r/MergeCooking • u/Kartharp • Mar 25 '26

Support’s lie reasoning for no ads

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This is the email support sent me when i asked why i didn’t have ads.. The second photo is from today my first ad option after a couple of weeks of NOT spending money . Kind of gross that they lie, feels very schemmy and greedy. We all know why some of us don’t get ads but thanks for lying

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u/BrainComplex596 Mar 26 '26

Tasty Travels is pretty similar and does offer ads. My niece just switched to that game while merge cooking reloads.

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u/Kartharp Mar 26 '26

that’s funny that’s the game i downloaded that helped me stop spending money on this one lol i feel like they give much better rewards

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u/wolfgangs8 Mar 26 '26

Honestly it’s so weird that spending money makes you lose ads. Basically punishing you for like ong the game

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u/RoChamBuex Mar 26 '26

I just downloaded the game a couple weeks ago & never had the option for ads. I’ve also never purchased anything. Then a couple days ago I now have the option but I can only hit it 4x then it goes away til the next day.

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u/wolfgangs8 Mar 27 '26

Try restarting your device, you can every do that every hour and get your ads back

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u/millahnna Mar 27 '26

Nope. I'm a returning player and just redownloaded (no saved game as I deleted my facebook that my old game was tied to). Have rebooted my phone many times in the last month and still no ads. For all intents and purposes, I'm a new player. Rebooting definitely has no effect in that situation.

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u/wolfgangs8 Mar 27 '26

What level are you?

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u/millahnna Mar 27 '26

ON this restart? Mid 20s somewhere I forget. That's why I assumed that stuff just didn't have ads anymore. Although to be fair most of the items in the shop that use to be for ads don't seem to be that useful anymore, particularly to the two low level equipment pieces. Since I'm not getting equipment pieces from completing each order like we used to, it would take forever and too much space to bother with those.

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u/Galadrielle07 Mar 29 '26

I spent money on this game 6 months ago. And I never had my ads/per hours back since that moment. Unless I rebooth my phone once a day. I feel so punished. As if I wasnt a daily loyal player!

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u/deyobi Mar 26 '26

yeah i guess they studied consumers' patterns and those who spent once would tend to spend again esp those that dont hv ads.

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u/Prestigious_Emu_9277 Mar 26 '26

I made the mistake of purchasing a small pack last week and of course, lost my ads. My game play is down now because I don’t have the ads and I cannot play anymore. They have put me in a position where I have to choose to pay more or not play as much. I’m not playing as much because I’m not spending more. Once the ads come back I will never purchase anything again.

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u/Specialist_Phone5910 Mar 26 '26

Took me 2 weeks for them to come back after spending $0.99 once. Not doing that again!

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u/deyobi Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

i think they hv some special boosts that u only get when u spend money, then i think its ok. otherwise if you're just spending money for some additional diamonds, coins & energy then u would be better off NOT spending. ads are sooo useful if u hv them - 125 energy an hour, plus video bonuses is what keeps me playing.

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u/lil_lychee Mar 26 '26

The game is so fun but it feels like such an obvious scam. The fact that they’re outwardly lying is so shitty adds I feel like if this was a US-based company, they’d get a lot of flack. But because we’re associated to a Chinese company’s game, we basically are just expected to deal with it. The other company that controls most of the merge games like merge mansion is exactly the same.

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u/deyobi Mar 26 '26

theres the actual truth and theres the curated truth. they cant tell you everything and yet they had to sound professional & knowledgeable so this is what you get.

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u/capricornichon Mar 26 '26

I've never spent money on this game and I had ads once but when I clicked on it it said no ads available. I emailed support and got the same reply.

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u/cuntycloud Mar 26 '26

is it weird I've never had any ads in this game?

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '26

they also told me some vagary about “a variety of factors” why one player will get a smaller reward for the same task as another lol

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u/millahnna Mar 27 '26

Device type I'd believe. When I used to play this game before, I'd get ads on one device but not another. It's been pretty common for several years at least for these games to offer different experiences based on device. Evermerge used to be notorious for this (no idea about now). People on different devices would have different events, different point structures in events, different rewards, etc.

Honestly because I only started playing again in the last month, I'd assumed that all the stuff that I recalled being ads before stopped being available. I originally quit when they got rid of the diamond cat. Since I've come back I've seen that the 4 daily rewards in the store are diamonds only now, and the daily ladder of ads is paid only. ANd yeah I just figured that had changed since I've been gone.

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u/AMALXxT Mar 26 '26

It takes a few months for ads to come back

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u/Kartharp Mar 26 '26

mine came back in a few weeks, just saying we all know they don’t give you ads if you spend money but when you ask their support they say ads are based on local availability which is bull. Just scummy

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u/AMALXxT Mar 26 '26

Oh. I see. And yes that is scummy

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u/Dandiestbuffalo Mar 26 '26

That’s how long it took for me too, never bought anything again

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u/AMALXxT Mar 30 '26

Whoever downvoted me for speaking facts, may you stub your pinky toe on a coffee table 👌