Scrapyard Tycoon Idle Game

i am in love with this game. scrapyard tycoon is my whole life. or atleast it was. for a whole day. until… it happened. i was heartbroken. i opened my scrapyard tycoon gaming app and discovered that my progress. had been. reset.. i was almost back to the beginning of the game and i was a decent chunk in. the toll it took on my life was disastrous. i opened scrapyard tycoon because i was incredibly depressed and knew it would fix it. but it didn’t. i saw what happened and immediately began screaming “it’s not a good day, it’s not a good day.” i think this is due to the fact that the developers only update once every few months… please… i beg of you, pay more attention to this masterpiece. Thank you, pissbabeie.

I sat down with a stopwatch today while playing this game, and discovered that a random ad plays once every minute and thirty seconds. These ads take about twenty seconds to skip the two screens necessary to get back to the game, which means that even if you ignore the constant prompts to play an ad to triple your offline earnings, double your crane speed, obtain missing materials, spin the wheel, etc, you’ll still be spending almost 20% of the time this game is open watching an ad. It’s really a shame, because the cycle of upgrade equipment/scrap cars/earn money is extremely satisfying, but the actual experience of playing this game is so thoroughly frustrating due to constant ads that I’ll be deleting the app. If it weren’t for this problem, I would be happy to choose to watch ads for tangible benefits in the game, in fact would be very likely to do so, except for the fact that as soon as that ad is done, another is going to play right behind it for nothing. The ad strategy of this game is ridiculous, inexcusable, and predatory, and exposes the fact that this developer has fallen under the same spell as nearly every other mobile app developer - that of raking in all the short-term profits of excessive ads they force on their customers until the customer gets fed up and deletes the game instead of attempting to create a fun and rewarding experience for their players. Shame on them.

There’s an Advertisement for absolutely everything in this game. If you want to get anywhere, you’re going to have to watch countless ads each 30 seconds or longer. I’m not sure what it is about these idle games and this formula, but the amount of ads get so crazy that you’ll find yourself watching more ads than actually playing the game. Don’t want to watch the ads? Your progress will be so painstakingly slow that there’s no point in even playing. Altogether this gives you the incentive to buy the ad free upgrade. I suppose that’s a great business model, but what it does is show everyone that this game is all about the money and less so about the actual game. So what happens when you do buy the ad free upgrade? Well now the game just becomes a tedious click feast. Click the car, click to salvage the car, click the icons that used to be ads, click again for their rewards. Click the workers and click to the button to enable them to work faster for 5 minutes. Repeat those clicks for each and every worker you have that salvages different parts (like one for tires and another for metal). Click the orders, click the crashing stations, click to que up crafts. Oops now the next car is ready so click that and click salvage again... my point is that there is no break. You’ll be tediously clicking on everything and every ad reward over and over again that there’s really no time to just enjoy the game. If they would include something like, oh I don’t know, an “accept all” button, that would be nice. Or maybe just give us the perks we paid for? In the end, this game just became tedious and boring. The advertisement driven gameplay is a huge let down and clearly shows where the priorities of the company lie. Steer clear of this wreck.