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False advertising

Who agrees with me that Playrix should be sued for creating false gameplay in their adverts? It really pisses me off that they make advert gameplay that is completely different to the actual game. I don't want to play Candy Crush nor complete spelling games in order to restore a home, I want to use those actual items in the adverts. Their adverts are disgusting and abysmal, and I'm not just talking about Playrix, I'm talking about the other games in general, such as Words Story, Matchington Mansion and so many more. What was also shocking, a developer had threatened someone on YouTube who exposed their adverts with legal action. It's them who should be facing it. Someone needs to sue them! Who agrees with me? Let's teach Playrix and those other shoddy games a lesson they shall never forget!--Brainiac Adam (talk) 15:46, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that this YouTube user i3Stars has already did multiple videos about horrible mobile game ads, and compares in-game ads to the real gameplay. Not just Playrix, but other mobile game companies who wants to gain some quick buck as revenue.

A quote from Brainiac Adam's issue:

What was also shocking, a developer had threatened someone on YouTube who exposed their adverts with legal action. --Brainiac Adam (Brainiac Adam)

Yes, i3Stars then got a death threat from someone claiming to be a game developer who developed these games (who happens to be watching one of the videos made by i3Stars, and got incensed by it). i3Stars responded by refusing to take down the videos that exposes those game ads (like how Alex Tan, a former Singaporean, had outright refused to take down his news articles on Facebook after Singapore invoked the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act), but I think the game developer had gone quiet after that.

The worst thing the game developer could do, is to file a copyright dispute to YouTube for these videos, but I'm afraid, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, that Google, especially YouTube, is doing nothing to resolve/mediate this issue.

In my honest opinion, I think i3Stars deserves some form of respect, not because he/she is helping us, but because those greedy app developers (some game developers are companies like Electronic Arts, Gameloft Barcelona/Kharkiv, heck, even Halfbrick) use fraudulent advertising to "lure in gullible and/or unsuspecting users" to play their games.

--Wikipedia Vienna (talk) 09:24, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]