Can I sue Blizzard for false advertising as I thought that I would be allowed to play the game when I bought it instead of being slept stunned frozen and trapped?
Edit: I guess people don’t understand my metaphor or whatever and think that I actually want to sue them and they should be smartasses? I was trying to be clever by saying that CC IMO is too prominent and before you say it yes I have a Hammond profile pic.
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I mean you can try.
It might be not worth the hassle, the money and the time, since you won’t win.
But hey, why not?
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They don’t have any money to give me if I win anyways 
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I mean, you’d have a better argument if you sued them for false advertisement last year, because it took them a little over 2 years to actually advertise the game as, you know, a PVP only game. For the first 2 years they advertised it like it was a story based game, which it clearly isn’t, hell it doesn’t even have a story, which means it was false advertisement. You’d still lose the lawsuit, but you’d have a better case then this.
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I’ve already initiated a class action lawsuit because the marketing promised that I could switch heroes on the fly. I’ve scoured every map and THERE IS NO FLY.
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Yes, you should definitely do this with your very real lawyer. I can’t wait to read about it in the Mom’s Basement Times!
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That is completely false and no where does it need to have your kind of story, there is plenty of lore and comics + story on the side, that was in turn also related and linked in game and we have a multitude of PvE missions with loads of story elements. So again being mad is not justification for making up boggus claims.
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they will give you ingame coins
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You can sue em for any reason you want, in fact. It all depends on how much $$$ youre willing to spend on your little entertainment.
I mean, people sue the GOD himself. What chances little indie company Blizzard has?
I believe there actually was a real case where someone tried to sue Satan, I believe that case went as well as you’d expect.
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You’re right, games don’t need to have a story mode to have a story, however if game doesn’t have a story mode, then your advertisements shouldn’t be advertising the story, they should advertising the game. It took almost 2 years before Blizzard started advertising using gameplay instead of cinematic cutscenes clipped together.
Sure, but none of that is in-game and as such the initial advertisements shouldn’t have been promoting the lore, as the lore has 0 place in the actual game, as the game itself, as stated by Michael Chu (I think it was him, I know one of the devs said it), is non-canon. So again, there is no problem having tie-in comics and lore, but when advertising the game, you should actually advertise the game, not stuff that has nothing to do with the game itself.
This is false. We have 4 PvE missions, and all 4 of which are locked behind an event, and aren’t available through-out the year. And they weren’t there when the game first launched, because they were event game modes. Sure, it’s perfectly acceptable to advertise the event when the event is either about to start or is currently running, however advertising the event when it just ended, or it’s nowhere near time for that, and making it seem like the game has story missions available year round is false advertisement.
No, it’s not a “bogus claim”. Is it a claim that would hold up in court? No, probably not because who the hell cares? However, when you’re advertising a product, regardless of what that is, and you blatantly lie about what your product is, then that is false advertising. Imagine, as an example, if McDonald’s advertised their Big Macs as though they were made of chicken when in reality it’s beef, that’d be false advertising. Or a better example, when a soda claims it doesn’t contain sugar in that soda’s advertisements, when it in fact does contain sugar. Overwatch was initially advertised as though it had a story mode, when it in fact doesn’t. I don’t think you can sue over it, or at the very least you’d lose and just waste your time and money, especially since Blizzard did finally start advertising their game using in-game footage instead of relying on their cinematics to make their game seem like something it isn’t, and again it’s not really a big deal in my opinion. However it’s still false advertisement, just harmless, no point crying about it false advertisements, since all you had to do to not be duped is look at the back of the box to know what you were getting.
Good way to showcase this whole post, completely irrelevant, even when you tried to make it seem so, now move on.
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If im a lawyer i would like to do your
Case as pro bono and i would like people
To come to me and try to sue blizzard for rediculous reasons as well! Sounds fun!
You clearly didn’t read a thing I wrote. I’m not surprised, you clearly think you’re right and everyone else is wrong without even bothering to listen to the other side, or even provide a proper counter argument. Here’s a tip, free of charge; throwing out insults (Not claiming you did), having blind loyalty, and not providing evidence while acting like you’re superior is not how you debate someone, it’s how you make fool of yourself.
I read it all, most of it is you justifying what you feel “Story” “PvE” etc is, or how you can advertise it, clearly trailers and cinematics are banned in your eyes and it should be gameplay only, well fine, but no one agrees with that so go on.
Also making up strawmen is bad, same for all the insults of things i never did, all in all you really are sad to listen to.
“Providing evidence” you litterally proved me right with the statement i gave you, nothing of your mentally incapable opinions would hold in court, nobody even agrees with the drastic opinion you have either. So move on, you´re sad to keep on wasting time on.
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I would imagine you could hold some ground if you had fired a lawsuit last year in the middle of goats meta, while their poster figure was unplayable for a good while.
You’re clearly misunderstanding, be it a failure on my part of being more clear, or you being too stubborn, everything I stated. First off; what is story? Well, it’s the lore, essentially, and it does have its place. In advertising, it drums up hype and or fleshes out a world to make it more appealing. However, while advertising you can’t just rely on those cinematics to sell your game, especially if your game isn’t story focused. You need to use gameplay to show consumers what they’re getting into, otherwise they’ll feel lied to. That’s part of why I call Blizzard’s initial advertising strategy of not using gameplay and only using cinematics as false advertising. It qualifies as “failure to disclose”, in this case “failure to disclose what the game is about”. As for “PvE”, my understanding of it is the same as everybodies: Player vs. Event. This is how most story campaigns work, you, either solo or with a other players, fighting A.I. Generally speaking, PvE, as is usually used on these forums, refers to PvE with a story to it. With this, there is only Junkenstein’s Revenge and the three Archives game modes; Uprising, Retribution, and Storm Rising. Does the game have them? Yes, but you can only play them 6 weeks out of the year. They’re not available all the time, so they should never be a selling point unless it’s time for that event. Final point, no I don’t think it should gameplay only, but it should show the gameplay and point out, clearly, that it’s a PVP only game if it’s a PVP only game.
Your claim was that my claim of false advertisement was bogus. It’s not. Their early advertisement strategy can fall under the “failure to disclose” umbrella since they didn’t provide gameplay or the knowledge the game was PVP only. However, just because something can qualify as false advertisement doesn’t necessarily mean you’d win a lawsuit over it. The only way you’d even get it past the judge is if you suffered harm as a result of false or deceptive advertising. No one is getting hurt over a video game. Do I think you can sue over it? Yes, but you can sue over any little thing it’s not really a question of if you can or not. Do I think it’d be stupid if you did? Yes, because it’s not hurting you.
Funny story i actually did contact their legal department once, well i didn’t get very far, because all of a sudden i had phone calls from blizzard support trying to appease me, that phone call lasted 2 hours, and gave me good insight into how they manage their game. I was contacting their legal department because of their policies on reports, and it really did give me some golden quotes, such as “before speaking to anyone, i would advise that you ask them if it is alright for you to speak to them, and then ask if it’s alright to adress something specific” proving that they live in complete LALA land. It’s a long story and i don’t really feel like sharing much of it, these forums aren’t a place where people listen. They are all agressive antagonistic victims.
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Just like Fallout 76.
A lawsuit!? 
Here I’m eating bacon & eggs for breakfast… but some folks be starting their day fillin their bellies with stewed pidd 
Hopefully we aren’t what we eat 