It seems like it’d be trivial to add some metadata to the pop-up for which characters are being promoted and not show it if the player has those characters already.
Imagine if the pop-ups were ever relevant, rather than just pointlessly annoying.
@CCyrilS Do you mean these posts are annoying and repetitive? Are you sure you aren’t mistaking them for highly valuable notifications of incredible bargains that rarely occur in SWGOH ? You should review them just in case you missed something. If you’re dismissing them as fast as they appear, like a normal person, you probably missed a few.
Like, did you see the one for the Extra Life give-away? I did. But only because I take screen shots of them. If I weren’t, I would have dismissed it before reading and missed it.
But I still would have gotten the give-away even if I weren’t pausing to take screen shots, because like most players, I visit the store every day for the other freebies. It was right there. Couldn’t miss it.
Also, CG has decided that some pop-ups are so important that we need to see them multiple times per day. A few more copies can only help, I’d think.
@CCyrilS Do you mean these posts are annoying and repetitive? Are you sure you aren’t mistaking them for highly valuable notifications of incredible bargains that rarely occur in SWGOH ? You should review them just in case you missed something. If you’re dismissing them as fast as they appear, like a normal person, you probably missed a few.
Like, did you see the one for the Extra Life give-away? I did. But only because I take screen shots of them. If I weren’t, I would have dismissed it before reading and missed it.
But I still would have gotten the give-away even if I weren’t pausing to take screen shots, because like most players, I visit the store every day for the other freebies. It was right there. Couldn’t miss it.
Also, CG has decided that some pop-ups are so important that we need to see them multiple times per day. A few more copies can only help, I’d think.
Do you record the adverts during commercial breaks in TV shows and complain about them as well?
Once ads became unskippable, more repetitive, and more irrelevant to me, I ditched those platforms for ones that don’t rely on ads. There are plenty of options out there. There aren’t other platforms for playing SWGOH without pop-ups.
I don’t fault the platforms for relying on ads for revenue. I don’t fault SWGOH for selling pixels for a living. I do fault them for being too lazy to make their pop-ups sophisticated enough to be relevant. It’d be a win for everyone. You’d win because whenever a pop-up appeared, you’d know it had something you could use. CG would win, because they’d stop training their users that pop-ups are a waste of time and to rapidly tap the corner of the screen to dismiss them all without ever reading them.
CG: Plz give $100
Me: For what?
CG: HYPERDRIVE!! BUNDLE!!
Me: What do I get?
CG: …
Me: New characters? Gear?
CG: …
Me: Is it nothing?
CG: …
Me: It’s nothing, isn’t it?
CG: PLZ GIVE $100! PLZ GIVE $100! PLZ GIVE $100! PLZ GIVE $100!
(years pass)
CG: PLZ GIVE $100! PLZ GIVE $100! PLZ GIVE $100! PLZ GIVE $100!
Me: (sigh)
CG: Plz give $100
Me: No
CG: Plz. We’ve only made a few billion dollars.
Me: No.
CG: You said no on iPad. How about on iPhone?
Me: Still no.
CG: Plz. We cannot afford to hire a QE.
Me: If I gave you $100, you’d hire a QE?
CG: …
Me: …
CG: …no. Plz give anyway.
Me: That checks.
CG: Good news, Hyperdrive is now 50% off!
Me: …and still offers me no value?
CG: Yes, I thought you’d want to know about it. Plz give $50.
Me: Still gonna be a no from me, dawg.
1. Already have Piett
2. Already have Razor Crest
3. Already have Tie Bomber
4. Already have Razor Crest (since you asked twice)
5. Already have Executor, IG-88, Tie Pilot, Tie Advanced, Tie Bomber, IG-2000
6. Already have Executor
Six pop-ups in a row. It’s too many. All this is doing is reinforcing that offers from CG will never have any value and should be promptly ignored.
I don’t own this thread. Feel free to post your own examples of pop-ups you’d like to see less of.
Pro tip: Be sure to upload as attachments, rather than embedded images. This ensures that every pixel is preserved so people can enjoy them as the makers intended. Sure, the files take longer to upload, and take up more space on CG’s servers, but you can’t argue with quality.
Also, CG wants us to be respectful of other users’ resources, particularly bandwidth (embedded images take up more bandwidth than attachments).
Time, on the other hand, seems OK to waste. Probably because these posts don’t really waste anybody’s time, if you think about it. People could just ignore this thread, or scroll past the posts really fast if they don’t want to see them. And who knows, maybe 0.000001% of SWGOH players might see an offer they missed and will give CG the money they desperately need. They’re down to their last $77M in revenue this year. They might not ever be able to afford a Quality Assurance Engineer.
Wow really can you please spoiler those ads???? Ugh the mod is right having to see them even here is hellish.
But really, you're right. People saying it takes half a second. Having to do it every few seconds, dozens of times, more if you play a lot like I did before this?
Half a second times, let's say 60 even though I'm sure I have to see more ads than that. That's thirty seconds. A day. So every week that's three and a half minutes. Typing a little reply like this might take up a week worth of ads. I've been seeing these crappy things for years.
My brother talked me into playing again, I took a two month break, started up again yesterday, and I'm already done.
My brother doesn't get ads at all. He's put in a LOT of money. Me? I've only put in like $200. Guess it isn't enough. GDMFing paywall to play without ads. And thing is, the money I spent was BEFORE GOH's adpocalypse. If it weren't for them I probably would have spent more already.
Right. $200?, EA says being able to look into my account and see I've only spent $50? Yes. Yes. And I was planning on buying another hyperdrive bundle each and every time they're on sale. No. I'm not talking about future profits, I'm saying I spent $200 on the game so far.
Sure, some was on a lost account, but it still counts. Hyperdrive goes on sale a few times a year. EA only gains money on everything so it's profitable to keep me playing. More so to keep my brother playing which after I quit, so did he for a while. He's the whale. He's a whale. EA, Capital should want to keep him at least. I wonder how long he'll stay if I'm gone again?
These ads suck. Oh also I do have motor issues due to nerve damage from a TBI so it takes a little longer than half a second for me to close the ads. Also I have autism, am autistic, on the spectrum, have ASD, whatever you want to call it, and ads have a... obviously... reverse effect on me.
Should be able to opt out of these damned things without hitting the pay requirement.
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It seems like it’d be trivial to add some metadata to the pop-up for which characters are being promoted and not show it if the player has those characters already.
Imagine if the pop-ups were ever relevant, rather than just pointlessly annoying.
Like, did you see the one for the Extra Life give-away? I did. But only because I take screen shots of them. If I weren’t, I would have dismissed it before reading and missed it.
But I still would have gotten the give-away even if I weren’t pausing to take screen shots, because like most players, I visit the store every day for the other freebies. It was right there. Couldn’t miss it.
Also, CG has decided that some pop-ups are so important that we need to see them multiple times per day. A few more copies can only help, I’d think.
Nope. Pretty sure I'm good.
Once ads became unskippable, more repetitive, and more irrelevant to me, I ditched those platforms for ones that don’t rely on ads. There are plenty of options out there. There aren’t other platforms for playing SWGOH without pop-ups.
I don’t fault the platforms for relying on ads for revenue. I don’t fault SWGOH for selling pixels for a living. I do fault them for being too lazy to make their pop-ups sophisticated enough to be relevant. It’d be a win for everyone. You’d win because whenever a pop-up appeared, you’d know it had something you could use. CG would win, because they’d stop training their users that pop-ups are a waste of time and to rapidly tap the corner of the screen to dismiss them all without ever reading them.
CG: Plz give $100
Me: For what?
CG: HYPERDRIVE!! BUNDLE!!
Me: What do I get?
CG: …
Me: New characters? Gear?
CG: …
Me: Is it nothing?
CG: …
Me: It’s nothing, isn’t it?
CG: PLZ GIVE $100! PLZ GIVE $100! PLZ GIVE $100! PLZ GIVE $100!
(years pass)
CG: PLZ GIVE $100! PLZ GIVE $100! PLZ GIVE $100! PLZ GIVE $100!
Me: (sigh)
CG: Plz give $100
Me: No
CG: Plz. We’ve only made a few billion dollars.
Me: No.
CG: You said no on iPad. How about on iPhone?
Me: Still no.
CG: Plz. We cannot afford to hire a QE.
Me: If I gave you $100, you’d hire a QE?
CG: …
Me: …
CG: …no. Plz give anyway.
Me: That checks.
Me: …and still offers me no value?
CG: Yes, I thought you’d want to know about it. Plz give $50.
Me: Still gonna be a no from me, dawg.
2. Already have Razor Crest
3. Already have Tie Bomber
4. Already have Razor Crest (since you asked twice)
5. Already have Executor, IG-88, Tie Pilot, Tie Advanced, Tie Bomber, IG-2000
6. Already have Executor
Six pop-ups in a row. It’s too many. All this is doing is reinforcing that offers from CG will never have any value and should be promptly ignored.
Roger roger
Pro tip: Be sure to upload as attachments, rather than embedded images. This ensures that every pixel is preserved so people can enjoy them as the makers intended. Sure, the files take longer to upload, and take up more space on CG’s servers, but you can’t argue with quality.
Also, CG wants us to be respectful of other users’ resources, particularly bandwidth (embedded images take up more bandwidth than attachments).
Time, on the other hand, seems OK to waste. Probably because these posts don’t really waste anybody’s time, if you think about it. People could just ignore this thread, or scroll past the posts really fast if they don’t want to see them. And who knows, maybe 0.000001% of SWGOH players might see an offer they missed and will give CG the money they desperately need. They’re down to their last $77M in revenue this year. They might not ever be able to afford a Quality Assurance Engineer.
Wow really can you please spoiler those ads???? Ugh the mod is right having to see them even here is hellish.
But really, you're right. People saying it takes half a second. Having to do it every few seconds, dozens of times, more if you play a lot like I did before this?
Half a second times, let's say 60 even though I'm sure I have to see more ads than that. That's thirty seconds. A day. So every week that's three and a half minutes. Typing a little reply like this might take up a week worth of ads. I've been seeing these crappy things for years.
My brother talked me into playing again, I took a two month break, started up again yesterday, and I'm already done.
My brother doesn't get ads at all. He's put in a LOT of money. Me? I've only put in like $200. Guess it isn't enough. GDMFing paywall to play without ads. And thing is, the money I spent was BEFORE GOH's adpocalypse. If it weren't for them I probably would have spent more already.
Right. $200?, EA says being able to look into my account and see I've only spent $50? Yes. Yes. And I was planning on buying another hyperdrive bundle each and every time they're on sale. No. I'm not talking about future profits, I'm saying I spent $200 on the game so far.
Sure, some was on a lost account, but it still counts. Hyperdrive goes on sale a few times a year. EA only gains money on everything so it's profitable to keep me playing. More so to keep my brother playing which after I quit, so did he for a while. He's the whale. He's a whale. EA, Capital should want to keep him at least. I wonder how long he'll stay if I'm gone again?
These ads suck. Oh also I do have motor issues due to nerve damage from a TBI so it takes a little longer than half a second for me to close the ads. Also I have autism, am autistic, on the spectrum, have ASD, whatever you want to call it, and ads have a... obviously... reverse effect on me.
Should be able to opt out of these damned things without hitting the pay requirement.
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