Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26829117-20160522124555/@comment-26249703-20160522232607

By the way, I do apologise to non-paying users if it does end up having negative consequences for them in terms of Gold earned. Hopefully most of you can understand the inequality of this treatment and agree something should be done about it: hopefully for people that have made IAPs to have the same rights in terms of Gold ads as the rest of the users.

While evidence is starting to build in a convincing manner as to the theory of IAP Vs. No IAPs, there are still a few outliers that I'm curious about: people that made IAPs getting 20 GC a day and people that get 20+ Gold a day. There's a reasonable expectation for trolls or people (perhaps EA/FM spies? :P) to skew the data and make it ambiguous, but I also expect some honest people are in a beneficial situation.

So, lucky you! I was wondering, if any of you fall in that category read this message, whether there's anything special about your account that could explain this, for example:

I hope to hear from you guys and hopefully FM will give an explanation, or help us all! It would be unfair to non-paying users if they slashed their ads, on top of being unfair to the paying ones for them being slashed for a while. On top of that, it would be going back on their last update's release notes where they claimed they were making more ads available (unless they were white-lying and referring to ads for servicing and upgrades). Thanks for the voting so far, to get to the bottom of this.
 * Relatively uncommon device? (Amazon Kindle, Blackberry, etc - iPhones and Android devices will be common)
 * Old version of the app? (perhaps pre-v4.0, maybe pre-v.4.2, but definitely pre-v4.3.1)
 * Uncommon location? (whether in a remote area, or a location with a smaller representation in the user base)
 * Special trick being used? (Interested in what it would be, but you definitely don't have to reveal it)