I have not even seen an intercept in a month. No option to play a video or anything. I play on both an ipad and iphone, and on both 3G and home wifi.
I’m a VIP player and as of today the intercepts are making me actually watch the ads anyway. About 50% of the time they fail and do nothing, resulting in no reward.
Because (I believe) Steam would take a cut of the ad revenue, and would have to approve the ad servicing provider used by D3. The Steam user base is almost certainly a small fraction of the overall user base – I’d bet that it’s no more than 10%, and probably more like single digits – and it’s not worth the expense of jumping through Steam’s hoops to have what will be a tiny revenue stream at best. Which is also (basically) the reason why intercepts aren’t available on the Kindle – Amazon demands control over the Kindle ecosystem and revenues generated from it, and the Kindle installed base isn’t big enough to justify dealing with that.
I think Apple might take a cut too, but the Apple market is so large that it’s worth the haircut to go along with whatever requirements they impose.
This has been my exact experience as well. With VIP: tons. Without it: maybe 3 a day, tops, and 2 of them won’t work.
which is a fine excuse for not fully putting it in.
there isn’t a great excuse for not putting it in as a vip bonus where you just get random bonuses from time to time with no adds.
such a mechanic already exists so it would just be a matter of disabling the rest of the shield intercepts which shouldn’t be super hard shrugs
personally at this point I would prefer them just letting the steam users migrate one way to a mobile device. maybe they will kill steam support at some point and let people migrate. though I am more expecting them to just kill steam support eventually and tell steam users they have to start over as a final we hate you to steam users as they clearly hate them.
I had this happening on an Android phone - clicking ad resulted in app crashing, needed to restart the app. I disabled the phone’s “Developer Options” setting and I’m now able to watch the ads and receive the rewards.
I’m on iOS and I’ve gone from a regular stream of intercepts to none for many days now. I’ve restarted my tablet and the game - nothing. Non VIP.
I was loving the intercepts - really wish I could access hem again. I did a support ticket but just got a message that they already knew there was an issue.