mobile game ads make me fucking depressed. it's the same shit as the elsa spiderman videos and whatnot all over youtube. any artistic passion has been completely wrung out, it's just misleading assembly line nonsense designed to get the most clicks as efficiently as possible
the thought that this is the dominant force in mobile games. the thought of how many man hours must be poured into all these cookie cutter games designed purely to generate microtransaction revenue. it fills me with a deep existential dread
lots of non-mobile games can be boiled down to a skinner box, but so many of these mobile game ads proudly wear it on their sleeve. everyone memed on the mafia city ads but so many ads are just like "look, if you do task you will get upgrade. this is the entire game. install now"
and half the time those "gameplay video" ads cynically demonstrating that the game contains an upgrade system aren't even using footage of the actual game, because i guess there's just no regulation to prevent false advertising