I think the trend of fewer players in ANBs will continue. Probably something more like increasing daily gems from the monthly sub by 10 or 20 gems a day, or daily login gems of 10-20 a day. When we do see a replacement I doubt we'll see anything that comes close to replacing 250 gems/day.

I don't think we'll see a replacement for ad gems until after Gold, and probably not until after season 4 because they want to see if eliminating ad gems increases microtransactions during Gold and the end of Season 4 rankings push. Some will, of course, and maybe enough to keep the lights on, but probably not enough to add enough significant content to retain players. I think revenue from p2w microtransactions during ANBs is the studio's most promising source of revenue, but is currently over priced.Įxpecting players to pay as much for a single ANB as they would for, say, Wasteland 3 is probably not a viable long term model for a game with this little content and this small of a player base.

With revenue from ads down across all online platforms during the current pandemic, I suspect that the reduced revenue from ads was not enough to fund even a single developer position to maintain the software infrastructure required for the ads. Giving away 250 gems/day is probably not a sustainable business model for a game this small. Thinking about this over the last couple of days I have a few random thoughts. At one point, I had about 57k gems, I'm now down to about 42k (will get another 10k when the season ends). Recently, I've stopped purchasing even the $4 a month subscription and only buy the season pass. I've been doing story mode gem farming for years now. I didn't begrudge you guys getting so many ad boxes a day (okay, maybe a little), but I'm not going to miss them. I used to hear that people are getting like 50 ad boxes a day, and I would follow all the directions - clearing cache, resetting ad id - but never receive more than 4 to 5 ad boxes. Most people in the so called 'first world' will have many advertisers wanting to show ads to, but in a less developed country like Pakistan, where people are not considered heavy spenders online, most advertisers are probably not eager to show ads to. I almost never received more than 4 to 5 ad boxes a day, most of the time, I didn't even get that many.

My two cents on ad boxes: I don't think the ad box system was fair to begin with.

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