales significantly.)

    And I must congratulate GGS with the action succeeded (perhaps even beyond expectations?)
    customers not only swallowed the bait, but also both hook lacing and fishing rod, and many are queuing up and shout that they also want the videos!

    Now GGS have a fine statistics they can show their 3'rd party advertising partners, showing that at least 90% of Bigfarms players see these videos (or want the opportunity to watch the videos)
    At the same time GGS can use the same statistics to show critics like me when I say that the videos are a bad idea.
  • Uncle John (GB1)Uncle John (GB1) GB1 Posts: 11,004
    The thing that 'enables' the vids is 'jsd.supersonicads.com/inlineDelivery/delivery.min.gz.js'
    Either use an ad blocker or a script blocker to disable the ads and get the building slot back.
    Well, until they fix it and give better rewards, christmas 2029.
    YEAH!!!!!!!! I got my building slot back :D     (stopped watching ads days ago)

    mrpotatohead (GB1) you is ACE!!!   B)
  • Solmar (US1)Solmar (US1) Posts: 72
    edited 20.11.2015
    The videos are not giving me rewards at all anymore - it made me watch 5 videos and didn't give me any surprise box to collect, and then it got stuck at the end of a video...to make matter worse, some of the videos (dinosaur movie and car ad, for example) play multiple times in a row and give me not even one reward.
  • I broke my word - I said I wouldn't watch again but waiting for stuff to grow & watching TV at the same time - I clicked on the "watch video" - well "why not - as long as I'm careful?" I thought. Watched about 3 vids, absently minded clicking them (making sure I wasn't being sent to a 3rd party site though!) and it was only after the third one that I realised that it was only asking me to view another one but not asking me to collect the prize. I've now watched about 5 minutes of ads and got zero rewards. Sorry, but now they can seriously stuff the ads where the sun don't shine.
  • Kamilcom (GB1)Kamilcom (GB1) Posts: 1,499

    I do not believe you must expect that the rewards will be better than they are now.
    - If the rewards continued to be as good as they have been in the first two months, players will of course no longer buy as much gold as they did before we got the videos.
    It's probably quite simple math:

    Bugged feature + rubbish reward = low usage = low or no money for Greedy Game Studio from it. Advertisers are not stupid. They'll go for measurable results, not for inflated talk.
    As a ripple effect by this cheat they irritate even more players, some of which will respond by leaving the game or refusing to buy any more gold.
    Can't see how GGS can make any serious proffit from this type of cheat, unless .............. ehm ....... can't really voice this :):):) .

    Apart from that it is just a good custom to reward exclusive currency for a marketing feature of this kind.

    On the other hand, maybe they don't care at all. A lot of what they do seems chaotic, short sighted and contraproductive. At least from this side of the river. They seem to have no problems in creating potentially good feature and then completelly or partially kill it by silly usage and conditions. Well, can't tell anythng for sure how it actually works or doesn't work for them unless I see their data. :) Vocal minority does not necessarily represent the silent majority. :) At the end of the day it's none of my business what others do. But for me it is a simple choice: Bye bye movies ....... :)  :)
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