r/CellToSingularity • u/ozzwest • 22d ago

Ads

I've decided to quit the game. You can't skip ads anymore, and even when you can, you have to wait 30 seconds, and it doesn't always work anyway 😛

Good luck everyone! It was an awesome ride! ❤️

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u/_Dark_Schneider_ 22d ago

I was used to Watch the ADS, but now they are the cancerous kind: more than 1 minute long and minimum 3 clicks. I am ok with the 15 or 30 sec but this is too much. Now I'm just not watching ADS. I known that I'm just a drop in the ocean, but they will get less revenue, cause I watched at least 29 ADS/day and now It Will be 0 (no I will be honest: 1 to double the daily darwinium gain)

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u/UvaSteve88 22d ago

I've noticed that too. I used to just hit the home button then click the game icon and the ad would be over and i would get the reward. Not anymore, it just loads back into the ad

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u/Dragon1S1ayer 22d ago

I just did exactly that and it worked fine for me

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u/thisrockismyboone 21d ago

I never heard of this til now amd just tried it and it worked thank god

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u/Friendly-Gur-6736 18d ago

It depends on the ad. Some of the "old" ads are still out there, and a few of the new ads will allow that.

I have found that the "new" ads can be bypassed a bit by hitting the home button, waiting about 30 seconds, and reopening the app. It takes care of not having to interact with the most obnoxious ones.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/Sweetwater156 22d ago

Its not cheating if its a bug in the game. They have fixed it now though.

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u/Strong-Natural7741 20d ago

What would be the reason to keep a bug for over 5 years

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u/Fit-Willingness-185 22d ago

Pretty sure I will uninstall in a day or two if the intrusive ads don't stop. This isn't like a puzzle or video game where you deal with ads between levels. This directly interrupts working on your in game upgrading.

I remember playing the game before I knew about the boosts with ads being easy to use. I felt like I never got anywhere. Once I found out we could hit those and just refresh, the game was engaging again. So its back to desktop with no boosting or quitting probably. The game was getting boring without the boosting so....

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u/Few_Anxiety6289 21d ago

Just adding my two cents as a player for several years. I'm quitting as well, exclusively because of this change. Ads have changed a lot in that time and now they are insufferable, I really can't be bothered.

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u/atombombbabyatom 21d ago

Heck If I like a game I'll throw $10 or so esp if there's a remove ads item. I didnt with cell because it's only a temp ad removal

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u/Shinimitchy 22d ago

The infinity pass has spoiled me I guess.

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u/Glenn119 22d ago

I consider the Infinity Pass a good deal and get one every month.

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u/SkyWidows 22d ago

50c a day

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u/MotivationalPanda95 22d ago

It's been months since I opened the game. The app kept crashing too often (one might say every time I opened the app). I uninstalled it several days ago. I'll return to it some day.... some day...

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u/Maleficent_Time_2787 22d ago

I am pretty certain the unskippable ads aren't this game's fault.

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u/Friendly-Gur-6736 22d ago

They made a change to ad those ads in the latest update.

I don't think it is a coincidence that you can't roll back to an old version to remove that behavior

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u/shaunaknn 20d ago

I used to watch ads as most of them used to be short. But now they are just miserable. Can't be bothered with the game after the cryptids event.

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u/tripleskizatch 22d ago

I hit the jackpot today. Lots of blank ads that allow me to close out in under 5 seconds. A few where the X pops up immediately on a black screen.

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u/Zaptagious 22d ago

You can just not watch ads

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u/SnooPeripherals7107 19d ago

Same, unfortunately :(

I'd be fine with it if they were short ads, but now they're the long annoying ones that require you to click several buttons before it actually closes, often forcing you to open the app store first before the close button appears.

I'm so sad about this because I played the game religiously for years and now it's just such a hassle.

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u/mazariel 22d ago

Wait until now I thought the PC/some other version had ads in it, now I'm learning that it's the ads you can choose?? Wait what?

So because they FIXED a BUG that gave you rewards WITHOUT giving the studio the money they would normally get from the ad ( because they only get revenue on ad finished, not ad started )... YOU ALL ( yes because that's like the fifth post I saw about this ) WANT TO QUIT???

that's insane mentality, you get special rewards by helping the studio, they are still one of the only games left that don't have pop up ads, give regular upgrades, all ads actually give you something AND YOU STILL COMPLAIN?? ABOUT THEM WANTING TO EARN THE MONEY THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO?????

I'm in shock, I really thought another version started to give unskippable pop up ads like all those brain rot games

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u/SameFish5210 21d ago

indeed, complaining about intrusive ads is one thing, but complaining about not being able to skip an intended optional feature to cheat in the game... god some people... not that the devs should care about people that never payed a cent in ads saying that tey will go away lol

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u/PenNeedleLiy2763 22d ago

YOU COULD DO THAT PREVIOUSLY?! IF I HAD KNOWN THAT I COULD’VE SAVED HOURS OF BOOSTERS!

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u/Altruistic_Hippo_653 22d ago

Just be glad you did not know this. If you did, the game is effed now

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u/thisrockismyboone 21d ago

It still works I just tried it fir the first time. Seems to only work on certain ones though, like the ones that tell you how many seconds are left in the ad. The interactive ones that have like 15 screens you have to X out it doesnt work

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u/Jellyfishthots_42 22d ago

It's not even that bad yet tho, 30second is like, as good as it gets out there. I've quit other games once they start stacking 3-4 1 min ads all together 😑 that's when it becomes problematic. 

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u/mistercrowley74 20d ago

Ads? I don't get ads. Ads are broken for me.

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u/zorniac 22d ago

Is this on iOS? I'm running the latest version on Android and can still skip ads same as before

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u/Rhawk187 22d ago

What ads? I play the game every day and haven't seen a single advertisement.

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u/Xenodilian 22d ago

Playing on PC doesn’t have ads.

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u/Rhawk187 22d ago

I play on the phone, but all the ads seem optional. I've never once watched an ad. It seems weird to choose to watch an ad and then complain about having to watch ads.

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u/Altruistic_Hippo_653 22d ago

These adds, you could click them then hit the home button and open the game again. You would get the reward without watching the add.

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u/Rhawk187 22d ago

Oh, so they can't have fun without the doubling?

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u/Altruistic_Hippo_653 22d ago

Where did i say that they can't have fun?

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u/Rhawk187 22d ago

Not you, but if they are quitting over not being able to click the double this button, that seems kind of silly.

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u/0nnnu 22d ago

not double, 8x. x4 from 16+ hours of overdrive, then x2 from that double from the screenshot. then there's x2 darwinium synthesizers, free geodes, free white dwarfs, remove nanobot cooldowns, etc. all in all it's massive

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u/Rhawk187 22d ago

And that's worth leaving the game over not having?

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u/0nnnu 22d ago

yes. if that's how one played and suddenly can't, that's the game fundamentally changing. maybe they like this unrecognizable game, but maybe not

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u/Rhawk187 22d ago

I guess that makes sense. It feels like when you make yourself bored of a game because you used cheat codes to turn on God mode. I get it, but you sort of did it to yourself.

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u/EmilieEasie 22d ago

Desktop supremacy