No Man's Sky being investigated for false advertising

[Johnw1104]

Nuvendil said:

Seriosuly? THIS is where they draw the line in the sand? Where were these guys when Randy Pitchford and Gearbox were shoveling bull crap about Aliens Colonial Marines?

Where was this with games that falsely advertise with blatantly unrepresentative graphics?

Or shoot, where have these guardians of the consumers been for the years of prerendered hype-mongering CG that is COMPLETELY unrepresentative of what the game is like (hello The Division).

This is good in principle, but the fact it has taken this long is bloody pathetic.  Colonial Marines STILL has unrepresentative, LYING screenshots on its Steam store page for goodness sake.  

Yeah, there's a lot of examples of false advertising. I suspect No Man's Sky is simply a victim of its own success atm, as it became universally infamous for how short they fell of what was advertised. This game initially sold like hot cakes.

Perhaps the rise and popularity of Youtube has made a difference as well... there's many millions of views of videos comparing and contrasting the pre-release and launch-day claims with the post-release results.