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Not if they force you to do work for them in order to use it. They're basically employing you to look at ads, and paying you in game time.
And what about Google? They basically employ you to look at ads and then pay you in being able to check your emails?
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It's free (as in money), but "free (as in money)" is a very limited definition of free
It seems that most people would like it to be free as in charity, which would never happen.
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There's a way. A firewall, that work as a local VPN. You don't need to root your Android. I use NetGuard. https://www.netguard.me It's open source.
I wonder if this local vpn trick would work on iOS.
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You can't really compare some classic games to Google's product offering, there's a huge difference in the scale of value here.
Wheres the tipping point for when the product offering is enough for it to be ok to be supported by ads and data?
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I'm starting to get to the point where I wish people weren't allowed to call advertising supported products "free." I don't know what other term would be better, but I feel like users are paying some non-monetary cost.
Well, Play Store does explicitly mark the app as contaning ads.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
Serious kudos to Sega. This is how old games should be handled throughout the industry when possible. The likelihood of someone not already familiar with a title or franchise to play it is a function of A) its cost and B) how dated it is. Once a game is seeing marginal returns, it's kind of a very corporate mindset to try and suck it dry of every last penny. Especially when you view games as a form of art. I fear for…
I'm a little confused by your post. You started with "Serious kudos to Sega." and ended it with "I can only imagine Sega has ruined this very noble idea with intrusive ads and a payment scheme for removing them." Should they be applauded or shunned? Additionally, the games of your youth are special, partly because they were a part of your youth. There will likely be games of your children's youth that they hold near…