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This sounds like a good solution to helping cover the costs associated with free accounts. I do like that members who have recently spent money on the game will be excluded.

It sounds like a fair way to cover your costs whilst still allowing people to play for free if they can’t or don’t want to pay to play.

This is the first time I have wished we had a shocked reaction. Not because I think it's a bad idea, but because I know how hard you fought to avoid this.

Thank you for the heads up.

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.

Ads are now live on all servers. We will be working in the future with Playwire to see if we can improve the aesthetics as they are rather rough right now, but we need to get things started before we can make any of those changes.

Thanks so much for letting me know I will see if we can get that fixed.

We should not be having any popup ads and nothing should be appearing in the main section of the screen. When you get a chance would you mind taking a screenshot of what you are talking about to help me understand what the issue you are experiencing is?