What do you think about the misleading mobile game ads?

[Crit ubers]

I personally love them for meme's
I personally hate them for gameplay

[Blargo]

I've always wondered why mobile game ads follow these three same strange formulas.

Either it's:

• An animation that has nothing to do with the gameplay.
  
• A live-action scene where people just talk about the game.
  
• Streamers commentating over the game.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

gotta get that spyware voice and text tracker on as many phones as they can anyway they can

[Oliver #MAGA]

I don't see them very often, but I never look into those games after seeing the ads; they've never interested me.

[HE❌EN]

You mean those games which have names like a wild combination of "Clash" "Clan" "Village" "Castle"?

Those are no games - those are a disgrace.

[Azza ☠]

If it's Google Ads or similar (trusted ad hosting service), you can actually report them and they get removed pretty quickly. They also have a little corner tag to provide you the ad providers details and the URL, without needing to click-thru.

Report a Google Ad:
https://support.google.com/google-ads/contact/vio_other_aw_policy?

Ads are commonly used by scammers, malware spreading, and clickbait or just misleading. However, most ad service providers have terms as well as some automatic processes in place to try help prevent that.

[s w e k]

I don't.

[Florida Man]

I mean, that's basically all ads, but even as far as video games specifically, this isn't anything new.

There was a video a while ago (can't find the damn thing now) that talked about The CoD3(?) trailer and the Killzone 2 E3 """gameplay demo""" way back when, even how ads for Atari and NES games used hand-drawn art and other tricks to make the product seem way better than it was. And even more recently, there's Fallout 76, with "16 times the detail" and so on.

The reason those things are considered okay is essentially "a reasonable person would be aware that this might not necessarily reflect the final product" or some other equally asainine ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Just realize that literally everything is attempting to lie to you and adjust yourself accordingly.

[WhispersOfTheWind]

No. Not that I don't think about them just saying they're misleading thus wrong.

[Azza ☠]

It's not a news story...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVfslRsNXUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z696bTiP8Ro

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28wx4Rzy0lw


in the game itself you don't even see any of the battles , they're just numbers in a report screen ... and even the game itself is full of ads for their super expensive packs.

[Q-T_3.14.exe]

"Skip Ad"

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

ADS?

What are these ADS you speak of?

It is "current year"...

Who has not heard of AD-BLOCKERS?