I'm 99% computer. I use my phone in bed for St. Pat's - lol - and for the first week of starting a new city, and I might use it if, say, my internet goes down, or I'm out of town and need to let someone know something. I updated/checked my mobile version, and I'm apparently in the "no ads" group.
But here's the deal: I budget $40 per week for this game. For certain events, I spend a little more, so in the past 10.5 months with my new Carthage city, I've averaged $45 per week. Assuming that continues over the next 8 weeks, that's $2340 per year. (Don't judge. lol. I work from home, so no lattes and lunches and wardrobe and transportation, and my hobbies are my dog, cooking equipment and ingredients, and this game.)
While the current test - and probable implementation - doesn't affect me now, I no longer feel confident that Inno isn't going to change things around so that computer players also are held hostage at $360 per year to drop ads, regardless of spend. The day that happened, I'd quit.
So what does this mean for me? This game is "long haul" for me. I've played for more than six and a half years, though took some breaks in there. When I spend money on events, it is an
investment in the game for the future. Some buildings that I get lots of, they're for eventual aging up. Since at this point, I feel like further investment isn't safe - that they're likely to do something that is an insta-quit for me - it's not a good bet to invest any further.
I'm going to stop spending and see how this all shakes out. The bad thing is that my playstyle requires diamonds for healing upper era troops, at the very least, so it might mean I may need to go ahead and take a break and check back in a year or something; hopefully not, but will have to see. The good thing is, it'll drop me to $38/week, $2 per week under budget for the year when the year finishes out.
I just bought a desktop game that has been on my wishlist for a while at a particular game site; hope it's fun.
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