Comment by shredprez
3 years ago
Hard agree. "Monetization design" is almost universally a euphemism for casino-style addiction mechanics whose sole purpose is to habituate users to continue feeding quarters into the slot so the good feelings don't stop.
I pulled my (meager) rev contribution out of their subscription service following the IronSource acquisition and this makes me confident that was the right call. All due to respect to the fine folks working on the platform, but it's not something I'm interested in using anymore.
> I pulled my (meager) rev contribution out of their subscription service following the IronSource acquisition and this makes me confident that was the right call.
Yesterday, I took a 5 figure loss on my Unity position to get out from under this horror show. Still feel fantastic about it.
If you are going to have casino monitization, it is still better to consider it earlier than try to bolt it on at the very end.