Mobile game adverts are a fucking trip I swear.

Case in point, Matchington Mansion (a match 3 game like gardenscapes etc with exceptionally similar gameplay) and township (uh... Some kinda city builder game I guess??) Both run nigh identical adverts that in no way at ALL represent the gameplay of the actual games.

Both of them depict things being broken in a house (or a barn in the other games case) and imply that they're puzzle games where you match the right item to fix the broken stuff and stop it getting worse.

In BOTH cases they always choose the wrong order or items (or both)... Leading to what can only be assumed to be a blatant case of attempted insurance fraud.

(Seriously who pours petrol onto a blazing fire oh my god)

@Nine why... would anyone make ads that advertise gameplay completely different from the actual game

does that fall under false advertisement laws?

@Felthry i have no idea,. on british television at least if an advert does NOT display gameplay, then it legally has to state "not actual gameplay" or something to that effect... i guess that law isn't global though.

@Nine @Felthry Wait you live in the UK?

I found mobile game ads mostly just go completely off the deep end and make things that look exciting but don't even resemble gameplay.

@BatElite @Nine is that normal for mobile game ads? We use adblockers really heavily and don't install things that have ads on our phone so I guess we just haven't seen it

@Felthry @Nine I've only seen them on TV, where I'm guessing the audience isn't remotely hard-core.

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