The Insidious World of Fake Mobile Game Ads | Asmongold Reacts
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They make the ads showing someone FAILING to play well, on purpose, to make you want to play the game RIGHT, it's psychological, and insidious.
It’s ridiculous.
When I see those ads I get insulted and don't bother with their games. But I only play Marvel Snap and Slay the Spire on mobile. Anything else is on a Steam Deck
The weird thing about those ads is that for some people, they fall for it. But for many others, it does the opposite because the way they fail is so obvious it feels like an insult to one's intelligence. I was more inclined to play the games that show people doing well or actually beating the level instead of the whole "Oh no, I am so slow at clicking or doing the right thing.
"insidious" lol
I was surprised that bit wasn't mentioned actually.
The most painful thing about these fake ads is they show a gameplay of someone playing SO badly, it makes YOU want to download just to play it right.
That is a ploy to lure in power-gamers. They are the most likely to become whales.
just a scheme
Rage baiting
If you get baited, you're that easy to provoke. Get help
the worst part is, if you have played a game on your own, and later you get ads, showing entirely different games with its name
Love it when you report these game ads as spam and false advertising and you get the response that nothing was found wrong with what you reported.
Google and Apple get percentages of every dollar spent in their digital stores.
You get responses when you report something?
remember disabling playstore stops ads from popping up. saves battery and bandwidth too.
There was this 1 game called warpath and to be fair most of the adverts show gameplay… kinda. But one of the ads had a guy saying something along the lines of “Wow! So warpath is completley free to play? With no pay to win whatsoever? That’s amazing!” Yea the game is basically a watered down rise of kingdoms lmao
I hate the ad's that let you click on the skip sign, just to wait another 30 seconds to click on another skip sign lol
And only then are you allowed to click an X to close it. If you're lucky. Or it breaks and forces you to open the app store with the game on it cuz the X is so damn small.
@@dflameX yep they are the worst
I thought I was the only one lol
@@nixutps or they break, black screen, and force you to restart the app
the worst ones are the ones who automatically redirects you into the playstore after the ad is finished
Google does quality control when you report scam ads. And then they say "no its not."
I have reported a lot of ads that say that the biggest bank in my country is selling stocks and the dividend is almost double what you pay, haven't click it but pretty sure is just a fake app that "sells stocks" but it's completely false, just recently a close older person saw the ads for "forex and bitcoin" and spend 200 USD and the fees for transaction were 70 USD, the app did the transactions for you and he lost 90% of his money in minutes and he got a call to put other 500 USD to take out the last 10% but he got mad and told them that he was going to sue them and they ignored him, btw 200 USD in my country is almost the minimum salary so you can get what he lost
Tech run by indians, what did you expect
I reported a blatant facebook false advertising scam where you can buy your own star and name it. Stars all ready have official names recognized globally so it was total BS.
Facebook replied that the advertiser was doing nothing wrong. The people running the adds could just take people's money, and just send the customer a piece of paper. Genius scam.
@@DavidHands you'd think so - but it's probably just a tax evasion sceme mark and one of his besties (his alt) are running
"Quality"
I hate it when random crappy game ads use game play from games like Diablo, Command and Conqure, Age of Empires, ect.
So happy to see command and conquer mentioned, loved that game as a kid and hate that ads are using it
Yeah some of these ads are outright copying these games to the exact detail in the add and it’s so annoying
Not a dumb take just a bad one. It’s an over-simplification of how addiction works. It’s why addiction is classified as a disease. Because they can’t “just stop” otherwise it wouldn’t be an addiction. A lot of it is psychological and they need help to quit. These game developers know this and choose to pray on addicts. It’s easy to not drink once you’ve quit but it’s near impossible to quit once you’re addicted and for people who are predisposed to addiction it’s hard to tell where a habit ends and an addiction begins, before it’s too late.
that liquid falling on knight ad was appearing 1000 times on my phone and i still never downloaded that game
@@JohnSmith-pn2vl why are you self reporting bro
@@darkriku12 its a bot i think
Same. I wonder how much money that company lost to advertising to me
@@Pico_444 for real are they dumb or what? every time i open snapchat or something i get that ad. its still showing everyday
Yeah, but the thing is, there are people who click on it and downloaded the game. They stopped doing exactly that ad, granted, but the company found something that works and is profitable, so they keep doing it regardless of the majority of people who doesn't support it.
They now have ads showing "CZcamsrs" I've never heard of playing these fake adds to prove the are not fake.
I've seen them straight up just steal clips of youtubers out of context and use that. So far I've seen pyrocynical critical and xqc.
Not to mention straight up stealing gameplay from other video games meanwhile the actual game is just a cheap 2d game you can't even play on tilt that's straight up graphics and sounds from a Motorola flip phone game
Yes. Very cringy.
I checked this Evony game on Google play store, and You should too. It shows NOTHING about the real game. The avatar, and 5 out of 5 game pictures are about this fake minigame. It has 100+ mln downloads, 3.9 score. Looking into the comments, there are some 1/5 reviews saying that the game is different than in the ads, to which the company responds:
"We assure you, the content in our game matches our advertisements. Keep playing and exploring - there's a lot to discover. If you stop too soon, you might miss out on some exciting aspects of the game."
This is insanity. How is this legal?
Even Asmon has appeared in one and had to say he never promoted it
I personally knew a woman who had spent $79,000+ on a mobile game. She did not look like the kind of person you'd expect, pretty, petite, healthy, but addicted. She also had an unexpected job, as a health director of a major hospital xD.
Kinda on topic, I remember in high school a college professor came over and addressed numerous jobs you can get as a designer/artist and one of them was a food advertiser. The example they gave was for cereal and they said the cornflakes and milk were literally cardboard and glue. I was thinking the entire time afterwards “isn’t that literally false advertising?”
He is right about not playing these games being the solution. I stopped installing mobile games that don't respect the customer and I don't let my son have them on his phone either.
funny thing is that the devs of most of these games are chinese obviously tailoring to children who sees the ads and instantly get hooked
Yeah people got mad when he says don't do alcohol or drugs if you don't want to get addicted or stop doing them if you are but it is that simple..as a former addict I can tell you the solution is simple but it was still hard to do.
This kind of advertising is literally the entire premise for "bait and switch" laws.
The only question is if since its free, does it still violate any laws? It probably should, as there is an opportunity cost beyond financial costs.
Proving a loss of time is almost never really going to get you anywhere legally/compensation wise, especially when the games have some portion or version of the ad in the game
You'd have to then prosecute anyone that showed a portion of their game in an ad that wasn't part of the "main game", and then you'd need to define what the "main game" legally is, haha
@@ninjablade2 I think roughly defining general genres could be a start. If 90% of the gameplay loop consists of base building but they show a "slide-shooter" in the ad and completely miss the base building aspect, then it should be fake advertisement
companies have a lawyer likely go over the laws and figure out how to skim enough to avoid the laws without doing the actual work. Cause a barrel game or the like will eventually not be spent upon cause eventually you run out of scam skins to put out and those games normally are abandonware just a year out of their box.
Though lots of games end up like this.
Also the most irritating part is how these scam games end up at the top of the app stores I guess its cause of the download amounts.
Still wish they got labbled with a tag you could filter out
It's not free if you can spend money on it you can download anything for free even in the 90's but then sold a key to unlock content.
The thing is you also get bombarded by these ads while you're "doomscrolling" on your phone, and it happened to many times that I "fat fingered" the display and clicked the ad.
True
As a game developer myself I just can't get myself to spend money on things like that. I know someone sat there in the office and purposely put in an obnoxious waiting mechanic, and artificially set a variable to $15 to buy the gems or whatever to skip it. Why deal with that shit when you could just go and play a real, not obnoxious game.
I am SICK of these types of ads, and I see them constantly for over a year now.
Red
Adblockers exist, you know
@@Chasodey I don't have an ad blocker, never have, and yet for months, CZcams prevents me from watching videos saying I have one. It's maddening. Only by refreshing a dozen times will it eventually play.
@@kcw1879 uBlock origin is great and does not get detected
@@ChasodeyScrolling through Instagram or reddit also, and there is no adblock....
I find myself watching the barrel-shooty ad way longer than I should. Could have clicked it off 5 seconds in but they designed it in a way that mesmerizes me and draws me in. It’s kinda scary, I have to snap myself out of it. My brain might just be rotted though idk
Your brain is what I imagine a ree tarted brain to be like. You wake up and it’s just a constant struggle.
It's okay. They need to pay more for the ad if you don't skip it.
I think what infuriates me is that they play so badly, that sometimes I get curious that I can play that better. But yeah I feel you in watching a bit longer.
Bro why you gotta do him like that 🤣
@@MattDamon69Thank you. 😐
My ex girlfriend’s grandmother was a normal, caring loving grandmother who lived a most regular life. But whenever I would go over to my exes house, there she would be, on her phone at the dinner table, playing candy crush. She was a candy crush addict and when questioning her, why she played that game so much she told me she couldn’t stop and had put hundreds of dollars into the game and money to unlock new levels.
This was the same woman who judged the hell out of her grandson, my exes brother, for playing World of Warcraft (he had the PC in the living room and I’d see both him and the grandma playing games) I just couldn’t help but think man…if you’re gonna spam a game at least be a good one not f**ing candy crush
old people dont typically hear of Elden Ring
there's nothing wrong with candy crush as a game though. Lol, complain about something else.
@@muhamadmuhamad-ky8gd candy crush has predatory practices, imagine defending a mobile game
@@angel_of_rust thank you.
There is a difference between an old, retired lady playing games for fun (what is she going to do anyway?).
Vs. a young guy who ditched his duties to be online all the time (assuming thats what he does). If he is playing in a healthy dose, it should be explained to the grandma that it is okay (by his parents).
Dude really just hit us with the "Just say no" for mobile game addiction. Lol.
I had a co-worker at an older job sit there for a 15-min break playing FATE GO and all he did was drop over 500$ CAD in 15 mins trying to get duplicates of a character to merge them to max out the character. These people are so careless with money or addicted its insane to me to constantly feed gatcha/mobile games.
Next, address that scummy advertisement about the bogus subsidy check from the government. I’m tired of those ads.
Or the ones talking about owning land in a game and making real money on it. I just specifically hate the guy who brags about now his landlord pays him. 😂 and they payout in crypto.
I dont know how is it in the USA, I'm from south america and on top of all that has been mentioned I have seen many, MANY times ads of "bussineses" or "trade schools" and the like, that 99% of the time end up being pyramid schemes.
I once saw one with a deep fake andrew tate. It was trying to talk how it thinks he would talk. It was like "what's up you disgusting poors, do you wanna be less disgusting in poor? The government of a country im not from and i dont live in is giving away money"
Ok i added the last part, but its just funny to me the logical dissonance required to believe Tate is advertising for the US government.
Exactly what I’m thinking right now talking bout you can get a check for 5k for your local government 😂😂😂
That is only an American thing.
I litteraly had the same ad before the video....
Ayo same 😂
See it constantly...
Imagine not using an adblocker 😅
I saw a leprechaun and a pink elephant today
Ads are for normies that don't know how badly their time is being wasted. They are basically modern day popups. You are either wealthy enough to avoid them with premiums, or you are savey enough to navigate around them with a blocker.
I don't negotiate with terrorists, so I choose the latter.
This addictive marketing strategy is also used in casinos and slot machines. It’s completely ludicrous but genius.
Which is why vampire survivors was so good
It's like inviting you to play dodgeball only to play a boardgame
Alcoholic here.
I think it's true that some people have a prediliction for addiction, whether by nature or nurture but it 100% runs in families. I've been to too many rehabs and too many groups not to have noticed it. Further, it has become obvious to me that some people just find it harder not to get addicted to their vice of choice. It's something non addicts just don't seem to get, and it's why group leaders should always be addicts themselves.
However, it is still 100% a choice. Nobody EVER forced me to drink and I have never once blamed the people selling me alcohol.
Whenever I was lying in hospital from overdose or withdrawal, I only thought ever thought "God, I'm such an idiot". I never thought "those damn companies out there selling alcohol, REEE!"
Nice outlook. Before seeking help you need to be able to help yourself
The problem for gamers is more like this:
With Alcohol that you buy, you probably enhance the alcohol marketplace and the brands that u buy. But its alc...
With videogames is like: PC games and 1 Time to pay games are like our holy sanctionary
But with whales paying so many shit companys for this garbage money, the other smaller "Good" intention video game artists and companys are going to drown
@@RipOfflineAudio what do you think their physical or mental dependance of alcohol makes them treat alcohol as? addiction is a love/hate kind of thing, friend. If you'd play a little less games you'd probably have gotten to meet alcoholics/addicts who worship their poison so many times harder than you do your games. Or at the very least, you'd have seen that there's more than 1 way to treat anything like a holy sanctuary. be it drugs, alcohol, gaming, whatever.
I fail to see the point you are trying to make, too. shouldn't the studio and publisher, ideally, use the money they are paid of off sales to enhance the game marketplace and their brand? Or dare I say, ideally, ANY kind of for-profit organization should be using their earnings on bettering their brand?
I'm assuming I'm missing your point, otherwise I'd say your comment is a slight bit out of touch with the reality and 'conversation' you jumped in on.
its been proved by science and neuroscience that theres no such a thign as choice , everythign is the result of the past ,adn what happened to your brain before
@@AXharoth this has not been proven. please dont spread misinformation. All signs point toward free will not existing but no proofs exist.
What I find funny about these fake ads is when you have 5-6 different content creators commenting on their "gameplay" of it and it's the same gameplay loop for all of them.
"Whoa how did you get all those cool characters!"
"Well you see I just used code IMASUCKER so I could get hundreds of free rolls. I pulled the mythical hero YouGotScammed of House GiveUsAllYourMoney!"
"Oh Wow!"
"Use your resources to build your kingdom and trample your enemies!"
How many ads did I just hit with this one?
im wondering often also if the content creators are actually promoting the app or if they just ripped some video part of them and dub over or something as a lot of time the lips don’t match the words said
@@minecraftreports Just like in 90's pron
Someone actually made those games ads show, its released on Steam last year. Name: YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM!
Have you heard of the sequel to that? I think it's already out.
Here is the real question. Why are they allowed to do these fake ads? Fake/False advertisement is illegal. Sadly the mobile market is completely ignored by many regulating agencies in many countries. Anybody remember the huge fiasco about lootboxes on PC? By that time that predatory shit has been going on for almost a decade on mobile.
My wife is an avid Pokemon Go player and joins Facebook groups, Reddit Groups and other forums regarding Pokemon Go. She regularly sees people admit they spend $1000s into the game on a monthly basis and with a yearly event just passing, people burn up even more money on whatever. Utter Ridiculousness.
Digital crack
People value money differently depens on how much they make
Asmon could waste 10 grand on a gacha game and wouldn't even think about it next day
I don't put value in money but I also don't have any
You know, reading this post, it makes me realize that Pokemon Go is the ONLY phone game that I do not regret spending money on when I was younger. Spending is actually optional, It's a complete game, it gets you out of the house, it gets you socializing with others, and it's pure nostalgia. I am ashamed to admit that I spent money on any of the other phone games, but looking back, I guess I was addicted. Wasn't much else for me to do at the time, working 12 hour days with crazy hours. I downright refuse to play any games with microtransactions that are not PURELY cosmetic now, so at least I gained wisdom from the experiences.
Now I’m a high level. The game is a chore and takes forever. I refuse to spend to win
I'm a teacher and little kids love these fake ads. It's to the point where they rather see the ads then the video.
This... actually sounds horrifying
sad
wtf? like why?
You're a teacher and you write "then" instead of "than"?
@@Danso_3000 you do realize there are teachers from non-English-speaking countries that also don't teach English and English is like their 2nd or 3rd language, right?
Ironically got one ad of it waiting for your video
The real question is: why do people KEEP PLAYING THE GAME after they know they have been tricked?
They''re just capitalizing on people willingness to be walked over. If people weren't so stupid and didn't had such low standards, this market strategy wouldn't work.
These people in ads are all kinds of people, cheap actors, low profile content creators,... Or the worst one, the marketing team uses clips of popular content creators reacting to something else entirely and attach that to their game without permission.
If you think ADDICTION as a disease like drugs, alcohol, food, betting and etc
It's kinda fucked up to prey on people but it seems to be acceptable
Know somebody who is addicted to sharty fake ad games?
Call the govt helpline 555 FAKE ADS to be shown more fake ads
when it comes to addiction, the circumstances are really important in both how disorders are diagnosed and therefore how accountability should be distributed.
this is why asmon's take on it at ~23:50 comes across as so absurd to people who are more knowledgeable about these topics. there is a big difference between somebody who becomes addicted to something due to lack of self control and somebody who becomes addicted to something due to an undiagnosed medical disorder that they end up self medicating for. i know the guy isnt a doctor, but because of that fact he should be a little more reserved with his opinion about these things.
the point i agree with asmon here is that its not just a disease. There are elements where addiction is not your fault, but there is a degree that there is.
@@dlanbatal nah Asmon is wrong here, he really cant speak on addiction when he hasnt truly seen what happens to people before and after. I dont wanna see no one saying shit like 'oh just stop doing it' till they had to lock their brother in a room for a week and having to clean that shit up afterwards. Shit is absolutely not that easy
Yeah. It's acceptable to the extent that you believe it's their fault if they fall for it. I think it's just the usual case of life is simpler in black and white and we have our own shades of grey. Remember Asmon talks fondly of memories of ninja looting and then laughs at those who were stupid enough to fall for it. I think that kind of explains his stance here. Also bear in mind he has never tried any form of drug or alcohol, so he has never experienced that type of addiction. On a lot of topics I find his "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" attitude empowering, but in this case it does hit a little different, so I wouldn't take him too seriously.
The craziest fake ad I’ve seen is one that straight up just took elden ring gameplay and edited it to look like it was being played on a phone.💀
I’ve seen that one to was it the one where the dudes going against Godfrey physical?
Every single ad for the game "gold and goblins" shows a different game.
I have seen these ads for years on youtube. This is why I got an ad blocker.
And CZcams wonders why people want to use adblockers.
And yet now even ad blockers are beginning to fail on youtube
my still holds
@@DastenReVanced works fine
@@ajtaranto1989 I'll check it out, ta
Nowadays if a game I downloaded gives me an unprompted full screen ad I just uninstall.
to me the worst thing is that ads are being triple dipped, you have to close it 3 times every time, in the end that's the same, if not worse than a 30 seconds unskipable ad
Just turn your internet off😂 gets rid of all the ads
I drink alcohol Zack doesn't clean their house. It's the same thing
Its the McDonalds strategy. Business by traffic numbers instead of by consumer needs. Its well known that whenever McDonalds opens a new location, they send people to heavy traffic areas that count cars that go by, because if they reach a certain quota of traffic they can build a profitable location because they know 1 out of every 10 cars (or whatever the actual metric is) will pull into the drive-thru to order something. Same thing here, but its mobile downloads and web traffic. They know they'll lose the vast majority of people that play their game, but just like McDonalds they know one in however many people will make them lots and lots of money, so they don't have to worry about quality, just advertising.
Kind of but not entirely. McDonald at least have a cheap product that people enjoy. It has its place rightfully in the market. These games don’t
Mcdonalds doesn't really fake advertise like this though, they aren't promoting you a big mac and then when you go order it doesn't actually exist and then they look at you all weird like you're crazy. They promote their foods, they promote their giveaways, they promote their limited time discounts, their collectable toys for the kiddos etc.
Given these fake games promote completely different genres of games to what they actually are, it would be more like if Mcdonalds started advertising itself as an all you can eat steakhouse and showing plates of food with the steaks and other side dishes on it, none of which they actually sell.
Evony/Civony have been doing misleading ads for fifteen years, makes me feel old
I remember them starting out just making stupid little ads insinuating there was adult content in it lol
COME PLAY, MY LORD
These apps need to start being sued for false advertising.
Here is the problem: this has already happened at least 2-3 years ago if not more. The response of these giant companies who are the first to push these kind of ads was to add minigames inside their bull-shiny games that actually resembled the ads, even though the minigames were not consequential at all most of the times. So that way they were "technically legal"
You can't sue them in general. Because they are not selling you anything. Games a free so if you get tricked by downloading a game like this you are not losing money so there's nothink to sue for.
Another thing these companies use is as other commentor said - add a 2 min mini game just like add suggest to clear from legal troubles.
Finally the most scummy thing (IMO) is responding to negative reviews in such a scummy way. If you write a review of such game you get a response like: "We want to thank you for informing us abaut this issue, and apoligise! Our marketing team is abit behind so that add is abit outdated. We are sorry abaut this".
That! That is the most infuriating thing that can be said to anyone! They are trying to say that the game you saw in add was this game you downloaded, but they changed it over the time into something absurdly diffrent. That is the biggest nonsense that anyone who knows at least a little abaut coding. It's not like I made a wrong turn driving home and I ended up in Paris. It's not possible. Also how your marketing team can be marketing diffrent game???! Don't you have a phone? Can't you send an email? A pigeon? F it! Smoke signals might do it!
@@scrapmason3721 I've never seen even mini games within apps that resemble the ads, atleast for the games I've tried. It's nuts.
I hate myself to admit it, but I too downloaded this game, thinking it’s a shooting game and realized that it’s 10% shooting game for 2minute and 90% “pay to play” behind a pay wall.
'Garden escapes' got fined in the UK for fake ads like this.
"If you dont want to be addicted to something dont do it"
Says the former WoW addict
You can not understand if you are addicted until you decide to stop. I was a WoW addict as well for years. I only understood that I was an addict until I stopped.....
That's called first hand experience. Being an addict or former addict doesn't disqualify you from telling people not to participate in something that you participated in lol
hes so fukkign wrong about it , its infuriation , he has no clue abotu how addiction works , its all about how brai nworks trauma , depressions etc , all this shit about discipline and metnal tough is trash false ideas
a guy who cant clean his filthy house and cant go fix his teeth for years , gonan talk about will and discipline
@@AXharoth Except he didn't say anything like that. He said it's hard to do and might be painful.
"Life is about advertising, everybody's trying to sell you something." -My Father
What's worse is when the actual gameplay is way better than what the ad is
There's also the ads showing the exact same scenarios but with characters from the advertised game. Like all the suffering, freezing women with a child scenarios. I've seen that scenario with different artwork at least in 2 dozen game ads.
Evony used to be Civony, an online civilisation building game where you got to face against other players playing online, trying to destroy each others towns and become the overlord of the servers. Ogame was another similar game based in space. They used to be actually extremely good, now they've become these total shills.
One of the worst parts of the ads is having to press 3-4 times on the close button for a single advert, sometimes making the close button so hidden, so small that it opens their app page.
I'm guessing someone bought the company making Civony and renamed it for a great cash grab game? :)
It's not that the close button is too small, it's that the first close button is a fake one, it only shows you the real when after.
@@akse tbh I just think smartphones happened. Evony used to be browser based, but once it got into people's hands...
yoo i actually enjoyed ogame but eventually the devs discovered that they only make money within the first month of a new universe starting so then they just start a new universe every other month so now its impossible to enjoy playing it long term as any time the game actually starts getting good then everyone quits to join a newly started universe.
@@Delantho There used to be a fantasy, middle earth kind of one too with the same style as Ogame that I loved. But yeah, you're totally right, sadly these games have been lost to the abyss of greed.
Oh Evony. The game famously advertised for years by TITS, just TITS, nothing but TITS.
I can't believe Asmongold is JUST finding out about these Ads now lol
It's so bad that the new versions of these Ads have people in the Ads actually saying "Everyone thinks these Ads are fake, but I'm playing the game" on the same exact Fake ADs we've seen for years now lol.
The sad irony is I just want to play that game where you shoot barrels and collect guns, but it doesn't exist (except to advertise like 100 games that are nothing like it) LOL
For a while I systematicaly reported theses fake game ads and at some point I stopped seeing them but recently they came back with a vengence.
Thinking is the death of a sale 17:40 that is a perfect quote. Up there with "there is a sucker born every minute".
There's a different ad of someone "playing" this game and they're bragging like "fake game??? But I'm playing it RIGHT NOW!"
Yeah, those have been showing up more... and it's like... good job, get paid by that dumb company, and I still know it is fake.
I checked this Evony game on Google play store, and You should too. It shows NOTHING about the real game. The avatar, and 5 out of 5 game pictures are about this fake minigame. It has 100+ mln downloads, 3.9 score. Looking into the comments, there are some 1/5 reviews saying that the game is different than in the ads, to which the company responds:
"We assure you, the content in our game matches our advertisements. Keep playing and exploring - there's a lot to discover. If you stop too soon, you might miss out on some exciting aspects of the game."
This is insanity. How is this legal?
God I hate those so much, really does make you wonder how little shame people have to just be false ad actors.
I would happily be paid to do that
What makes me laugh is how they narrate it like it's some crazy strategy "Do I get this or get this? let's get this, okay perfect, now let's get this" when all it is is an obvious choice between a bonus or a negative. Like obviously you're gonna get more men instead of less.
The worst thing about these ads is that the games in the ads COULD be fun to play if they were actually the ones developed.
Addiction is a hell of hole to fall in, its ridiculous that states are so focused on the fight on drugs but simultaneously provide legal ground for gambling and those kinda games and similar
We have to watch out for the devils flower! It will unravel society if left unchecked!
These ads are diabolical
China in a nutshell
there should be a law that video games ads have to show real time gameplay footages and they have to clearly label which part of the ad is real gameplay.
Evony absolutely does. I tried the game out and the barrel thing with guns is part of it.
I'm not defending the game, I just hate it when people don't check out these kinds of things. One of the first things you do in that game is go play that (the controls suck though).
The games with those ads legally HAVE to have that as part of the game otherwise it gets taken down off the store because of false advertising(assuming they're not in the US) or get sued. The issue is that the section in the ad is such a small part of the game that it feels like false advertising
@@Aerroonfound one of those paid stooges guys.
Let's add they have to show the core gameplay. Not the effing mini games to trick you.
South Park nailed this in their Freemium episode way back, they have a special talent for such things
We have so many whales in CSGO/CS2 who spend millions on pixels.
I actually played evony as a kid. It was originally called civony and then changed to evony. It has ALWAYS been plagued by predatory monitization. Like, it was bad by todays standards in 2007. To get more cities you needed medals and the drop rates were near undroppable. It was also insanely plagued by bots. My alliance leader had a second alliance with 100 alt accounts he ran with bots to farm resources and send them to his main, and that was standard for most servers. The devs catered to the botters because they were the whales dropping upwards of $5k on a new account when a new server opened. It is absolutely no surprise to me at all that they went on to basically pioneer the fake game ads. Its just a little sad, because i spent countless hours playing that game, if the devs werent money hungry the game wouldve stayed alive for a lot longer
Bro I remember when all the Tribal Wars tribes were talking about Civony being the next big thing... then it kinda just came out as a limp noodle of pay to win.
Learn from this, be a better dad and dont let your Kids play this dirt
@@RealEvilLordExdeath nah I took a lot away from grinding a game when I didnt have access to money to even think about buying anything. Like I said, the game was actually good, I thoroughly enjoyed it despite being pissed about not getting any medals. The game gave you a free wheel spin a day, and the thought at the time was saving them until you have 10 or more makes the game give you better drops, thinking you spent money. Never knew if it worked or not, but I did get the medals I needed from the free stuff, but I could've been just insanely lucky. Theres nothing wrong with the progression model if there's no way to spend money, or if they never lowered the drop rates further
Same, I played Evony a lot as a kid. Wasn't as informed as you though. Got to the point where I could farm the npc towns non stop. But never came close to sustaining the 10-20x bigger armies that some people seemed to have. At first I thought they were hacking or something. Eventually joined a semi-active alliance and was educated on what really was going on. Alts and bots.
Still enjoyed the game though. I remember stuff like scout bombs.
It ended up playing like a perpetual pac-man game too. Like, the battle strategy itself was ok, but on a larger scale, there was no point to ANY of it. Take a spot, lose a spot, take a spot, lose a spot, for years and years.
My biggest gripe with some of these game producers is the fact that the fake game they produce for an AD is better than their actual game. I can’t even count the amount of games I’ve deleted within five minutes.
Unfortunately that's their goal... Whales would dry up a lot faster if they didn't keep getting dopamine hits from beating new players (like you) immediately after spending money. They either get a whale or they get someone for the whale to beat.
It boils down to one simple thing: Pay to win = whales, whales = flexing, and flexing = pay to win. The cycle continues and the company is the one who won.
The main issue with the argument about comparing gaming addiction to alcoholism is that consuming alcohol has an age restriction but gaming does not. A lot of the whales who stick around are not 18+.
I just block all those fake game ads immediately
if only rest of humanity "just" block those mobile game ads
It’s literally impossible to block these ads. I will block the exact same ad 5 times in 1 day.
asmongold is gonna look real silly after his arm grows back
I’ve recently seen one of these fake ads for a mobile game that went so far it straight up rips dark souls assets and uses them in the ad but when you click on the game it’s just a terrible mobile souls like but it doesn’t use those assets in game. The fake ads should definitely be illegal, it would be if they put the dark souls assets in their game, so why wouldn’t be illegal if they used them in advertising for said game?
Missing the little X to close the ad provides the highest clickthru rate.
What makes me mad is that actually good mobile games pretend their game is something different when in reality if they didn't lie and showed off their real game people would probably be more interested.
Yeah Ive seen this too and it makes no sense to me
Tho.. there is this one good mobile game where it basically makes fun of the fake mobile ads gameplay trope.. That Game is My singing monsters.. And at first a first glance when watching their recent ad.. It looks like they went downhill along with "them"
But if you managed to watch through until the end.. The fake gameplay is a joke and shows the actual gameplay in the end.
That tactic is part of why so many companies sponsor Northernlion to play games. He's so comically bad that many people purchase the games he's playing to implement the backseating they provided that he ignores.
Yeah pretty much. Evony 1 did fine just being what it is and it didn't need scam ads like these.
@@RecliningWhale I feel like this happens every time Asmon plays a new survivor game.
nah but comparing FGO to cash grab games is gotta be considered a war crime
Those adds don't fall under false advertising. They fall under unfair and deceptive advertising.
I actually actively play a free to play game and holy shit, the strongest 3 in that game must have spent at least 40-50k each. It's stupid. I spend 0 cents out of principal, anything that costs money I just consider as not being in the game, but yeah, a looooooot of people spend like 20-30 on it each month. And then there is the top players.
WoW Token + carries + store mounts + character transactions + level boosts + expansions + 15 per month = people do this in WoW all year long.
WoW Players are in denial
The first time I ever noticed about mtx was actually from WoW and other similar mmorpg. The idea that people could pay for a game more than its worth was so crazy for me the first time.
most people don't care about store mounts and don't use these "paid services"
@@vashe9 curious, what percent do? You have data?
Sold by the epic cinematic that suggests interesting gameplay actually happens. I mean really, trailers like that aren't far from showing a fake game.
I guess "fake game ads" is essentially advertising 10 games, and hoping 1 of them looks good enough to make someone download.
They’re not advertising to children, they’re advertising to grown ass adults. The adults need to take responsibility for their choices
Caught my nephew and niece wanting to install one of these "games" based on a mobile ad they saw.
One explanation later, they just wanted to play on my old Sega Mega Drive 2 instead.
It's a PITA for those advertising real games because its such a common practice that people assume your game doesn't match the ad.
I heard it is illegal, but FTC doesn't want to waste resources on a mobile game.
Gotta give Mat Dickie his props👏🏼. Of all my years playing mobile games, he never made any abomination like this👀
24:00 I completely agree with your viewpoint on addiction. People try so hard to pass off their decisions as if it is out of their control and not their fault. Accountability is fast becoming an outdated concept... smh
reminder that the streamer DSP regularly spends 10's of thousands monthly on a candy crush esque game with sweaty wrestlers in tights, and begs his viewers for donations to continue the cycle
I have seen only one city building game, which does not have fake adverts and it is Clas of Clans, which is wormhole for your money.
Google should be sued for allowing false advertising on their platform
That 100m+ is people downloading and seeing the lies of the ad and deleting it immediately.
to me whats worst than the adds are the people that they put up infront of you saying stupid stuff like "OMG how does this person I'm friends with shop so much when she doesn't make any money!?!?!" then some other person shows up and says "She's playing this game and winning thousands of dollars!!!!" The people who voluntarily choose to peddle this crap are literally the worst type of person. You couldn't pay me enough money to be that dishonest...
in Brazil we're having a huge wave of casino games popping up, started I think two to three years ago with a company called Blaze, not sure it's international or national but their app has tons of minigames you could spend money on, and the ADs featured famous artists, sponsored youtubers here on the platform with millions of followers and even soccer players were sponsored to make an AD about it.
they're most likely billionaires now, because the money they offer to famous people is about a couple to tens of millions to a single person and they're not afraid of doubling the payment to make someone agree to their contract terms. we're having now "the little tiger's game" which does what you described, a girl comes out and starts playing it, tell the audience she's earning this much money, shows her account, shows the game rolling and kinda like a money bar filling up showing how much money she's making and it's one of the most famous apps in Brazil right now.
"its unethical to adblock" never heard anyone on this planet say that, adblock is the greatest invention of mankind
The greatest pain with these ads nowadays is trying to remove it from your screen, have to tik 3 times on the x with a 5 sec delay in between.
Only 20/30% of the people in rehabs can actually really overcome their addictions. Asmon: Just stop doing it, it's easy. Ok
because 70% are a weak minded losers, that's why they got addicted in the first place, and Asmon is right on that . I have always been obese, was addicted to eating, but since i turned 19 i started working out, been carefuil over my calories and macro, and now i look fit (like fat- fit if you know what i mean).
So yeah, it was very hard, but sometimes oyu just have to take your responsability and think "Well, it wouldn't hjave been that hard if I hadn't been a fat piece of shit in the first place (wich is the only reason i got to this point in my life)" If someone can't do taht, maybe he deserves to be addicted idk
@@fenor1862 ok Andrew tate. Still my point remains valid. Is not easy by any means. Especially with drugs or other things that makes you feel physically and mentally unwell if you skip a dose. There's a reason if, when you quit heroin for example, they give you methadone. We are all addicted to something. It can be something material or an habit. It can be something Dangerous or something pretty much harmless. Calling someone a loser cause he gets addicted, often in a low point in his Life, Is pretty stupid. Asmon Is addicted to his Savage lifestyle and would feel unwell living like a normal and clean person for example.
@@fenor1862lmao
@fenor1862 thank you!!!! I used to do percs and when it got to a point where i would need to take 2 to feel it. I would stop. Now i havnt done them in 3 years. The people who complain about addiction are the same ones to CHOOSE to get to that point. I will never have any sympathy to the people who CHOSE to do the drug. Now if it was a child who mother did these drugs or forced then thats a entirely diffrent story
@@dvader2004 yeah I feel like when your mother got you addicted Its another story
We got companies out here mid maxing ads before GTA 6.
Another reason is that because half of those games aren't even new games. Most games are just re-skinned and released.
I'm more comfortable with spending $5-10 on a Steam Game & taking the risk it being terrible than I am with playing any FTP Mobile game.
on steam you have 2 hours of gameplay to refund it lol
How can you pick a horrible game on steam ! Just watch a walkthrough read the reviews and do thinky do I like the gameloop?
@@katarn848 I always do some research for a game that caught my interest on steam.
@@joeh858I remember there being some games on Steam that were specifically made to last those 2 hours before the content abruptly ends (like the game would just close mid-level, but not because of a glitch - the devs just made it like that) and that was years ago, so I don't know if it is still common these days.
7:34 I remember someone saying that they get away with it because who is gonna go after them. The entity that goes after false advertisement has other things to do than go after some mobile game who is just gonna have another 3 clones pop up.
All they have to do is to fine CZcams for putting fake ads up.. and they will go away.
The freemium episode of south park is a good watch 😂
One problem is that those fake ads taught me to believe they are absolute garbage games because the demo wasn't being played "right".
The only good mobile games have a steam version on PC
Honestly.
Pixel Gun 3D is on steam and it's not a good game.
A company actually decided to make a compilation based on the fake games called "Yeah! You Want "Those Games," Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let's See You Clear Them!"
food addiction is a bit more difficult since you can't just avoid food
Jokes on me as these ads drove me to pay for youtube premium so I can stop seeing these ads...
At least FGO made Unlimited Budget Work anime
yeah and they didn't do false ads also, and there's no pvp in the game so whales can't crush those who f2p and they can't get butthurt when f2p beats them
the guy who spend 70k is just pure simping and i dont blame him for that
can't wait for the the fate/strange fake anime.
the main appeal of FGO is the story (fate/) itself, which is something that everybody that likes fate or nasuverse get, not the "gameplay" etc. the game was really meant for a weeb that really like fate / nasuverse (either just anime fan or hardcore Visual novel). i just play the game for the content (story), spend 0 dollars, grinding only for the servant/character i care but man, it kinda feel bad that the game being an easy target just because it's not appealing to general audience.
The moment someone actually makes the game it will sell. I don’t get it either.
You could literally make the game on the ad and charge $1 with no micros in it and retire
@@mezzy7109 nobody is going to directly purchase a mobile game nowadays
I'm pretty sure there was one, it was called something like You want those games?
ourtube strikes again. Poofed my other comment.
@@mezzy7109 Now it's into sunk-cost territory. It snowballs downhill from there.