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Aug 1, 2021 11:42 PM
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Zincee
"Sid-Nail can't hurt you, he isn't real".
CandidGamera
Oh, look who's playing the high-qualify mobile games. Most of the time you get a match-3 with a crudely drawn character head in the corner.
itsthevoiceman
Change the bottom to some random garbage match 3, and it's more correct.
Cemoreabstract365
+ 5$ for any interaction and another 10 for no ads
Persmo
The Game Theorists made a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT6eMorkX78
boredomboredomboredom
Anyone else seen the fucking adds for Evertale that make it look like a horror game not a Pokémon knock off
Kopar
You're assuming the ad is even vaguely similar to the game itself.
JustinArnold
-shows that damned tower minigame that is the only thing i want to do- yes! -mobile gacha game of no relation- fffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuu
venomlash
Acorns now, my lord!
StellaMatutina
Conspiracy theory: they're piggybacking off your processor to mine their Bitcoin remotely!
ExistentialDreadlocks
We're at a point where we no longer rate mobile games by their quality but by the aggressiveness of their ads.
LinkGoesHIYAAA
“Monster Tamer Go” be like
LordofSandvich
They're also clearly all made using the same tools + salespeople, but the company is different each time you see the ad somehow.
tinybleeeeeeeeeeg
I think they all use the same SDK and/or ad publishers. It feels like the same devs but l every game is showing the same ads.
CuteLukePatoot
Nah, 99% of them end up being a Bejeweled clone.
SuperiorPebble
I blame Google for not reviewing ads. Constant false advertising on their platforms and they don't give a damn.
funkypig
MrZev
It was way worse. I remember seeing Warcraft 3 custom maps gameplay used in videos instead of whatever their game was.
SuperiorPebble
This still happens. I work for a game company, our game footage is frequently used to advertise shovelware mobile games.
SlightlyDodgy
Why are people suprised by this? It's always been like this from when games were advertised on TV in the late 70's they showed hi-res /1
SlightlyDodgy
/2 cartoon like graphics for pacman and space invaders. Right now I'm playing loads of dragon 32 games and none were like the advertising.
Irreal
Though back then it was clear that the game couldn't look like the advert.
HeWhoLaughsAndFartsInYourGeneralDirection
We have ice age at home
zFUBARz
They always show somebody sucking at the game too so you think, "oh man I could totally do that."
PoopholeAintALoophole
Pre-rendering vs RT rendering
LinkGoesHIYAAA
“Monster Tamer Go” be like
Conz
PC is like that too, the more flashy and elaborate the art work, the less graphics are in the game. Just look at something like DOTA2.
Ulthirm
Theres a difference here, DOTA and LoL does not disguise their gameplay in the ads, they just have fancy drawings of their characters.
Ulthirm
Whereas the mobile ads being complained about do not even show actual gameplay.
TCGView
If a mobile game ad has big titties, there are no big titties in the game.
Ulthirm
That stupid one that pops up on Imgur all the time about "helping (object) get to (place) while avoiding (object)" You know the one.
KiwiGameDev
Yeah, there might be new legislation passing at some point soon restricting what ads are allowed to show, if so, things like “pull the pin”
KiwiGameDev
will likely disappear
ifyouaskmeme
World of warcraft I'm looking at you.
tracereading
Yeah they need a big fucking disclaimer that says "not actual gameplay"
FTUG
Love to hate the mobile game ones where they show a game that is completely different from the game that is being advertised
CitizenPrime
Same as Cyberpunk 2077
CandidGamera
It's especially hilarious if you see several ads for the same game and they each show a completely different game.
glenngriffon
"can you play this pull the pin game?" | "Yes!" |"PSYCHE! No you can't that's not the game! It's actually a complex RTS!"
Drillgorg
I want to play the pull the pin game but I know that's not what the ad leads to...
DonnaNobleInTheLibrary
Ad: triple-A RPG; game: generic city builder waiting game with predetermined plots and "progression".
bernlack
Can't tell you how many ads I've seen using Mount & Blade modded gameplay for shitty medieval click em up NGU's
ifyouaskmeme
The xbox store ratings are insanely fake for that game.
Toasty237
Have seen a game that added one Single mission that includes the gameplay of the ad and the Rest was completely diffrent. Even the artwork
Toasty237
Looked completely diffrent. From pretty good graphics ingame they added the shitty simple graphics from the ad
GuacamoleMoleMolester
Huh? Why would they do this?
kootiepatra
So they can keep running the ad without getting nailed for false advertising, I guess?
Superchief86
I enjoy the ads that blatantly use artwork from world of warcraft.
Einstein9073
I don't ever see ads like that on websites that are safe for work
lemmefixit
or Age of Empires
DanFlorentONE
Some are simply age of empires 1 gameplay
fudgex
Fucking WILD
PorneliusHubertII
Or a puzzle game that is fundamentally impossible to actually solve.
Lyconous
Oh, then just buy the level skip for 99 cents
BubblesTheFish
Or a stupidly easy puzzle to solve but the person attempting it in the ad is doing everything but the correct solution to make you mad.
Toasty237
"If you can beat this level you are better than 99% of the people"
LtColThorin
Because 99% of people are smart enough to not download the game.
TiredOfTheBS
I want that to be illegal
gamblingpoet
It isn't illegal because technically, the puzzles they show ARE in the game. They maybe have nothing to do with the game, but they are in.
FoxyEllie
I just give it a 1 star review and move on
adventurepantsing
I thought they were trying?
crushingbore
I think it is in many parts of Europe, but then they just pull the game from those countries since they're small markets.
Drakoth97
It should be the same as when Gearbox or 2K got sued for Alien: Colonial Marine
shankelstoff
HOW is it not? I feel like I don't even know what false advertising is anymore.
DaOllieGSauce
I think the issue is that the mobile games are free to download and play. So what damages do you bring to bear in court? (Not a lawyer tho)
BanadecCamberbootch
I make 50+/hr at my job. I downloaded and played it at work and wasted 12 full hours a day for 3 weeks. That's 1/
BanadecCamberbootch
over $5000 dollars worth of time I should have been doing my job that they owe me... or someone at least.
SarahPlsz
Homescapes actually got in trouble not long ago. They fixed by adding similar puzzles to the game but making the nearly inaccessible.
SarahPlsz
Technically not false advertising as long as they're in the game, so no problem.
TakeYouAway
Looking at you, homescapes
TheGhastHunter
And king's throne
pofalof
They actually added minigames that are those ads.
Asadsadsadclown
To avoid removal.
HedonistBeard
When you add things from the ad to the game after the ad runs you still committed false marketing.
TakeYouAway
Yes but it's still pretty scummy and misleading
kootiepatra
I don’t understand why you would put bad mini games into a reasonably good quality (if bog standard) Match 3??
pofalof
To appease those that were upset that the ads didn't reflect the game play.