April: Jigsaw Puzzle by Number

Five stars for the game concept, NO stars for the ad experience. I guess my problem is not with this game in particular, but rather the game I landed on when I had reached my fill. I had already seen the comments about the “ad issues”, but decided to still try it out. I actually don’t mind ads most days, and understand completely developers utilizing this method to get their product out there. What I DON’T understand, and will NEVER understand is when developers saturate the game experience with these ads. It would be one thing if there was a chance of it being successful at all. But when you are bombarded by ads over and over again, and it’s the SAME ad every 20 seconds, how is that effective? If I didn’t find the game ad interesting enough the first time to download, then I’m not going to find it so the 3rd, 4th, or the 24th time; and no, forcing us to watch the same ad, or any ad for longer than all the other times you show it isn’t going to do it either. My point is simply this… I don’t know who is paying whom, or who is spending their money thinking they will have a chance for more people to see their ads, but the way they go about it is totally and completely ineffective. I downloaded this game because it looked like something I would enjoy. It has great potential. I also will delete it after only trying once to enjoy it because of the reasons mentioned. There just must be a better way to offer games to people who can’t pay other than this. Like I said, I understand ads, but at least advertise in a way that at least makes sense.

I’ve enjoyed this app early on but what I don’t understand is what’s with all these subscription services on coloring type apps. I do a coloring app 100% free but most others including these jigsaw apps you have to pay a fee monthly to unlock rest of content. And that app adds content daily. I’d gladly pay a one time fee to unlock everything. That’s how much I’ve enjoyed this app. I gave it 4 stars only because if this subscription fee. I’m not paying $10 a month to unlock everything. And even playing free, you have to spend 50 coins to unlock certain puzzles, and coins are evidently hard to come by in this app. So then you’d have to pay money to get more coins if you run out. I get you need to make money but that’s why you have ads and should have an option to pay a one time fee instead of a subscription. I guarantee you you’d make enough money going that route and maybe lower the coins to from 50 to like 20-30 even would be better. I just don’t have the money to afford 9.99 a month for what is a cross between a coloring and jigsaw app.

I can already tell this is going to be a time sink for me, in a good way. I love games that keep me from endlessly scrolling through social media, and this one definitely fits the bill. This company has a way of making games that seem specifically tailored for me. I would love to see a daily picture feature like in the oil painting game, and I know it’s early days, but I’m already eager for more galleries because I just know I’m going to blow through the ones available!