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Sonic CD iOS Now Free-To-Play, But Infested With Pay To Remove Ads (UPDATE)

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Sonic CD has just gotten a strange, random update as of this article’s writing. Twitter has been the venue for news on this story, which is the discovery that Sonic CD is now free-to-play on iOS devices. However, there’s now a ton of ads in the game that you must pay to remove. All the tweets we’ve included, such as Christian Whitehead explaining that he has nothing to do with this change, is below.

UPDATE: TouchArcade has gotten in touch with SEGA. Sonic CD buyers having to re-pay money to get rid of ads is something that SEGA is aware of “We reached out to Sega for comment, and a representative says Sega is aware of the issue but has no further official comment at this time.”

This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.

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  1. Sega… please don’t do this. Not now. You’ve been somewhat kinda sorta been a decent-ish AAA publisher these last few months. (Barring any possible non-Sonic related fiascos I have no knowledge of) You looked better than Nintendo for a while, you got an pretty good streak going here.

    Don’t ruin it now.

  2. I feel like Arron’s going to fix this. They’ve spent so long building that relationship with fans and this, not only breaks the game (sorta), it screws over the fans that paid before.

    1. Yeah, only the App store puts SEGA in a tight position, either keep on paying the fees for having the app up, and keep on losing money, or remove it from the App Store entirely

  3. This is completely unexpected… I don’t know whether or not I want to take advantage of this and get the game, regardless of the countless ads; it’s not like I have free-range of using a network at all times.

  5. Just a small tidbit: this doesn’t seem to be effecting the Apple TV version (knock on wood) I know that amounts to a very small percentage of people but I thought I’d mention it. Aside from that, somebody better fix this. Otherwise this is just wrong.

    1. Yeah, it was removed because it wasn’t bringing in enough profit, now that it’s free*, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be back.

    2. Ikr, It’s only because the Apple app store pretty much forces devs to have their apps make a certain amount of money, Paid games pretty much don’t make enough money a month and they can either put alot of ads, make it pay to win, or take it off the app store.

      For some reason awhile ago, they took CD off the playstore, not sure why, either way, you can get CD on the amazon underground app for free

    3. You don’t remember that time they put ads in WIpeout HD’s loading screens? Or how about Deus Ex Human Revolution putting in billboards with ads like for the Star Wars blurays?

      1. I know what you’re trying to say SSJ…firstly: this is a different situation than what you’re comparing it to. Secondly: Intrusive ads don’t pop up in most console games. Third: the ads themselves weren’t what people were complaining about. It was that people who had already payed for the game had to pay AGAIN to get rid of the ads.

  8. They put out a update very very quickly that fixed it so people how actually brought the game never see any of this bullshit.

    1. The bizzare thing about this is that the game was picked by Apple for their free app of the week which is a priced game going free not a priced game going free to play, so it’s either that someone at Sega misunderstood what this promotion was about or instead wanted to use it to rake in some cash by putting ads in.

  9. A little off topic, but for those people on android you can still get sonic cd (and for people like me on the galaxy s7, sonic 1 and 2) off of amazon underground, however it doesn’t look like sonic cd is free on underground anymore.

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