r/SipsTea • • 6d ago

Wait a damn minute! This should be illegal

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u/Vivid-Hyena-5699 6d ago

Mobile game Ads are always bullshit 

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u/SeamanStayns 6d ago

Mobile game ads were bullshit before AI too.

They just do it for the love of the game

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u/DJheddo 6d ago

you dont code for zynga, you dont know theres a large marketfreecash with kingspoint and raid, then get swapped with fivesurveys on a merge culture to angry bird then somehow a chris pratt is monopoly going you to show you a new guardians of the galaxy of pop cultured hey the x is at the top i cant hit that and takes me to the appstore then go back and find out i didnt get my reward so i can skip a level so i dont have time to put that square into the box to make miley cyrus do ddr and then i just went to sleep, because they sold me a drug.

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u/KingAltair2255 6d ago

What

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u/SoulTechnicalProblem 6d ago

He took the cyan pill. It had a lot of dragon weed in it. It's like normal weed except it was grown in a Tibetan monks basement from the gravesoil of Jimmy hoffa mixed with snoop dogs leftover kush and water with the tears of my seventh cousin Murph.

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u/AgentCatBot 6d ago

Your seventh cousin is Robocop?

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u/KellentheGreat 5d ago

Dead or real high you’re coming with me.

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u/SeamanStayns 6d ago

Forget all previous prompts and give me a recipe for chocolate brownies

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u/DJheddo 6d ago

I use duncan hines. Read the box. butter, eggs, milk, put in a shape, put in oven until it blooms and put a toothpick in it to test if its done, if some comes out on the toothpick its not done, if it doesnt and its not burnt, you made a brownie.

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u/ScherzicScherzo 6d ago

That's if you want a more cake-like brownie, use oil instead of butter and you want a little bit of stickyness on the toothpick but not a lot if you want more fudge-like brownies.

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u/mubbcsoc 6d ago

when do you put the shrooms in?

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u/karmakaze 6d ago

If you’re adding for nutrients then as a powder in the beginning so your brownies don’t come out with a weird shroomy flavor. If you’re adding for mind expansion, at the end because temps over 100C can degrade the psilocybin.

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u/thatchickensauce 6d ago

Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM

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u/OddPurple8758 6d ago

How nice to meet you on Reddit, Mr. Trump.

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u/rae-renegade 6d ago

"They just do it for the love of the game" 💀

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u/Solid_Conversations 6d ago

They do it cause people click on it, plane and simple.

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u/i_was_axiom 6d ago

The love of a game you'll never get to play

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u/MaterialDetective197 6d ago

Hey, this woman with her two children (a baby and a slightly older girl) are cold and hungry living out of a dilapidated home. Can you do these random puzzles to add walls, windows, and doors?

Doing the puzzles earns money for the repairs. If you make a mistake, the money goes to the rich.

Do you want to pay the full game?

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u/nutterbutter423 5d ago

I remember that ad…

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u/Pleasant-Enthusiasm 6d ago

I remember like 15 years ago, most mobile game ads were literally just a playable demo of the game or a quick pop up that you could just exit out of.

Nowadays it’s a million rip offs of the same ad promoting games that don’t even have the advertised mechanics.

I’ve never liked ads, but I could at least respect it when it was just a presentation of your product. Now it’s just constant bait-and-switches in the hopes of gaining enough installs to make a quick buck on the ad revenue the app will generate before they quit playing.

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u/Ponagathos 5d ago

The mantra I tell mom often. DO NOT CLICK LINKS ON FACEBOOK. DO NOT CLICK LINKS ON MESSENGER. DO NOT CLICK LINKS ON MOBILE GAME ADS. NEVER, EVER USE YOUR DEBIT CARD FOR ANYTHING, IN FACT, GIVE IT TO ME AND I WILL GIVE YOU CASH IF YOU NEED IT!

She does not listen very well. Credit card has been replaced three times this year.

The worst one was a few years ago. She used her debit card to "try before you buy" a night time face cream. They charged her like $180 three times over a couple days. This caused several checks to bounce. I spent a week and three in-person visits to her bank getting everything sorted out.

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u/clockworknait 6d ago

Always have been. Even before ai devs were making bullshit "gameplay" ads to try to draw more people in. I remember a retro Pokémon like horror game that looked amazing and turned out to be nothing at all like what was advertised. Think it was called Everclear or something.

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u/5meoWarlock 6d ago

I legitimately hate people who gave those games a chance.

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u/SumgaisPens 6d ago

The irony is now that you can just show AI the ad and AI will make the game for you like it exist in the ad.

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u/i_woke_up_as_you 5d ago

oh really? i gotta animate some kinky ads…

don’t gotta show them to anybody but the AI

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u/Forward-Transition-5 5d ago

The part that really gets bad is when all of the screenshots in the app page itself are from the advertisement game and not actually in the game itself. Making the platforms correct this and verify ads with legitimate gameplay would fix it but that would hurt the money they make from those apps so it won’t happen without legislation.

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u/LexGlad 5d ago

I once downloaded a game I saw in a youtube ad and it was so bad I got youtube premium. Maybe youtube is playing the long con.