Will my ad succeed?

Hello, I am working on a Pacific Game which is nearly ready for release.
Would this ad succeed?

In my opinion, the background should be way less saturated so it’s easier to read the text. Another thing is that there is way too much text and the font doesn’t look too appealing, especially when it’s hard to read with that background.

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(super good advice here!)
I would not click on this ad, and here’s why;
you want to have saturation in your advertisement to make it attention-grabbing, and I’d say that your ad is OK in that area. BUT, there’s usually no point in saturation/attention-grabbing when you can’t showcase elements of your game.
ā€˜Okay, so how do I fix this?’
So to fix the unreadable text, I would firstly narrow the advertisement down to 3 talking points to add simplicity and size up the text for readability. The talking points should be things that you believe makes your game unique or things that spawn interest in the people viewing the ad. (ex. using your mind is expected when playing a video game, so that really isn’t a good talking point)
ā€˜It still feels like it’s missing something…’
You should also use a backdrop of a aircraft carrier to point out that the game’s based on pacific warfare, it tells more of a story then just reading ā€˜Pacific Warfare.’.
I’d also dim down the backdrop of the aircraft carrier, so the text will stay easy to read and you might want to increase the saturation of the backdrop as well if it feels too dull.

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It’s not a bad ad! Here’s my honest feedback on this:

Ads are more ā€œseeā€ than ā€œreadā€, meaning that you have to show your game in a visual way rather than explaining it through text.

Have your ads have only the key points of your game, there’s no need to explain the entire game. The players can find out what the game is about by clicking and actually playing the game.

There should be maybe 2-3 lines of text max, it’s very hard to reduce the words but it’s what you need to do.

Next, never put bright on bright or dark on dark, it makes the text hard to read and the background does not match with the words. Your vibrant gold background clashes with the red text and it made me have to concentrate on reading the words.

Other than that, your game seems interesting to play, keep it up!

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I would not click on that ad, you need to project your game in a way where it’s more see than read, just like what @TheNesNes32 said.

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