like many people I enjoyed the game initially. The updates causing the forced ads even make sense, if the ads had been properly formatted to fit screen ... And if they were less intrusive. The $3 to get rid of them is a lot by most older app standards, and decently reasonable for modern. Certainly better than the apps that have subscription to stop getting ads. It's just hard for me to remove the bad taste in my mouth over the intrusiveness before removal.