Bug - Normal Ad Reward System Faulty and Unreliable

[Skulgan]

EDIT 7/12/2026: This is no longer an issue with prize fight streak restoration, but rather the entire ad reward system as a whole.

In essence, attempting to watch an ad as an alternative to paying Theonite has a chance to do nothing, regardless of connection quality. This can occur when watching an ad to restore a Prize Fight Streak, refresh the list of Prize Fight opponents, or the Viewing Parlor reward system. I am not sure what is making it so finicky besides maybe my ad preferences (mentioned below), but it is an incredibly frustrating issue to have. For some systems, if the reward for watching an ad fails to go through, the cooldown doesn't reset and you're welcome to watch another ad until it does (i.e., Prize Fight refreshing and Viewing Parlor), but for restoring a streak, it can fail and then also go on cooldown.

 

[Skulgan]

Additional notes:

As an advocate for privacy, my Google Ad preferences are to remove any and all personalization features, meaning that I pretty consistently get served the same five or six ads from Google's systems - Vinted, Tiktok and some alternative versions of it that I assume are scams, WhatNot, WebToons, and then some odds and ends here and there - so maybe there's some kind of system in place to filter out illegitimate ad watchers (like bots or something) and not having ad personalization on or watching the same ad multiple times trips it? Not sure.

 

[Skulgan]

Update:

It finally worked after the time turned over. Not sure what exactly changed besides that though.

 

[Skulgan]

Update 2:

It's broken again.

 

[Skulgan]

Update 3:

This entire ad reward system is haunted and I've revised the initial forum post to reflect that.