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Zkuq on 13 May 2017
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Chazore said:
Zkuq said:

I don't know about that. You do have a point but I don't think it's as bad as you say. And this is still different since this is based on misleading media instead of consumers directly. Media was made to believe this was something this really isn't.

This is still a form of misleading people, yes, but there are other adverts out there that mislead in roughly the same way. Take for example the recent release of the new Alien movie, the trailer had content in it that never actually showed up in the final release. I find that quite misleading, as some of those scenes showed some importance (like the crew getting together and sharing their thoughts, which doesn't really happen in the movie thanks to an abrupt accident).

Oh, I'm sure misleading marketing happens and is quite common. It's just that I don't think I've run into too much blatantly misleading marketing, so I don't think the majority of marketing is misleading. A lot of marketing sure spins things really hard and tries to put the good sides of a product on a pedestal, but I wouldn't quite classify that as misleading.