So I made the mistake of discovering new games through Unity Rewarded ads and now my Unity ads account is permanently banned (all revenue 0’d). This is the latest after weeks of Unity Pro support silence.
As an indie who hasn’t seen the usual AAA games that can afford to advertise on this network, I found it educational (if nothing else) to install and try out these other games.
These are honest installs on my own phone because the ad seemed interesting. I can understand why this could be an issue for impression-based ads, but feel that it shouldn’t apply to installs.
What if I saw an ad while playing my own game where I was interested in the install? It’s hard installs that are paid for and a real install actually happened. It’s true that most of the games just don’t stick for me - but I ended up logging hours into quite a few other games I discovered.