u/Vahan_Penguin

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to run some app install ads for my new mobile game, which is in Armenian.

My Google Play Store page is bilingual (English and Armenian), and I tried writing my actual ad headlines in English to get around the rules. However, Google is still rejecting the campaign for "unsupported language".

Has anyone dealt with this "unsupported language" issue before? Is there any workaround on Google Ads, or is it just a dead end for regional languages?

If I have to move my budget elsewhere. Has anyone used either of those for promoting localized mobile games?

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I want to apologize right away. When I posted here a while ago, I received some helpful feedback and I promised I wouldn't post about my game here again because I didn't want to spam the community.

I feel really bad about breaking that promise, but I am honestly stuck. I recently got a single 1-star review on Google Play with no text,  and it's driving me crazy because I have no idea what went wrong.  Because this game is made specifically for the Armenian community (it has 8 small Armenian word and puzzle games in it), I can't get feedback from general Android forums to know what is broken. I don't know if the app is crashing, if the word puzzles are wrong, or if the UI is completely broken, or ads too much.

To the mods: if this is too much or if breaking my promise is not okay, please feel free to delete this right away. I completely understand.

I am not looking for downloads or money. I just genuinely want to know how to fix the app and make it actually work for the people it was built for. If anyone has a few minutes to test it on an Android device and let me know what needs fixing, I would be incredibly grateful.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fluctu8studio.armgames

Thank you, and I apologize again for posting here twice.

I just saw a post here that got me thinking about how, over the last few years, the political situation in Armenia has generated a lot of new slang words and neologisms. It seems like a very interesting subject for modern anthropological or linguistic study, how people create derogatory or descriptive names based on specific political events.

Here are a few prominent examples:

• "Pizzayaker" (Պիցցայակեր / Pizza-eater): Originally used to describe opposition protesters, stemming from claims/videos of protesters being fed pizza at rallies, implying they are paid participants.
• "Zombi" (Զոմբի): Used by the opposition to describe blind, uncritical followers of Nikol Pashinyan who support him regardless of the circumstances.
• "Usapark" (Ուսապարկ / Backpack): Refers to members of the ruling Civil Contract party. It references the famous backpack Pashinyan wore during his 2018 march, implying these MPs have no independent political value and are just "backpacks" carried by the Prime Minister.
• "Kukuruz utogh" (Կուկուրուզ ուտող / Corn-eater): This term originated from pre-election campaign videos where Pashinyan and his teammates were filmed eating boiled corn in a bus while traveling to villages. The opposition turned it into a pejorative term to mock the ruling party's populist style and those who support them.

Has anyone seen a database, article, or thesis collecting these terms? It would be interesting to see how many of these words have entered daily usage and how they reflect the polarization of our society. Or we can collect here.

Do you remember any other terms like these from the last few years? Please write them in the comments so we can compile a bigger list.

Hey everyone,

I’m super frustrated with the Play Console right now and wanted to see if anyone else is dealing with this, or if I just got unlucky.

About 2 months ago, I published a game. I got the required testers, but honestly, almost no one actively opened it or kept it installed. Despite that, the 14-day timer finished and Google approved it for Production with zero issues.

Fast forward to today: I just finished a much better, more polished project (it has 6 mini-games). I got my 12 testers opted in, waited the 14 days, but this time I got hit with the rejection: "Your game requires more testing... Run your closed test with at least 12 testers for 14 more days."

Did Google shadow-update their AI reviewer recently to make it way stricter? It feels completely random that a worse game passed easily 2 months ago, but this one got blocked.

For those of you who have successfully passed this screen recently, what is the actual formula to satisfy the bot?

1. Do my testers actually need to open it every single day?
2. How many minutes do they need to play per session?
3. Do I absolutely need to push an update during these next 14 days to prove I'm "active"?

Any advice on how to game the bot would be highly appreciated. Thanks!