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DragonsEgg1
Private
Me too!!
I know Inno will crave the projected revenues from ads, but in doing so will drive hundreds or thousands of players to other games. I have advised them of this. My spending on this game is also in the $000's and I'm simply unprepared to pay $80ish more per month to be ad free. Remember, the game delves us into a make-believe world and we escape reality when we play. But no longer, loud music comes on (I play silently) and advertises some castrol product. That destroys the game world in my mind. Abandon these plans inno if you value my custom - and the revenue my 4 cities have provided. This will be the beginning of your end I suspect
DragonsEgg1
Private
Thank you Inno but you are deluded to think advertising is welcomed by anyone. Advertising is a cancer on anything it touches, yet you present it as something good. Furthermore, you know this, and I know it, because you offer freedom from this this nastiness if I spend $80 or so per month for premium play. Sorry, but I spend enough with you, without this soul destroying "feature". You're idiots - you have something good and untainted, and despoil it with ads. Ask yourselves, "How much do I welcome ads, or my friends? Do we use a PVR to rip ads out of TV programs?". You take a person's existence in the game and rip them out to sell them some Castrol product, destroying my minds harmony. Well sorry, you can have my income each month =OR= advertising. I know you'll ofc choose the electronic cancer of ads. So, after these years and anticipated ones, it is time to say goodbye. If after a few days they're still intruding on me, it will be time to migrate to another game. And there are no shortage of one's without ads.
Vesiger
Monarch
Nobody is actually being forced to watch ads (or at least not in any part of my customary gameplay, which doesn't involve spending any money) - what is happening is that there are a lot of oil drums stuck around the city and we have to use extra button presses to skip past the mandatory 'watch an ad' default option on the tavern. It's ugly and a marginal extra nuisance, but it's not an inherent game killer...
PiQuadrat
Private
First of all, I fully understand InnoGames needs to make money. Until now, buying stuff in-game provided only very limited benefits, which kept the game very fair to those not paying to win.
However, for me as a player it is not only about money. I don't buy stuff in-game because it feels like cheating to me, the in-game achievements are not my own anymore, instead I paid for a legs-up. On the other hand not paying anything makes me feel a bit like cheating out-game, since, as an IT-professional myself, I'm fully aware that Innogame has infrastructure-costs, development-costs, etc. and by not paying I'm basically leaching off of them.
The video-ads, on the other hand, are very intrusive and feel like littering to me. One wrong click and my phone starts blaring out obnoxious advertisement noise, which is annoying at best, and a real embarrassment at worst (e.g. at work in on toilet :-))
How about simply offering a subscription option (maybe in addition to the other options)? I don't buy anything in-game (since that would feel like cheating in-game to me), but instead I pay a subscription-fee to get rid of ads for a specified period of time? To me, that would be fair (as long as the pricepoint is fair). My achievements are still my own, I don't pay to win in-game, but I do pay out-game to not be annoyed. And InnoGames can still adjust the price-point once in a while (taking effect on renewal of the subscription).
Fat ugly linduuh
Corporal
Just a single one off fee less than £5 to get rid of all ads FOREVER for those who haven't already paid that, end of story.
Perhaps introduce different price options for special avatars (Like Fortnite) and for your city like different effects for your town hall that don't give any boost but look good and can be seen by anyone.
I believe that absolutely nobody wants to actually have to watch ads because they're always extremely repetitive and you still get ads for a game you've actually downloaded which is hilarious.
Just remove them and everyone will be happier. You can make money in ways that doesn't annoy 99.9% of your players and without turning it into a pay to win game more than it is already.
Perhaps introduce different price options for special avatars (Like Fortnite) and for your city like different effects for your town hall that don't give any boost but look good and can be seen by anyone.
I believe that absolutely nobody wants to actually have to watch ads because they're always extremely repetitive and you still get ads for a game you've actually downloaded which is hilarious.
Just remove them and everyone will be happier. You can make money in ways that doesn't annoy 99.9% of your players and without turning it into a pay to win game more than it is already.
PiQuadrat
Private
FOREVER is a long time :-) I don´t know how much they get for each advertisement watched. What they would get if a player clicks half of all ads might be an OK reference. I think that would be more than £5 in a life time, probably also more than £5 a year. A Youtube Video-add costs 1-3 ct, the game offers around 10 ads per day? 30ct? Half of that is 15ct, times 30 is $4.50 a month, or a bit less than £4. Like any other person, I´d prefer for free, and if I notice I play less regular I`d probably just quit entirely, but I guess around that amount would be a fair ad-free subscription.
Personally, I do sometimes click those to aid all friends once a day. If there was an option to visit all free friends taverns, that would be interesting as well.
All other ads I click only accidentally and try to cancel immediately. I don´t care for those 5 FP or supply or gold packages at all, I don`t need those events without ads, would be perfectly happy if I could opt out entirely and they wouldn´t show on my village anymore.
suethegreat
Captain
Will ads eventually arrive on laptops? Still reeling from quotes of $'000's spent on this. Given the player base must have rocketed at the time of covid those players like me are probably in the situation of running out of space and reluctant to make the game harder by aging, have developed a diamond farm and are now reassessing their game/life balance. Now if watching/opening ads produced an allowance towards an extra build square then bring them on 
Richy in Odhrorvar
Private
I managed to get my wife playing FoE with me, now she is playing more on the games your ads introduce to her. Does this do you any favours? I doubt it....
Better to design more events and try to get people spend diamonds there rather than push players to play other games.
Better to design more events and try to get people spend diamonds there rather than push players to play other games.
Mushashi Miyamoto
Private
I was given the oil drums and chests free initially. I was not told that they were going to have ads slapped on them. There was a lot of speculation early on why some players received the oil drums and the chests. When these chests first appeared, they were welcome additions to the game as they gave the players additional chances to gain coins and supplies and no one said they were testing this for advertising, in fact nothing was said! Little did we all know that this was the precursor to Inno slapping ads on these and almost every single part of the game.
I now have ads on my Tavern boosts, on the Minstrel, on my Castle, on construction in my city AND in my settlements, incidents, in the Quests and of course the barrels and chests. I was also given an automatic Motivate/Polish option on my Friends, Guild and Neighbours with no ads. Nothing was said about slapping ads on these. Now they too have ads in them. So I’ve gone back to Motivating/Polishing the original way which I don’t mind. What I find underhand is that Inno gave all these items free, then they slap ads on them later.
So now almost every part of FORGE OF ADS is covered in advertising. The worst part is that the ads don’t occur once, the same ad is repeated over and over again.
I have found that it takes over 30 mins to click and play all the ads so that I could get my normal rewards in the game and you have to do this over and over again as the ads keep reappearing, This game now has more advertising in it than the actual game!!!.
I was also subjected to one ad that was sexually inappropriate and explicit. This ad was reported to Inno Support and after much discussion and sending of screenshots, it was removed.
I think now that Forge of Empires has turned into FORGE OF ADS it has taken the fun out of the game and I now do not enjoy it anymore, I am currently looking for another game to play (play being the operative word as isn’t this what we all want?) Surely no one downloaded FOE to watch ads, that was one of the main attractions for me in the first place. I know Inno say you don’t HAVE to watch the ads but if you don’t, you don’t get the rewards that you were receiving prior to the ads.
I will happily continue to play FOE if Inno remove these ads, perhaps offer a subscription or some other way for Inno to gain revenue than ads. Ads are an extremely UNPOPULAR choice. Surely Inno can come up with something other than ads!
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Fat ugly linduuh
Corporal
What do you mean? Don't you get ads? What that poster has described is what everyone with ads is going through and his new name for the game is correct FORGE OF ADS is not a game you play anymore. I mean could they not think of more places to put the ads, surely they could put ads after every fight in GBG and an ad before you can read any message thread and pm and perhaps an ad to list any trade and take any trade. Also perhaps a ad when you first open the game and one to watch before you can log off and perhaps every time you add fps to a GB and one to receive your rewards, I'm sure there's more they could think of.
Paladiac the Pure
Major-General
Actually, I LOVE that idea to have adds before listing any and every trade. What a unique way to stop many of those players who think they are able to take "control" of the AD, or of a certain good. I would really like to see that idea of yours be implemented, it could help make using the Market much more tolerable.
klods hans
Tsar
Do you really think that we love FOE so much and that we are so addicted to the game, that you can make us pay an insane amount of money to get rid of ads?
Dead-Eye
General
Probably. That's why this bollocks is happening! Or perhaps they think we are stupid.
PiQuadrat
Private
You consider them normal rewards. I don't. I can't be bothered to watch all the ads for those rewards, and the game is still easy enough to progress in. The only ads I tend to watch is those for bulk-helping others (all friends or so), which actually saves me time in balance: I trigger the ad, go get myself a coffee, and when I'm back the ad is done already.
My main issue is that the oil-drums are easily clicked accidentally, waking up my spouse when I'm playing a bit late in the evening or leading to embarrassment during meetings or in the toilet stall ;-)
Paladiac the Pure
Major-General
Seeing some of the players that spend dedicated 10, 15 or even 20+ hours every single day during the GbG .... well, I would say they are probably quite correct in thinking that.
SK of Reds - Retired
Private
Dear Inno Games
Thank you very much for not placing any Ads or chances of having to watch them for me on either brower or iOS. I am an avid player of FOE and will spend money every time there is an event and certainly times when i'm partaking in GbG. For those that are paying players, I don't know if there is a threshold to reach to get all thee chests and quest without having to watch any ads. I spend quite a lot because this game is an out from my day to day work life. As long as I don't get any distractions while I log in and play, I'm happy to keep spending money on this game.
On a totally separate ask, please keep releasing new events, thats when I like to spend a bit more to ensure my city has a bunch of the new event buildings. City is looking really good thanks to your new event, awesome work, keep it up
Fat ugly linduuh
Corporal
The threshold must be £300 + by my guess but they just took the threshold away because the only way to get rid of the ads now is to spend nearly £30 A MONTH which is ridiculous and disgusting especially for those who had already reached the stupidly high threshold, remember other games charge a few ££ not £30 a month!