Gross ads for what should be nice games....

last year

True confession: I play too much Candy Crush. And in doing so, I get inundated with ads I must see to get more lives and such. Lately there seem to be a whole bunch of them that I find disturbing to gross.

The disturbing include the poor king who is facing fire or floods and certain death unless you make the matches fast enough to save him. Not my idea of a good time, but ok. I get it.

Then came along the home decorating game where you are to select the paints and fabrics and such which is judgy enough to tell you that your choices failed. Well, ok.

Then came this weird version of solitaire where you need to play the cards to find the tools to keep freezing and starving waif from dying of cold, smoke inhalation and more. Solitaire? A game that's supposed to straightforward, relaxing and comforting in its repetition??

But now there's a really gross version with the girl picking her nose and eating it, vomiting, the room overrun with rats and other detritus, a toilet that's disgusting and more. Please make it stop. I don't play these games to get disgusted. I play the games as an escape from the disgusting!

I know I sound like an old f@rt, which I am for sure, but what on earth is this world coming to???

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Uptown Gal
last year
The World is coming to (already arrived) to greed and lies and nastiness. And, sadly, it will

get worse and that is what we are now teaching our young.
satine100
last year
i agree with the op. I hate the ads showing some poor freezing mother and child or some lost child trying to keep warm in an unheated room. I hate seeing those ads. I wondered how to voice my opinion.
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dedtired
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Annie, i am right there with you. Level 4593. I watch the gross ads to get boosts. I certainly dont buy boosts. I have learned to simply look at something else when the ad starts. The worst one is the prisoners climbing up a wall to,free the scatnily clad women in prison cells, chased by the slobbering one eyed monster.
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No ads on Pokemon Go. Thank goodness!
Ally De
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That would be enough to make me stop voluntarily spending any time on those things. I just can't watch children or animals in misery. It's not "fun", nor entertaining for me in any way. It really bothers me that this is what passes for entertainment anymore, but I suppose that's just sign 957 that I'm getting old.
nicole___
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Children and animals suffering....what nightmares are made of!
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
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I agree that ads that are offensive to someone can be upsetting. Is there no way to provide feedback on them? I play most games offline, and I believe you can find any number of Candy Crush clones that you could download and play offline
olychick
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Probably think about who's programming those things for all the older women who play them. Barely out of their teen boys...I suspect. I don't play so haven't seen them but kids growing up playing video games with no other life experience might explain a lot.
Fun2BHere
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@Annie Deighnaugh, what synchronicity. I was just thinking yesterday about those ads and wondering about who is the target. I would never download a game based on suffering. I understand the target for the zombie apocalype themes, but not the wronged pregnant wife who freezes to death or the couple living in squalor.

ETA: I don't play Candy Crush, but the ads are on every game I do play.
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last year
I used to play Candy Crush but started playing Fishdom two years ago and now that's all I play. It's also a match 3 game. It has its means of making money but it's ad free and the graphics and themes are really cute.
Annie Deighnaugh
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I tried posting a comment on the candy crush facebook page, but it seems to have disappeared.
arcy_gw
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I keep trying to comment but really given the ugly that plays out on the news...threats, abject selfishness, terror--there should be no real surprise in what Americans find entertaining these days.
Annie Deighnaugh
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Interesting...not sure if it's coincidental or not, but since I posted my gripe on the candy crush FB page which was then disappeared, I've not seen a single one of those animated games ads...

I'm certainly happy for that!

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