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Game Developers And False Advertising

Posted by simoniker on from the missing-features-hidden-agenda dept.

Pezman writes "Sam 'Freejack' Brown, formerly of Legend Entertainment, has released the 3rd installment of his article series discussing 'Game Developer Myths'." This opinion piece deals with "...this consistent belief that developers intentionally lie about a title's features in order to generate sales and interest", and points out that "developers don't generally like... early marketing, and the reasons should be fairly obvious - gamers tend to hold developers to every feature they promise."

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  1. exactly by Tumbleweed · · Score: 3, Funny

    They said this game would, and I quote, "kick ass!"

    This game did not kick any ass. Not my ass, nor any other asses. There was no ass-kicking included, which the box CLEARLY stated it would.

    This is clearly a case of false advertising, if not breach of contract. I demand my rights! This is an outrage, and an affront to man and God. An abomination of the highest order! No ass kicking, whatsoever. Amazing to think they could get away with this. What arrogance! This is fargin' war - I'm gonna rip them a new icehole! Fargin' bastidges.

    To quote Homer Simpson, rakish devil and man-about-town, "Those sucks were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked."