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What is with games that are completely different from what is advertised? (lemmy.ca)
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I've been seeing a bunch of video ads on Facebook of games that are similar to Tetris. I find them mesmerizing and oddly satisfying to watch. But when I tried downloading a few of these games, they are nothing like what was shown in the ad.

I just don't get why game developers do this. You went to the trouble of making a program to do a certain thing so you could create an ad to trick people into downloading a completely different program. Why not just create the game you figure people want to play? If you're able to create the program to show in the ad, why not make that the game?

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[โ€“] blargle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, it's much easier to make a short animated ad than even a simple original game. The purpose of any such game is to serve you up ridiculous amounts of ads. The actual game is a ripoff of a free tutorial with assets stolen from one of the 300 other games exactly like it, all of which are also just vehicles for ads. They figure anyone who will download a game from an ad and play the game even though it's different will watch the ads in the game because they'll put up with anything, and maybe click on the ads because they already clicked one.

[โ€“] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

Sounds like my little cousin lol. He'll literally play a mobile game till the first ad, click on it and install that, and then play that until the first ad