Thursday, February 13, 2014

Giving Feedback: When Good Ads Go Bad

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Above you see two images of one of my favorite games – Football Flick Kick. FFK is one of those “freemium” Apps that has an ad banner installed on it, but you can pay anywhere from $.99 to a few bucks to have them removed. In this particular case, the developer didn’t get the ad banner quite setup right, in fact, it’s not even close to correct.
The first image shows a banner-less screen showing all the information. Your score, the multiplier and number of balls left to complete the kicks. The image on the right is with the latest update installed, where you can no longer see your score or the multiplier. Not exactly the end of the world, but if you look carefully at the ad itself, you can see that even the ad isn’t sized correctly.
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Now, looking at the top of the first image again, you can see the designer left ample room for the ad banner to come across the screen above the goal post and out of the way of the score and multiplier areas. Unfortunately, this didn’t translate to the final version. That said, instead of posting a negative review, take the time to email the developers of these great games with glitches and let them know what you found. They will thank you for it.

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