This game may be violating truth in advertising laws

[FlyingV]

It pays to be very clear here. The advertising is listed above with a 3-5* guarantee of any class w a chance to win an X-mas soul. Every soul yields a 3* or better. Some souls are christmas characters (I and others have them as proof). Thus, the adverising is true.

Where we have an area regarding deception is that (as far as I am aware) there have been no honest representations of the odds. Consider these hypothetical odds:

3:4 3* magus/sentinel/warrior
1:10 3* gunner/assassin
1:100 4* any class
1:1,000 5* any class
1:100 3* X-mas toon
1:10,000 Coalgiver Eddie

If these were factual, if these were disclosed, and if one had a soul motivation (pun) to spend $/resources for coalgiver, advance disclosure may dissuade any gamble or expenditure of resources given 1:10,000 odds. Concealing these odds is the deception.

We all know there is a lottery system, but none knows how narrow the odds are. This is the idea in contracts where the meeting of the minds are required for a valid transaction. If one spends under the impression that a game of chance is 1:100 but the odds really are 1:50,000, there is no meeting of the minds. This is what is problematic about this game for me, and it may/may not have future ramifications down the line.

lotteries have posted prize odds. There was earlier discussion of China requiring these games to post odds for similar reasons. This is where the point of contention lies... not from "false advertising" but "deceptive advertising" (the willful concealment of known odds on the basis that publication may negatively affect sales).

[ErikInVegas]

The courts in Australia didn't rule against Valve because the statements were false. The courts ruled against Valve because the ads were misleading.

The courts in China are expected to be even stricter and when the courts rule in the various US states some are expected to include not just penalties but injunctions against sales.

[FlyingV]

Fair enough, but while your point may have merit, your understanding of the issue is completely off...

What do you consider not true or misleading ?

They're advertising "Christmas Souls" but what most people get is not Christmas Souls.

Say you buy a box that says PlayStation. You get it home and it contains a brick instead.

That's clearly fraud.

They are NOT advertising X-mas souls (i.e., buy Xmas soul, receive Xmas character). They ARE advertising a chance for an Xmas soul, or 3-5* character from any class. Hence, you seem to misunderstand the clear wording of the promo and misconstrue the ad itself as fraud.

Again, the REAL issue is that people don't know what they are buying... not because of the "misleading words of the ad" as you put it, but because they are not forthcoming about the odds, which if disclosed may cost them many sales due to the potential remoteness of scoring certain desirable characters.

[ErikInVegas]

Fair enough, but while your point may have merit, your understanding of the issue is completely off...

They are NOT advertising X-mas souls (i.e., buy Xmas soul, receive Xmas character). They ARE advertising a chance for an Xmas soul, or 3-5* character from any class. Hence, you seem to misunderstand the clear wording of the promo and misconstrue the ad itself as fraud.

Again, the REAL issue is that people don't know what they are buying... not because of the "misleading words of the ad" as you put it, but because they are not forthcoming about the odds, which if disclosed may cost them many sales due to the potential remoteness of scoring certain desirable characters.

When people thought they were clever selling XBox boxes on ebay what did the police do to those people?

Why?

How does ebay treat these types of auctions today?

Why?

They're not being clever, they're just being dishonest and if they don't police themselves eventually the government will step in and do it.

[Vertax616]

When people thought they were clever selling XBox boxes on ebay what did the police do to those people?

Why?

How does ebay treat these types of auctions today?

Why?

They're not being clever, they're just being dishonest and if they don't police themselves eventually the government will step in and do it.

I don't understand the logic you have here. Using your exemple, they don't sell Xbox boxes. They sell tickets that gives various consoles like Gameboys, Nintento Wii's etc.
But these tickets have greater chance for getting "XBox". They don't guarantee that you will "definetly" get an Xbox.

[FlyingV]

When people thought they were clever selling XBox boxes on ebay what did the police do to those people?

Why?

How does ebay treat these types of auctions today?

Why?

They're not being clever, they're just being dishonest and if they don't police themselves eventually the government will step in and do it.

Take these "people" you are are supposedly referring to...

Did such ads say the the following or something substantially similar:

Here's your chance to win an X-box for only $__! That's right, you have a guaranteed chance of getting the box with not shit in it, but your bid could also win you an X-box game, a controller or even the complete X-box!




If these ads did not have language to the exact same effect as what I wrote (and we both know they did NOT), then your analogy does not apply whatsoever.

Why? Because the promo you are bitching about does not say "Win Christmas eddie or a holiday character with an Xmas soul" with no further language whatsoever, though I am beginning to think that is as far as you have bothered to read/retain. If they showed Holiday characters and said "only available through holiday souls" with no further explanation about the promo, your analogy would apply where someone takes a picture of a box with no explanation that there is no console within. However, it is very clear from the EXPLICIT language of the promo that participants stand a chance to win a 3* - 5* character from any class, including gunners and assassins, UNLIKE those ads you claim, which merely show the picture with no explanation that it is merely the box.





This is the second time I have spent time fully explaining this for you now. There will not be a third time. If you can't understand it by this point, you either have a serious reading comprehension issue or you aren't even bothering to fully read the responses made to your thread.

[Hypnos]

This is the second time I have spent time fully explaining this for you now.[/U] There will not be a third time. If you can't understand it by this point, you either have a serious reading comprehension issue or...

Something tells me you wouldn't make a great maths tutor, FlyingV!

Seriously though, if he can't grasp this whole concept then he's either just stubborn or a troll.

[konstifik]

it is entirely possible you could never get what you want from an infinite number of souls.

I don't think you grasp the concept of infinity.