Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-38499925-20190212034853/@comment-31558898-20190213103929

Tommy299 wrote: Amrosa wrote: RattleSnack wrote:

Amrosa wrote:

RattleSnack wrote:

Amrosa wrote:

HULK7WGX wrote:

Amrosa wrote: Rafael F. wrote: I saw 5 ADs, as usual, for the daily 5GCs.. Then, two or three for a bit of cash and use some more, to speed up an car upgrade.. With that, I didn't saw ANY AD after race.. I don't know if one thing is linked with another, but I finished about 30% of each NASCAR LTS, without a single interruption.. Maybe, my luck change tomorrow.. They are limiting the number of autoplay ads that run for someone who has not opted out. If you want more, you can play ads as you always have.

As this is newly introduced they are testing different levels, so some will get more autoplays on a daily basis and some will get less. I bet the 'good time gang' in the 'secret tree house' will be fuming people can skim through 400 ads every hour. *chortle* It is capped at 190 currency ads for everyone... Germany is 10.... Lawyers. What has the limit of 10 (per device) got to do with lawyers? Their legal department's opinion of German Law regarding advertising to minors and the number of ads that they can run without facing liability under that law. Oh great! Maybe they should introduce some method of age verification for the rest of us then. The difference between getting 5GC per day as a player in Germany and 20GC elsewhere is huge when you multiply that over time. It‘s really unfair! Write to your representative in the Bundestag to suggest getting the law changed. That would probably be easier to do than instituting an age verification scheme that would likely satisfy the requirements of your law.

Or check with German user groups to see if anyone has successfully used VPN to get currency ads... though I don't know what the legality of using VPNs is in Germany and whether or not there would be any violation of the law if you tried to circumvent the limit. As someone working in the online advertising world in Germany I have not seen such a limit dictated by any german law. Child protection requiers to limit the aviliability of rated content ads to time frames that are usually not used by kids and you are not allowed to display direct offers to buy anything to kids but else I have not seen so far.

I'm also not aware of any limitations in regards to VPN usage in Germany.

My guess is, the lawyers from FM/EA took an easy way out as they have no true details on what is really meant by the German data and child protection laws. Yeah, i'm sure the legal department at EA haven't got a single clue about in game advertising.. they're only one of the biggest / most successful video game companies, just like the company I work for has only been developing drugs for well over a century, they haven't got a clue about the pharmaceutical industry.