The free-to-play mobile games really turned me off with the ticket thing. I found I couldn't even finish a single route and I think it's a waste of time. The paid mobile games held my interest for a while. It was what got me into visual novels, after all. But then, after I've read a few, they started to get really boring. The MC is designed for self-inserts and is really, really bland. I don't do self-inserts so it's really annoying for me. I thought the art was good at first until I discovered Amnesia and some evn otome games. The guys in mobages seem pretty much the same in every game, personality-wise. I stopped buying mobile games the moment I realized I spent more on one route than I spent on a discounted copy of Amnesia on Steam. The price in mobages add up when you buy a lot so I regret that, especially when PC otomes seem to get cheaper in comparison.
It was fun for a while until I realized there's more to VNs and otome games than fluff.