Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25660508-20141224075246/@comment-26715739-20151004093337

RR3 Michael P wrote: FM know of this problem, they posted on their FB page:

"We identified a technical issue with the in-game Ad system, which prevented a number of players from being able to play the game. As a precaution, we have temporarily disabled some in-game advertisements, including the Free Gold offers.

These offers will return as soon as the Team is confident that the issue is resolved." What's most interesting about this (in terms of their claim to have "switched it off") is that it is still possible to get the gold ads (and access to the free gold offers) simply by re-installing the app.

BUT... they only seem to reappear after you've reloaded your save game progress. So when you immediately restart there's no free gold and no ads, they only appear once you've contacted the servers are got your progresse back.

And of course the ads and free gold option in the store all disappears again the next time you start up the app.

Still - if you have an unlimited download limit and can do other things while it is reinstalling, you can still pick up a few extra gold each day. I usually only have time (and more importantly bandwidth) to do this on the weekends.

So it's a bit of an inconsistent message in terms of "we've switched it off" versus what we can actually see happening. In the meantime I'm sure they're happy that a few long-term players are working to increase their "RR3 has been downloaded xxxxx times" count.

I still think FM would want to return to a position where they can show ads again - I would have thought it's a major source of revenue for them - but the way this issue is playing out it does leave a few question marks.