Post by Admin on May 31, 2014 4:30:15 GMT
I had a go at free sand dollars yesterday!
I had seen the Tapjoy advertisements before, but yesterday was my first earnest attempt to receive some of those free sand dollars, since earning them one by one is often such tedious work.
Previously, I had heard that it is possible to receive sand dollars by "liking" the Sea Stars page on Facebook twitter, and other social media. I actually "liked" all three with the computer -- but found out that you only get sand dollars for doing that operation on your phone -- even by doing it through a direct link from the game. But when I actually had an internet connection for the telephone, I did not see how to do this.
I had also heard of watching movies to get free sand dollars. But on my telephone no movies are offered.
The only possibility my telephone gave me to earn Sand Dollars is by choosing apps, games and other offers through tapjoy. I had tried this once before with no success -- but this time was different. After some trying around, I was able to earn twenty sand dollars by playing two free games for five minutes each.
So! I thought it would be a cinch to earn enough dollars to get Cthathy-Loo. I was wrong!
Here is a breakdown of the efficacy of trying to earn "free" sand dollars with Tapjoy:
1)
There are offers to buy something, or to get a trial membership (that requires you to give your credit card number "just in case"). Since money is involved here, as well as both Google and Tapjoy processing my credit card number, I passed.
2)
There are offers to download free games and to launch them. This sounds easy enough -- but all of these apps either require permission to use your protected phone memory, to view the accounts associated with your phone, and other such nondescript things as modifying the contents of your memory (in what way?); or else they are extremely boring and hard to master games -- which in turn require coins which you must obtain downloading yet more games through tapjoy -- joy upon joy within tapjoy. I gave up on these.
3)
The remaining possibility... well, there was a survey that would have given me lots of sand dollars, but I did not qualify for it.
So the only possibility left was to play the online games -- the ones that are really online and do not require you to download an app and are worth ten sand dollars each. I tried out a few games -- these are NOT games I want to be playing!!! But I did it for sand dollars. At least two of the games I tried to play include gory, ugly, sickening graphics and left me wanting to puke. One game (the one with the pumpkin) is a primitive game with a boy icon collecting falling candy icons and it does not respond to your taps and swipes half the time. The only game I might have played anyway prior to the mobile era is the bubbles game -- with colo(u)rful bubble icons at the top of the screen; having to pop them by shooting bubble icons from the bottom of the screen to form groups of at least three identical bubbles on top -- a boring but tolerable game. And finally a game I actually liked for its ease of play: you have all kinds of squares on a grid; and you have to unite them into one square. by "averaging" them into the squares in between. It is called a twinning game, and I guess requires a rudimentary understanding of symmetry, and you have to play to level five. The latter two are the only ones I would play again -- but of course, it looks like you only get to earn the sand dollars once with each particular game... I will try the twinning game to level ten and see what happens. On top of this, each of the online games lets you play one or two levels; then takes you to another screen, where you have to scroll and click "play again" to go to the next level. So... earning sand dollars like this takes much less time than earning them by playing Sea Stars -- but is by far more of a hassle. After submitting to this hassle, you still don't always get your sand dollars.
Actually I can't believe I am taking this much time to write about this experience, I am so disgusted by it.
Note: the problem with Tapjoy is not unique to Sea Stars. Tapjoy is not a trustworthy partner.
I had seen the Tapjoy advertisements before, but yesterday was my first earnest attempt to receive some of those free sand dollars, since earning them one by one is often such tedious work.
Previously, I had heard that it is possible to receive sand dollars by "liking" the Sea Stars page on Facebook twitter, and other social media. I actually "liked" all three with the computer -- but found out that you only get sand dollars for doing that operation on your phone -- even by doing it through a direct link from the game. But when I actually had an internet connection for the telephone, I did not see how to do this.
I had also heard of watching movies to get free sand dollars. But on my telephone no movies are offered.
The only possibility my telephone gave me to earn Sand Dollars is by choosing apps, games and other offers through tapjoy. I had tried this once before with no success -- but this time was different. After some trying around, I was able to earn twenty sand dollars by playing two free games for five minutes each.
So! I thought it would be a cinch to earn enough dollars to get Cthathy-Loo. I was wrong!
Here is a breakdown of the efficacy of trying to earn "free" sand dollars with Tapjoy:
1)
There are offers to buy something, or to get a trial membership (that requires you to give your credit card number "just in case"). Since money is involved here, as well as both Google and Tapjoy processing my credit card number, I passed.
2)
There are offers to download free games and to launch them. This sounds easy enough -- but all of these apps either require permission to use your protected phone memory, to view the accounts associated with your phone, and other such nondescript things as modifying the contents of your memory (in what way?); or else they are extremely boring and hard to master games -- which in turn require coins which you must obtain downloading yet more games through tapjoy -- joy upon joy within tapjoy. I gave up on these.
3)
The remaining possibility... well, there was a survey that would have given me lots of sand dollars, but I did not qualify for it.
So the only possibility left was to play the online games -- the ones that are really online and do not require you to download an app and are worth ten sand dollars each. I tried out a few games -- these are NOT games I want to be playing!!! But I did it for sand dollars. At least two of the games I tried to play include gory, ugly, sickening graphics and left me wanting to puke. One game (the one with the pumpkin) is a primitive game with a boy icon collecting falling candy icons and it does not respond to your taps and swipes half the time. The only game I might have played anyway prior to the mobile era is the bubbles game -- with colo(u)rful bubble icons at the top of the screen; having to pop them by shooting bubble icons from the bottom of the screen to form groups of at least three identical bubbles on top -- a boring but tolerable game. And finally a game I actually liked for its ease of play: you have all kinds of squares on a grid; and you have to unite them into one square. by "averaging" them into the squares in between. It is called a twinning game, and I guess requires a rudimentary understanding of symmetry, and you have to play to level five. The latter two are the only ones I would play again -- but of course, it looks like you only get to earn the sand dollars once with each particular game... I will try the twinning game to level ten and see what happens. On top of this, each of the online games lets you play one or two levels; then takes you to another screen, where you have to scroll and click "play again" to go to the next level. So... earning sand dollars like this takes much less time than earning them by playing Sea Stars -- but is by far more of a hassle. After submitting to this hassle, you still don't always get your sand dollars.
Actually I can't believe I am taking this much time to write about this experience, I am so disgusted by it.
Note: the problem with Tapjoy is not unique to Sea Stars. Tapjoy is not a trustworthy partner.
