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Debate about the recently added advertisements
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That is why I HOPE that they can figure out how to make them NON-Intrusive. Otherwise, this will be a bigger problem than they forecasted. Oh, have no doubt, they expect to loose a certain percentage of non and small buyers. The expectation is that the Ad revenue will make up for the loss of the small buyers and that the percentage of non-buyers will be low enough to not impact the gameplay of the Big Buyers.
Never forget, the final decisions regarding MONEY are made in the board room. They are expected to reach the revenue targets established by Stillfront Group. GGS has to pay the owners who have to satisfy the shareholders.
The REAL bad news is Stillfront's stock has been taking a dive the last week. This isn't due to disgruntled GGE players. But, this will make them REAL reluctant to want to hear from GGS about removing that ad revenue.
For those wondering, 932 SEK = $107.23 USD = 90.60 Euros........
Sleep well.
I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
It says you can avoid adverts with a shop purchase...it then takes you to the shop screen : is it ONLY those specific ruby purchases that count? or do all gge transactions count - e.g. subscriptions?
I'd been considering a subscription purchase to say thanks to gge but had been put off completely by the implementation of adverts - seems this is the way they'd rather have F2P support them even though the game play stoppage is, at best frustrating and b) builds to irritation and dissatisfaction if you've left feeding starving pixels/ defense rearrangement a bit on the late side....
Not saying I'd now rush to make a subscription if they count....just if they don't it would really crystalize my medium term plans
Am still playing 6 years on ! - hi lvl 800 on new yrs eve (2017/18) !
Leading the Targaryens - PS interested in joining - PM any officer in Game :-)
PS in top200 on uk 1 never botted or used a VPN - that's why it took 5 yrs to get to leg 800
Am still playing 6 years on ! - hi lvl 800 on new yrs eve (2017/18) !
Leading the Targaryens - PS interested in joining - PM any officer in Game :-)
PS in top200 on uk 1 never botted or used a VPN - that's why it took 5 yrs to get to leg 800
Read your post and look how disrespectful you are! Comparing a dictator who killed millions of jews with ads! What is wrong with you? This is offensive to anyone, not the ads. Think about it. You see ads with people on a toilet, nobody controls the media. You know how ads work right? You control them! It's based on your search history, just delete your cookies. GGS probably only uses the engine for that. Most, like unity, have a build in ad function, so they can't change what ads are being showed.
If something is presented in another country then they have to comply with the advertising laws of that country, you could not try to force your beliefs and laws on another country, there is controls. Its just a matter of informing the authorities of any transgressions, so as they can look into it.
I can't see that the post compares ad's to a dictator, but rather to the news and media, so that means your brain is making wrong assumptions, that you were probably wanting to see.
I do not think that GGE is basing their ads on cookies, as a quick check with players shows all ads being shown, seem to be same, to all players. Most serious geeks have various security options in force on their computers, and many only allow cookies that are permitted through the spyware, and even then many outside cookies are blocked in gaming. So again we have the products of your mind popping up, and calling into question players search histories, and making assumptions. You may search for such topics and subjects, but please don't assume that others are the same.
So all in all your not that much in the know are you, so do not make assumptions that you are, or that you speak for other people, like you seem to think you do.
you don't have to register to play this game
Second, if you report and ad it's an annoyance towards the people who bought the ad spot, not the ones providing them.
Am still playing 6 years on ! - hi lvl 800 on new yrs eve (2017/18) !
Leading the Targaryens - PS interested in joining - PM any officer in Game :-)
PS in top200 on uk 1 never botted or used a VPN - that's why it took 5 yrs to get to leg 800
Nice one Sxlaxs
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Based on our past experience, for a digital content provider who aspires to sell his products to other European countries, it is most advisable to draft the general terms of business or licensing agreements in a way that allows the application of laws of the consumer's country of domicile.
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Looking at GGE's ToC, I would say its all tied up in googly de gook...with contradictions, on top of contradictions, overriding just about everything, and until a country decides to test those ToC, they will continue doing what they want. Of course the ultimate card they play is that they can pull the plug on the game, when they want and where, so if any serious attention was paid to them I would guarantee the server in that country would close. In closing one of their first terms is the following, and to me Ads are specifically made for business, and Commercial purposes, which they say are prohibited. Work that out. What they have done seemingly is just add things to those ToC as they have progressed, but without addressing the core rules they made.
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1.4 Online and mobile games and other services offered by Goodgame Studios are intended solely for the purpose of entertainment. The use of these games or services for business or commercial purposes is strictly prohibited.
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Of course this maybe another reason for their planned joining of servers, due to said complications, one of which would have to be the UK server as it exits the EU.
All players are aware how the ToC's have been used by GGE to suit their purpose, depending on the subject, and I seriously doubt it will ever change, so its another case of if a player is not happy then he moves on.
Think the game is spamming same adverts to all and I've not observed any of the sort of clever targeting using cookies that you get on even the most basic one make car forum.
Day trading, forex, international shipping and lots of weird German toilet fixings - the latter leading me to think that a) thier covid panic buying must mean toilet tissue is a scarce commodity or b) bidet's didn't catch on for them in the 80's
Put it this way....I don't think the advertisers are getting value for their money.... which I'm guessing they know and GGE aren't getting paid top dollar (well fraction of a cent...) for this : sad if it means GGE can't aford to develop the game and driving people away because of it.
And this shows again how you didn't read the article. It doesn't matter what the server name is, it is important which country YOU are from. So if you are from the UK and play on a Brazil server, you could still sue them in UK courts, would have to use German law tho.
The basic advertising law of any country is based on the country receiving the adverts, as the consumers. You try and send some of your certain advertising into Muslim Country's, or a country sending advertising about abortion's in Germany, which I think is still sensitive(may be wrong), and you see how quick that would be banned and shut down. Yes it is down to the subject, but an ad is an ad.
Ruby sales are part of the GGE gameplay, and is not relevant to what I think is being inferred to as being 3rd party businesses and commercial.(nice try)
However You could keep your thoughts to yourself rather than thinking that you are talking for the majority, when in fact you are talking purely to read your own word...Have fun or not, whichever.
ps..The argument will sooner or later be decided anyway by the pitter, patter of feet, either arriving or leaving, once GGE make any changes they are proposing.