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posted by takyon on Monday March 11 2019, @06:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the admobbed-up dept.

Submitted via IRC for chromas

Google Play will let developers earn more money by having users watch ads in exchange for rewards

[In free-to-play games] you'll often be offered the ability to watch a video advertisement to receive some sort of bonus. This bonus can come in the form of double the in-game currency for X number of minutes, an extra chance at a particular level, or anything else that can benefit the user. Developers could add this feature with Unity Ads, but now Google has announced they are building it into the Google Play Billing Library or AIDL interface with only a few additional API calls. The featured is called a "rewarded product" and instructions on how to set it up can be found here.

This means the developer doesn't have to integrate any other SDK into their application or game which should reduce the work required to add this extra monetization opportunity. The feature is powered by Google's Admob technology so developers will have access to the large number of advertisers who they are working with.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @07:34PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @07:34PM (#812879)

    We live in a fucking dystopia.

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by DannyB on Monday March 11 2019, @08:11PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 11 2019, @08:11PM (#812898) Journal

    While technically that might be true, it will get worse.

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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:27AM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:27AM (#813047)

    Top search result for, "We live in a boring dystopia."
    https://imgur.com/gallery/RXstl [imgur.com]

    Specifically:
    https://i.imgur.com/A59QqVs.jpg [imgur.com]

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Tuesday March 12 2019, @04:03PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 12 2019, @04:03PM (#813327) Journal

    That's unfair, if the real world was like Brave New World, we'd be strung out on strangely powerful drugs that are the only legal kind, constantly driving from vacuous uninteresting movie to shallow, propoganda filled sporting events, be taught by our media to despise and pity everyone slightly different from us, treat everyone outside our shallow little world as barbaric savages, and the British Isles would be full of mentally broken weirdos.

    And if it was like Farenheit 451, we'd all be constantly in front of giant screens engaged in para-social relationships with celebrities who don't know us as people, disdain all academia, never walk anymore, and not even know or care what countries we're at war with.

    Those are just absurd.