AVOID: Ads & IAP & constant crashing – Zen Koi Classic Review

Zen Koi has had premium currency in-app-purchases (IAP) for as long as I've had the app. A forced update added advertisements which disrupt the flow and kill the zen vibe that was the game's main selling point. Now, the fullscreen ads are making the app constantly crash to desktop. They destroyed their own game in order to bombard it with ads. It's nearly unplayable in its current state. PS: If you can't even load the game, there is no excuse for giving it a rating higher than the lowest possible. A game that can't even be played should get the lowest possible marks. UPDATE: Unfortunately, it turns out that the ads for pearls (rewarded ads) are the ones causing most of the crashing. If the game only crashed when the rewarded ads ran, you could avoid the crashing by not playing the ads and missing out on those pearls. However, the crashes seem to be caused by the game contacting the server, so when the server is flaky, the game crashes constantly whether you avoid rewarded ads or not. LandShark contacted me. "For Zen Koi, you can get rid of interstitial ads with any purchase in the game, even the cheapest but rewarded ads you can still use it to earn pearls." He does not deny that the ads are causing the crashes. He gives no indication that LandShark has any plans to fix it. His only suggestion - that I give his company money for a constantly crashing app full of ads and IAP - would not solve the problem. Caveat emptor.
Review by player58z on Zen Koi Classic.