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I was puzzled because I have a white heart on here even though I have a premium upgrade. I checked out some other players and found that it seems to be the kind of sunburst icon that might show payments, as those with a basic upgrade have a white one and those with premium have a black one.

to be honest i am so glad to see as a premium member, no adds

I think I've mentioned this a while back. But my heart is white, and I've had a subscription for as long as I can remember. Does this mean subscriptions do not qualify for no adds?

Just a heads up for everyone, the process of getting the ad system approved is rather awkward. It can take days, it can take weeks. We have to add the code to enable ads so we can get approved but we can't set up the proper controls until the ads are approved. All that means ads might suddenly appear, and they might appear in crazy places or to everyone, or too many. Once I have the ability to, I will make sure things are set up properly.

We have a final launch date for ads. Ads will start appearing in the game on Monday Sept. 29th.

If you have made a purchase to help support the game in the past 30 days you will not see any ads. That includes subscriptions.

The ads are going to be more intrusive than I had hoped, but the reality is that covering the server costs will require that. You will be seeing ads that stick to the bottom of your screen and scroll with you. There will be ads that appear to the left or right of the main game body.

There also will be video ads that appear in the lower right of the screen. I am least happy about these. Thankfully they load in muted and they can be closed to make them go away. Look it sucks to have to have these but talking to our ad services team they tell us that the video ads can make up over half the ad revenue. We kind of have to have them to make this all work. I don't like, it I don't want it, but I also need to keep the game in the black or we won't be having a game.

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You should not be seeing popup/full page covering ads. This is something they offer and was turned on in testing initially. I told them absolutely not. If you see any thing like that please take a screenshot and let me know. It is not acceptable to me to have that kind of ad on our game.

They also where trying out ads that go in-between the white boxes that make up the main body of the horse page. These also are not supposed to be there. If you see them please let me know.

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There is going to be a breaking in process where we find the balance between having enough ad coverage to cover server costs but not so much as to be off putting. If something is not working just leave us a polite note letting us know what the issue is and we will work with the Playwire team to fix it.







Also just wanted to include a word on ad blockers. To start we won't be including any "Please disable your ad blocker" type messaging. Getting these ads up is going to be a bit of a messy process, so I think it is only fair to allow some flexibility.

Once we have everything dialed in we will be including one of those messages. It will be one of the "continue without disabling" types though, not a hard lock out of the site.

Is there a choice on what types of ads appear? I usually play with my 10 year daughter watching over my shoulder, and so far, I am seeing a lot of ads for horror movies and porn sites. I don't mind having ads, just wish they were more family friendly and appropriate for what the game is. If this is something that is being worked on, then I simply won't let her play with me for a while.

Question: do y'all get compensated purely off the number of ads that get loaded, or is there extra if, for example, some bored person clicks on the ads?