Cheats their real customers: the ad-buyers

This shouldn’t be listed in the games section, not since RockYou took over. It’s an ad venue that happens to have some game elements interspersed.

Even if you think you know how ads are used to support free play, you probably don’t expect that not only do you have to watch ads both before and after any aspect of play, but they are included in the game timer. In other words, the timer starts with an ad, so your score is penalized by that amount of time.

Which brings us to the real reason why not to start playing this “game”: RockYou pockets the money from the advertising, but doesn’t actually support the venue at all. Even their own logo during start-up has been upside down for something like 6 months now! This means that the companies buying the ads are going to realize that their ads are glitchy, to the point that even when someone WANTS to click on their ad to learn more, most of the time it just freezes the screen or takes the player out of the game entirely without bringing them to the ad-buyers’ page. When that happens, and they all pull their ads, the game will disappear quickly. RockYou has no intention of doing even basic maintenance on the game now, so why bother once the advertisers wise up?

sweetoldbiddy about Hidden Objects: Gardens of Time