Too many pop-ups
Plus one more, all within 30 seconds.
Forum Discussion
Is it just me or do the pop-ups seem less frequent?
The Hyperdrive pop-up was triggered by looking where to farm Raddus. It used to do this only for Hux while I was farming him, but not the other characters I was farming. Both are characters that aren’t in the bundle. It’s not the first character I farm every day. So CG must have code that targets these characters for the pop-up, meaning they’re capable of targeting their pop-ups to specific customers, but choose to give offers to customers that would only lose the customer money.
The energy bundle isn’t a good deal, either. 600 / 50 * 120 = 1440. CG is robbing customers of 540 energy. Players who do the math just learn that offers from CG are always bad, and give them more incentive to ignore the pop-ups, and whatever is on offer in the store. Players who don’t get robbed. Many deals in the store and elsewhere are like this.
Maybe monetizing the game in a way that seems less predatory would gain CG more business than they lose. Imagine players excited to see a pop-up because it meant a great deal was coming their way. Maybe they’d be trained to stop and look at them, rather than training them that they’re a worthless irritant that should be dismissed as fast as possible.
The Hyperdrive pop-up was triggered by looking where to farm Raddus. It used to do this only for Hux while I was farming him, but not the other characters I was farming. Both are characters that aren’t in the bundle. It’s not the first character I farm every day. So CG must have code that targets these characters for the pop-up, meaning they’re capable of targeting their pop-ups to specific customers, but choose to give offers to customers that would only lose the customer money.
The energy bundle isn’t a good deal, either. 600 / 50 * 120 = 1440. CG is robbing customers of 540 energy. Players who do the math just learn that offers from CG are always bad, and give them more incentive to ignore the pop-ups, and whatever is on offer in the store. Players who don’t get robbed. Many deals in the store and elsewhere are like this.
Maybe monetizing the game in a way that seems less predatory would gain CG more business than they lose. Imagine players excited to see a pop-up because it meant a great deal was coming their way. Maybe they’d be trained to stop and look at them, rather than training them that they’re a worthless irritant that should be dismissed as fast as possible.
