Why can't you watch ads for rubies?

[Tibbs]

On mobile and on kongregate (although it seems to be bugged right now), you can watch ads for free rubies. Why cant you do that on steam? Rubies are a huge part of the game. It makes no sense that on mobile and kongregate, theres an option to watch ads for rubies, but on this version you cant.

[Etika loves Minecraft]

To me, it makes progression too fast. If you could get rubies that easily, you could easily x2 damage and make it pointless to actually play.

[Moon Flower]

Originally posted by Lawliet:

Rubies are a huge part of the game.

Not really. Hero and Ancient Souls are the huge part.

[NomiSaltium]

Originally posted by Patatatato:

To me, it makes progression too fast. If you could get rubies that easily, you could easily x2 damage and make it pointless to actually play.

I don't see a "skip 364925612763 days of progress" bonus in the shop. Where is it? But seriously though, the bonuses you can get with rubies aren't THAT powerful. Also, did you know that you can only purchase the "x2 damage" bonus once, instead of an infinite amount of times?

Besides, rubies are already pretty easy to obtain even without ads. On average, there's a clickable that appears once every 5 minutes on average, and there's a 44% chance that they will give 1 ruby if you click on them (and a chance of giving 2 rubies instead, if you get a ruby).

That's about 12 clickables per hour on average, with 5.28 of them giving rubies on average, so that's at least 5 rubies per hour on average, not counting the chance of double rubies. Also, that's about 126 rubies every 24 hours on average, not counting the chance of double rubies.

But, as I said, it's only an average, so it doesn't necessarily mean it will be like that for you.

[davidb11]

To add on to what Nomi said, you do know mercinaries can also get you a lot more rubies than you can get from buying right?

It's not even logical to use Ads for rubies when you can get about $100 worth of rubies from Mercinaries, well, not every day guarenteed, but it can get close.
Without a huge amount of effort.

[chris183]

the way the normal game is now between mercs doing ruby quest at demigod+ levels and revolc being very easy to level up to 50% chance for double rubies i dont see it too hard to get rubies

you only need them to revive mercs and maybe 50 or 100 for the start of a new transcendence anyway, i personally dont use rubies on qa's anymore cause i know merc quest can give more souls

im not a fan of adds, but i dont know how ch handles them cause i only play it on clickerheroes.com, some games i played on kongregate are way over the top with adds though and it turns me off to playing the game at all, even if they are optional they try to offer something you feel like you need

[TinDragon]

Mobile is able to gain rubies from ads, but they also gain way less from clickables than PC does. Costs and merc rewards are all multiplied by 10x except for clickable rewards, which are only multiplied by 4. The ads are there to bring ruby gains in line with PC.

Kongregate, meanwhile, offers like a single ruby per ad.