Why are those long in-app game ads always misleading/showing a completely different game than what it actually is. Why would a company choose, marketing-wise, to put money and effort into an add that doesn’t represent its product at all?

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Why are those long in-app game ads always misleading/showing a completely different game than what it actually is. Why would a company choose, marketing-wise, to put money and effort into an add that doesn’t represent its product at all?

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Answer 1

I would genuinely like to play a simple, clean, non-laggy colour sorting or block matching game, like I used to spend all my time doing on Neopets 20 years ago. I see mobile ads for them all the time, but I’ve never downloaded an actual game because I’m sure it’ll also be an ad-ridden, slow, unpleasant mess.

Any recommendations for actually decent versions of those games are very welcome 🙂 I currently spend most of my time on Slitherlink, I Love Hue and Atomas.