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Why is everything being forced into a subscription model? $10 a month is about what most streaming services charge, but in this case, all you get is the privilege of playing a single iOS game uninterrupted by ads. There's no option to simply buy the game--it's either agree to hemorrhage $10 every month, or suffer through these ads. And let's talk about the ads. I fully support an ad-based model for a free game, and I wouldn't care if it were just banners that constantly ran at the top or bottom of the screen, or an occasional pop-up. That's not what we're dealing with here. These are full-screen videos that are at least 45-60s long that can't be skipped, and they run so frequently that you might spend more time watching them than playing the game. It's faster and far less irritating to simply force-quit and relaunch the app so you don't have to suffer through another one. Why does all this matter? Because beneath all these terrible publishing and marketing decisions is a fantastic, polished, and super fun game. I feel terrible trashing this game for things that have nothing to do with the game itself, but the free version is essentially unplayable this way, and $10 a month is outrageous. Do you think playing Cut the Rope ad-free should cost the same as an Apple Music subscription? Yeah, I don't either.

I used to play this game as a kid, I redownloaded it to see what it was like now. It’s sad that this game was killed by ads. 80% of the levels you complete are followed with ads. Restarting the game to skip the ads isn’t an option either because a “VIP” membership for 10$ monthly is shoved down your throat every time you start up the game. For one this game is marketed towards young children how can’t fully grasp the concept of micro-transactions, and secondly is that its TEN DOLLARS MONTHLY, that’s as much as any streaming service out now. The developers will never listen because this game has become their cash cow. Please fix your game. It’s sad that such a memorable game for so many children years ago has turned into this mess. If I had given this a rating years ago it would’ve been 5 stars, now its 1 star for everything I’ve mention in the previous. (Wish I could give it 0 stars). You’ve killed your game and player base because you got greedy. While this game will go down in history as one of the best phone games ever to come out, many who redownloaded it, like myself, will get to see the mess you turned it into. It’s quite sad that such a great thing has turned into a pile of waste that you force feed advertisements into.

As with many others reviewing this game, I too had the pleasure of enjoying Cut The Rope back in the day, before the greed of the higher ups and marketing decided that their game (loved by thousands) should be completely overrun by advertisements from others, and for their own products (this particular one is understandable). *But* The monthly “ad-free” option is absolutely unacceptable. The amount of money they receive from a *subscription* to remove advertisements instead of allowing their customers to just plain enjoy their game is insane. This game was a masterpiece, and still can be if they don’t completely destroy it by continuing to force their fan base to pay to play. You may as well start setting a price on the app, as any attempt to play the actual game is nearly impossible, especially the first 5 levels where if you’re not new (like me) you can breeze through them fairly quickly. I experienced 6 different advertisements in the first 5 minutes of playing. It was a game I enjoyed in the beginning and was satisfied at the end. This experience has me deciding I’m better off keeping that early memory, and finding something else to play.