>>>     What a waste of money. This should be illegal.
>
>> Blatantly misleading advertising? Yeah, I was under the impression it
>> *is* illegal...
>
>    Well, technically speaking there *is* a single-player mode, and when
> the back cover description is vague enough and doesn't explicitly mention
> anything resembling a normal single-player story mode...

This is what annoys me about a lot of advertising today. They make a 
whole bunch of statements, which clearly leaves the average person with 
the impression that "they said X". But if you examine the individual 
sentences with a fine tooth comb, it turns out they only actually said 
"Y", which is something fundamentally different. And this is somehow 
*acceptable*??

The trouble is, of course, if you say X, some crazy hobo somewhere will 
claim that you suggested Y and try to sue you. And that's probably why 
these cases end up being judged on what the advert /literally/ said, 
completely ignoring all the things it very strongly and repeatedly 
/implied/, because they're so subjective.

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