Video Ads

I recently opened my Call of War tab, and I saw the advertisement: "Let someone take you home tonight". That was all fine and well, I understand that Call of War has to make money, but this is where it goes too far. I did not know if to put this in Bug Reports and Issues or Suggestions/Criticism, so I will put in both: this advertisement started playing a video! And when I tried closing out the ad even though it will return in five minutes (not an exaggeration, it is true, time it), the audio for the video still played for another thirty seconds. Either this has to be changed or at least the audio should stop playing.

Thanks!

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If there are going to be video ad's , please make them muted until moused over or clicked upon.

That way, if you are in a quiet area, like a bedroom with your significant other sleeping, or in a library... and you forgot to turn down the volume, the video will start playing, but the sound will not cause a ruckus.

Also, the game is fairly low bandwidth, being able to be played just about anywhere. Video ad's popping up when someone is on a limited bandwidth device like a phone or tablet with just a small budget data plan will eat at the little data that have, potentially driving away a customer. Something to think about.

And PLEASE, PLEASE do not make the video ad's pop up a non-closeable confirmation box with the only option to close it being to press a button upon clicking the video's window close box. So many nefarious sites use such a technique to the installation of malware.... I personally would never come back to the site if those non-closeable boxes start popping up. ( Who knows what you just hiddenly ok'ed for installation or download. )

bbOOmmm wrote:

If there are going to be video ad's , please make them muted until moused over or clicked upon.

That way, if you are in a quiet area, like a bedroom with your significant other sleeping, or in a library... and you forgot to turn down the volume, the video will start playing, but the sound will not cause a ruckus.

Also, the game is fairly low bandwidth, being able to be played just about anywhere. Video ad's popping up when someone is on a limited bandwidth device like a phone or tablet with just a small budget data plan will eat at the little data that have, potentially driving away a customer. Something to think about.

And PLEASE, PLEASE do not make the video ad's pop up a non-closeable confirmation box with the only option to close it being to press a button upon clicking the video's window close box. So many nefarious sites use such a technique to the installation of malware.... I personally would never come back to the site if those non-closeable boxes start popping up. ( Who knows what you just hiddenly ok'ed for installation or download. )

True.

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