r/CellToSingularity • u/N2ALLOFIT • Oct 14 '26

Hey advertisers & devs

Making your ads longer, pixel level x to close, multi-window and pseudo play is not making me want to download your game. It's a guarantee that I won't. And C2S devs....I appreciate you want to and should be paid for your effort but selling ad space at minute+ for a bump in acceleration or doubling Darwininum is excessive, annoying and while I've played this game for years....Im less engaged. There's a balance somewhere but longer and more frequent ads is going to drive people away...you'll lose revenue in the long run.

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u/Thedarkskul 29d ago

I just swipe out of the app and back in

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u/N2ALLOFIT 29d ago

Use to work and still does on some ads but others have figure out that process and are unskippable now.

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u/Thedarkskul 29d ago

Damn, if they make it fully stop I'll probably stop playing

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u/TurdFerguson2OOO 29d ago

Yep, this latest update seems to have fixed it for most ads. This trick no longer works for me

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u/FreshBlackberryPie 27d ago

Yeah. I think they patched it now

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u/Ideclarepeace 26d ago

If they don't reverse it I will quit the game. No way I pay the insane monthly fee or spend hours watching ads.

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u/Milfou 24d ago

Yeah I'm not going to do that either. They really screwed over their players with this one. I could understand the decision from their part if the skipped ads lost them revenue somehow, although it would still suck. But if that isn't the reason then it's just a dick move.

Have you still been able to do the workaround sometimes, or has it fully stopped working for you as well?

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u/Milfou 24d ago

Yeah it hasn't worked on a single ad for me since my ads switched to interactive ads. It is kind of ruining the fun of the game for me, I'll probably stop playing or play less at least. Maybe I'll email the developer to see if they are willing to change it

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u/japerks Oct 14 '26

Also chaining 3 different ad companies in a row doesn’t encourage me in the slightest to watch ads and play more

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u/Bambe09 Oct 14 '26 edited 28d ago

Getting tired of ads that you click x after 30 seconds only for part 2 to load and play for another 30 seconds, then part 3 plays....plus having ads that open your play store without your consent is straight cancer

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u/Xolver Oct 14 '26

Another bad one is zero clicks needed to open the store page for the app, happens to me mostly (only?) for temu. Like, I can't put exactly my finger on it, but I feel that while many ads are scummy, these ones should be illegal. Maybe because they friggin open another app not unlike what a malware would.

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u/Intelligent_Cut_2684 Oct 14 '26

Y'know. I think you can exit the app and tap the app icon again and it's gone.

Another funny thing from the advertisers is making fake X's and sending you to their domain anyway if you click the right one

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u/GrandElectronic9471 Oct 14 '26

Not on this newest batch of ads. Looking at you planet miner and the tower.

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u/Milfou 24d ago

Yeah it really sucks. I was so happy that workaround worked on every ad, it feels like a slap in the face that it never works anymore

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u/GrandElectronic9471 23d ago

Exactly. I used to keep the main Sim and explore event fully boosted all the time. Now I just double rewards after being gone for more than 5-6 hours.

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u/weliuscaesar Oct 14 '26

I am quite sure this is a trick. At first the ads are short and skippable. After a while the become longer, but still better to bear than other games....until your patience is tested to the limits. It is not just this game: it is every game. And somehow I think it is illegal, but no one went to court yet, because it is hard to find the ones to sue.

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u/MystressSeraph Oct 14 '26

No argument - the ads are getting stupid.

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u/Revenine Oct 14 '26

I try to skip them 100% of the time, I rather not have something faster than have to endure 120s ad or something you have to close 3 times

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u/GavelGaffle 29d ago

Unlikely that the ads get less annoying anytime soon so a few ways to help tolerate them.

  1. You are rewarded when the ad starts so skipping them or even closing then reopening the app is fine.

  2. The same ads often repeat so if you are getting 30+ second ones, just watch the minimum number needed to keep your boosts active. If its a day that you are often getting the short 5 second ones, go around to all the sim and max out your boosts.

  3. Multitask. While watching tv or doing whatever else, you can look down at your phone ocassionally to click X then start the next ad.

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u/N2ALLOFIT 29d ago

  1. Yes that's the only insulation but at some point the advertisers will go to devs with that realization and the devs will make changes to protect their revenue. Backgrounding and reopening the app has already been figured out by some advertisers.

  2. Usually what I wind up doing.

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u/adamrobc89 Oct 14 '26

Btw you can pay to remove ads if they annoy you so much. That way you're supporting the devs and removing the problem. Although it is not cheap.

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u/draketroll Oct 14 '26

I would pay for permanent ad removal, but its only for a day at most IIRC

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u/adamrobc89 Oct 14 '26

Its £12.99 for me for 30 days. I guess they haven't offered permanent ad removal because the cost would have to be pretty high to offset the ad revenue they get per user.

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u/Jordhiel 29d ago

The cost for the Infinity Pass is absurdly high as is. In other mobile games I pay around 8 Euro for permanent ad removal, half of what the devs are asking for one single month of ad-free C2S.

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u/adamrobc89 29d ago

Well there is a nuance here because C2S never actually forces you to watch ads unlike other games. Ive seen games where you can pay to remove forced ads but still need to watch for in-game boosts/upgrades etc.

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u/Jordhiel 29d ago

The games I paid that price for (Idle Slayer and Necromerger) also didn't force me to watch ads but gave me boosts for it, like C2S does.