false advertisement is illegal in the US

[Mr. Nobody]

This DLC was shown to be included in gamepass since it was announced. Now all of a sudden it's not? You do realize this is false advertisement and illegal in the United States correct?

[Slippy]

lol

[HomeAlone]

anything I have seen regarding the DLC with gamepass is a 10% discount not that it is included.

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally posted by HomeAlone:

anything I have seen regarding the DLC with gamepass is a 10% discount not that it is included.

when they announced the DLC it was stated it'd be free for gamepass

[BruT]

where did u saw that?

[Mr. Nobody]

https://videogames.si.com/news/age-of-empires-4-sultans-ascend-release-date
https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/16mykda/tldr_the_sultans_ascend_dlc/
According to this reddit post that proves i'm not going crazy they removed "Free for game pass subscribers" at some point. They knew they'd lose money and they thought "hey lets just go back on what we said"

[Pastoria]

That's on you for trusting reddit and 3rd party sites. The devs didn't officially stated that it will be free for GamePass user

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally posted by Akira:

That's on you for trusting reddit and 3rd party sites. The devs didn't officially stated that it will be free for GamePass user

lmao yes they did i simply used those as an example from the time of the announcement because they edited it out. It just shows that it was seen by others and i'm not the only one.

[Mr. Nobody]

Like others in the reddit said when this was announced and you went onto the store page for it, it 100% said included with gamepass which is why so many people didn't preorder it and likely why so many on gamepass haven't bought it.

[Cacomistle]

Go sue them then. See what happens.

Legal stuff is not black and white. That's why we have courts. I'm not a lawyer, so idk how the law works, but I'd be incredibly surprised if it said that if anything you wrote is false for any reason you will be held liable even if its immediately corrected.

I don't know for sure how it'd play out if it went to court. Well, assuming someone rich sued them, if you sued them I'd say 99% chance you get crushed by microsoft lawyers. But I think its pretty likely they'd win. And if they'd win in court, for all intents and purposes its legal.

Also who cares about people who didn't pre-order? There's an incredibly easy solution for that... just buy it now. There's no difference, other than by buying it now you get to see what you're buying instead of just hoping its good. The only people who this affects negatively in a way that's not idiotic is people who saw the advertisement and bought game pass thinking they'd get the dlc. I bet that's not many people.

[Kactus]

anyone able to send Jake 15$

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally posted by Cacomistle:

Go sue them then. See what happens.

Legal stuff is not black and white. That's why we have courts. I'm not a lawyer, so idk how the law works, but I'd be incredibly surprised if it said that if anything you wrote is false for any reason you will be held liable even if its immediately corrected.

I don't know for sure how it'd play out if it went to court. Well, assuming someone rich sued them, if you sued them I'd say 99% chance you get crushed by microsoft lawyers. But I think its pretty likely they'd win. And if they'd win in court, for all intents and purposes its legal.

Also who cares about people who didn't pre-order? There's an incredibly easy solution for that... just buy it now. There's no difference, other than by buying it now you get to see what you're buying instead of just hoping its good. The only people who this affects negatively in a way that's not idiotic is people who saw the advertisement and bought game pass thinking they'd get the dlc. I bet that's not many people.

Something the FTC would deal with if they cared to.

[Cacomistle]

Originally posted by Jake:

Originally posted by Cacomistle:

Go sue them then. See what happens.

Legal stuff is not black and white. That's why we have courts. I'm not a lawyer, so idk how the law works, but I'd be incredibly surprised if it said that if anything you wrote is false for any reason you will be held liable even if its immediately corrected.

I don't know for sure how it'd play out if it went to court. Well, assuming someone rich sued them, if you sued them I'd say 99% chance you get crushed by microsoft lawyers. But I think its pretty likely they'd win. And if they'd win in court, for all intents and purposes its legal.

Also who cares about people who didn't pre-order? There's an incredibly easy solution for that... just buy it now. There's no difference, other than by buying it now you get to see what you're buying instead of just hoping its good. The only people who this affects negatively in a way that's not idiotic is people who saw the advertisement and bought game pass thinking they'd get the dlc. I bet that's not many people.

Something the FTC would deal with if they cared to.

Well I don't see the FTC doing anything about it, and I don't think that will change.

You understand that the United States has corporations who are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people's deaths... and get away with it. They're not going after microsoft for accidentally putting "free for game pass" on the store page and then swiftly correcting it before release. On the optimistic side the FTC will pick its battles, and on the pessimistic side they just don't do anything.

[Slippy]

Please do make a complaint to the FCC im sure they will take you seriously. Also I can send you a steam giftcard code if you need it buddy

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally posted by Serf Gundyr:

Please do make a complaint to the FCC im sure they will take you seriously. Also I can send you a steam giftcard code if you need it buddy

i'll take your money probably put it to better use.

[Slippy]

I already paid your mom just hit her up and ask