ASA finds Square-Enix guilty of using misleading FFXIII 360 ad

[themanwithnoname]

Euphoria14 said:

themanwithnoname said:

Euphoria14 said:

If you did it I could care less. You're the only one in this thread turning this into a PS3 vs. 360 multiplat argument instead of actually focusing on the the reasoning for the article.

I've gotta tell you, I love how many people on these boards apparently have gotten a degree in using strawmen. Why don't you go read the part I bolded, specifically the last part, and tell me that I'm trying to turn this into a multiplat argument. Oh hell, I'll spell it out for you. My point is, the first paragraph is a bunch of nonsense, because about 99% of multiplats are exactly the same now. Maybe if this happened to 100 other games advertised for the 360 would this hurt Microsoft, but do you honestly think anybody outside of gaming boards actually cares? That's my point. Not some "The Xbox 360 has better looking multiplat games than the PS3" BS argument that you've strawmanned me into having.

I did read it and you went from an anonymous analysts opinion of why it could hurt MS to talking about how people are crazy if they think that a plethora of "superior" multiplats will end up on PS3. Here it is:

"it was one of the rare exceptions that the PS3 version was actually "superior" to the 360 one, so anybody acting like this is going to happen a plethora of times in the future is kidding themselves."

So, did I read it wrong? The way I read it could easily be read the same way, especially with the quotation marks around "superior". If I did read it wrong I apologize, but cut the condescending shit. You don't need to "Spell out" anything for me. 

This whole thing could have been avoided by you simply saying that your plethora statement had to do with misleading commercials and not multiplat quality.

 

What I am saying that if a commercial is deemed as misleading, every person involved "could" experience negative backlash, this is why the analyst said what he did.

Again, NOT what I said at all. I was pretty clearly referring to a company using footage from the version of another game and advertising it as the other version. That won't happen again in the future. Why? Because all multiplats are equal. Maybe I wouldn't act condescending if you would stop twisting my arguments into a flame war where there isn't one.