> And since we are at it, a little side notice... If I understand correctly, you are using the Google Ads platform. Guess what? I see that platform used in many "for kids" smartphone games... and 99% of the time those don't get ads for fake medicines, questionable sites, online casinos and such. Why should WE get them???
I have skimmed the online available documentation for the Google Ads platform and I see that it provides a lot of filter options, both for target users age, type of content shown (for example, it provides a filter to block suggestive content) and so on. Please enable them …
and yes, since google ads work by highest bidder and dubious adds always try to pay more than "legit" businesses due to their business model, if you don't tighten your checks you'll get them
@SPArchaeologist-様 look, if we're just 0.0015% or whatever, if everyone on meta enabled adblock, they wouldn't even notice, and this is not being said in jest.
@Magisch that I could buy. Then, let me translate it: It is fine to have 13years old users get casino and dating sites ads because it would be less profitable to filter?
IMO every user should be educated about ads on the internet by their parent or legal guardians, it is not our responsibility to pre-emptively care for SE users' exposure to such stuff, it's their parents'
The technique of marketing fear of loss, gambling, reinforced addictive behavior loops, and in techniques to children is a multibillion dollar industry at this time
there are books and talks and workshops that teach you how to best monetize each age group
I don't think it's good for any game to involve money transactions at all beyond the initial purchase at the store, and that is yet another thing for parents to educate their kids about
@Magisch my kids are 9 and 6, they get tons of ads in the free games they play and learned to ignore them all, never asked for us to buy them anything. :)
Fortnite's model is bloody genius. You wouldn't pay $10k for a videogame. $10k for virtual boxes with 1% of containing your favorite new skin? No-brainer.
This includes welcome-back boxes if you've been away for a while with unnaturally high chance of cool shit in it just to get you back into the loop if you dropped out
because, after all, if you get one on your first go you might as well go for more, yeah?
Excuse me. Next loot box item reduces the size of your goal by up to 50%, with diminishing returns on size. Want a bigger reduction? Buy the more expensive boxes
@StephanS You are not. I know they removed Animal Crossing Pocket Camp from the stores in Belgium because the premium currency cookies in game were considered gambling.
@Autar no, no, you gotta offer them both. Boosts the purchase rate of $1 boxes because they seem much fairer. Nobody ever buys the 10$ guaranteed win because it' sooo expensive.
@202324 it's not that far-fetched, when you think about it. Suppose you have a cohort of players and you're not tiering them into paying/non-paying the way EA did. You really do not want somebody in there that's virtually impossible to beat no matter how much money you throw at it
the obvious answer is to tier mmr based on recent mtx, but crappier games don't necessarily have the player count to do this and not have gigantic queues
I have no patience for any kind of entertainment that makes me genuinely mad, it means it's bad and not fun, just don't do it and write a review to that effect if possible
@SébastienRenauld sure, you can also talk about the mechanics of increasing formula sale by giving out just enough free formula to make mothers stop breastfeeding so they have to buy more to avoid their babies starving
(which is something nestle likes to do in developing countries)
read some books or manga or illustrated novels, watch movies or tv shows or anime or cartoons, listen to music of various genres, and these are just the things you can do at home!
watch other people play games and relive their experiences but don't spend any money of your own, as an alternative
the trick with the formula is that if mothers don't breastfeed, they lose the ability to. The way nestle does it is marketing it as safer then breastmilk and better for babies, and then giving just enough supply for free to make it so the mothers can't anymore
and because the water is not exactly clean and breastmilk is, that is also blatantly false. So they're profiting of thousands of babies dying of preventable disease by their own hand.
@SébastienRenauld true story: great programmer gets registered at SO because users of the programming language s/he invented invited them to. Was just leeching and spending their time in stuff adding value to them.
what if we put all evil people who ruin everyone else's lives into their own personal matrices where they can fulfill their heart's desires while shielding others from suffering they'd otherwise inflict on them? hmm…
I wouldn't recommend equilibrium itself for the movie; it's for the plot, and you need to take out all the fancy gun-kata stuff and the petty rivalry. The giver, on the other hand, focuses on all the worthwhile plot elements re: feeling removal
I think latency is gonna be in the range of 30-80ms, no idea about breaks, probably same as 3g mobile internet
for games it should be tolerable
if alternative cost several times more, I might consider how important FPS games are to me
some of my friends live in interesting places where due to various reasons normal wired internet is not available (or costs as much as corporate connection plans) so they've been using some kind of 4G LTE and gaming with them is rather frustrating
it remains to be seen what the real connection parameters will be, for now we can only speculate based on sats positioned in entirely different orbit ranges
but the fact that availability will improve dramatically is obvious
does smoke bot delete its messages if it sees the post deleted in that 2 minute window?
