Commonplace

Monopoly GO

Played a bit in August 2023, when it's near the top of the Android revenue charts. Effectively a slot machine, but at least it has no ads! Funny that something with virtually no meaningful decisions can be so compelling. Numbers go up!

Gave it a full week, and by the last day I was getting seven consecutive pop ups when launching the game (six upsells and one “while you were away” report). That's too much! Still less annoying than one third party ad in my opinion, with Joe bad they've gotten. But a good reminder that some designer should be playing the first 5-7 sessions of a game regularly, looking for this sort of experience creep.