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Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by apapli »

mmjaa wrote: post #73
apapli wrote: post #29

Having a 4 year old son I am the first person to put my hand up and say I absolutely HATE ads and general in-app purchases for games that he likes to play on my iPhone. In some cases the way these are implemented it is almost akin to being in a casino which is not a skill I really want my son picking up (watch this ad to see what prize you can WIN etc). I welcome Sega's announcement and will be delighted to hand over…

My kids love The Land of Venn series: https://itunes.apple.com/at/app-bundle/learn-master-geometri...

Thanks, will check them out :)

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by apapli »

gmac wrote: post #80
PakG1 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's funny. I remember not being allowed to go to Chuck E Cheese's or play carnival games that offered prizes for the same reason, parents didn't want priming for casino visiting. I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.

I often wonder if this kind of extreme parenting is more or less likely to result in the negative consequences the parents are trying to avoid. One could hypothesize that, having never learned to enjoy a pleasure in moderation, a person might be more vulnerable to going off the rails with it later on. Anecdotally, the friends I have that are most prone to binging on sugary things are the ones who were never allowed s…

Maybe, but having a 4 year old I'm happy to be called a helicopter parent with regards to casino type content.

When he is older, yes I'll need to pull back a bit :)

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by apapli »

jeffhuys wrote: post #54
apapli wrote: post #29

Having a 4 year old son I am the first person to put my hand up and say I absolutely HATE ads and general in-app purchases for games that he likes to play on my iPhone. In some cases the way these are implemented it is almost akin to being in a casino which is not a skill I really want my son picking up (watch this ad to see what prize you can WIN etc). I welcome Sega's announcement and will be delighted to hand over…

Hey, you can lock certain parts of the screen from touch on the iPhone. It locks the phone inside an app and you can define "dead" parts of the screen, really handy.

Thanks, yes I've done that. Works well in keeping him off youtube/my work email etc. The kid lock is great, unfortunately doesn't stop the ads.

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by SoreGums »

apapli wrote: post #29

Having a 4 year old son I am the first person to put my hand up and say I absolutely HATE ads and general in-app purchases for games that he likes to play on my iPhone. In some cases the way these are implemented it is almost akin to being in a casino which is not a skill I really want my son picking up (watch this ad to see what prize you can WIN etc). I welcome Sega's announcement and will be delighted to hand over…

Hmm, I installed sonic on Android, first screen that popped up before getting into the game was "give money to get rid of ads". So maybe install it and pay for it :)

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by apapli »

shurcooL wrote: post #42
apapli wrote: post #29

Having a 4 year old son I am the first person to put my hand up and say I absolutely HATE ads and general in-app purchases for games that he likes to play on my iPhone. In some cases the way these are implemented it is almost akin to being in a casino which is not a skill I really want my son picking up (watch this ad to see what prize you can WIN etc). I welcome Sega's announcement and will be delighted to hand over…

For a game suggestion, I'll mention "Re-Volt Classic" [1]. It's a very high quality port of an old PC game. It runs beautifully on today's mobile devices, and the game is really well made IMO. Be careful not to get Re-Volt 2/3/etc., they're awful modern micro-transaction clones. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1OH4ZKr1iY

Awesome suggestion, video looks great, will be buying it soon. Thanks :)

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by tdiggity »

mburst wrote: post #24
tdiggity wrote: post #10

The Sonic game uses the most vile type of in-app ad. The ad requires you to play Game of War for some indeterminate amount of time. You are made to play it after every stage. I hope Sega changes this, it basically makes their game unplayable.

Not that I'm defending the ad, but if you wait the timeout an x will appear to close the ad. No game play needed

Actually, these ads are a little smarter (more likely poorly programmed). I've waited and tried to time it out, and no X appeared. A few times, I was presented with the "click here to install" modal window with no other option to exit/close (after waiting for 60 seconds+). If you click on the install button, a browser opens, then the app store open, and when you finally make your way back to the original Sega game I found that it couldn't keep it all in memory and the whole thing reloads from the beginning.

I'm not taking it too seriously, but it's a real quick way to make me never play any of the classics they put out on IOS.

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by ybrah »

lucasverra wrote: post #75
huhtenberg wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Set up a DNS proxy, point your son's iPad at it, tail the log and then blacklist domains that serve these ads. Bonus, this can also be used to remove YouTube and other kinds of ads as well as all the phone-home "analytics" if that's your thing. -- Edit -- Some options: http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html + ToDo's via Google https://github.com/apankrat/dnswhisperer or more generally https://github.com/search…

Also, the kid and father could pihole the shait out of it. I know i really want to do it. Q: About ad blocking dns projects in general, what's the downside ? (beside jeopardizing the future of the internets)

Making people who have passive ad income upset enough to tell people not to use it but in a non confrontational way

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by candiodari »

tdiggity wrote: post #10

The Sonic game uses the most vile type of in-app ad. The ad requires you to play Game of War for some indeterminate amount of time. You are made to play it after every stage. I hope Sega changes this, it basically makes their game unplayable.

What happens with wifi off ?

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by candiodari »

yincrash wrote: post #8
chenster wrote: post #6

It's not free. Every game has "in-app purchase".

It appears to be ad supported with an in-app purchase to disable ads for $1.99. According to eurogamer, "You can play them forever without paying, or you can spend a one-off fee of £1.99 to ditch the ads, which appear on the start screen, the save screen, and I think at launch, but will not interrupt play in anyway" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-21-segas-back-cata...

Oh so it's $1.99 PER GAME. I was wondering why this amount seemed rather cheap.

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by NTripleOne »

Bakary wrote: post #62
gambiting wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not without rooting it isn't. I don't think even Android 7.0 has an option to disable internet access on per-app basis - you can disable most permissions, but accessing the internet does not require a special permission(there used to be an INTERNET permission but it has been removed by Google)

>(there used to be an INTERNET permission but it has been removed by Google) Can't say I'm too surprised by this development. I am surprised they were magnanimous enough to give it in the first place.

It was likely implemented before google took over android.
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