{"id":34358,"date":"2012-03-17T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=34358"},"modified":"2012-03-18T19:16:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T17:16:56","slug":"disgruntled-me3-gamer-files-false-advertising-complaint-against-ea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/34358-disgruntled-me3-gamer-files-false-advertising-complaint-against-ea","title":{"rendered":"Disgruntled ME3 gamer files false advertising complaint against EA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems no one was particularly thrilled about the ending of Mass Effect 3, with a wave of protest crashing across the internet soon after the game\u2019s release. Frankly, people kind of hated it.<\/p>\n<p>However this level of dissatisfaction has reached a new extreme \u2013 one disgruntled gamer has filed an FTC (Federal Trade Commission) complaint against EA for what he says is \u201cfalse advertising\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In his own words, \u201cAfter reading through the list of promises about the ending of the game they made in their advertising campaign and PR interviews, it was clear that the product we got did not live up to any of those claims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not something I was happy to do, but after the terrible ending that was in no way the product that had been advertised to me and the lack of any kind of response from Bioware\/EA to address this, I felt it was one of my only recourses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was posted in a forum thread on the BioWare website, which at time of writing is currently sitting at 27 pages, with many posters showing support for the movement.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, it\u2019ll certainly get EA\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the forum post <a title=\"Bioware Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/social.bioware.com\/forum\/1\/topic\/355\/index\/10065503\/1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"BioWare keeping mum until more people finish Mass Effect 3\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34304-bioware-keeping-mum-until-more-people-finish-mass-effect-3.html\"><strong>BioWare keeping mum until more people finish Mass Effect 3<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"BioWare knows you hate Mass Effect 3\u2032s ending\" href=\"..\/news\/34206-bioware-knows-you-hate-mass-effect-3s-ending.html\">BioWare knows you hate Mass Effect 3\u2032s ending<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Mass Effect 3 ending change petition also supports charity\" href=\"..\/news\/34089-mass-effect-3-ending-change-petition-also-supports-charity.html\">Mass Effect 3 ending change petition also supports charity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"New Mass Effect 3 multiplayer stuff incoming?\" href=\"..\/news\/34043-rumour-control-new-mass-effect-3-multiplayer-stuff-incoming.html\">New Mass Effect 3 multiplayer stuff incoming?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"BioWare tries to explain Mass Effect 3\u2032s controversial ending\" href=\"..\/news\/34086-bioware-tries-to-explain-mass-effect-3s-controversial-ending.html\">BioWare tries to explain Mass Effect 3\u2032s controversial ending<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Mass Effect 3 ships 3.5 million\" href=\"..\/news\/33949-mass-effect-3-ships-3-5-million.html\">Mass Effect 3 ships 3.5 million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He REALLY didn&#8217;t like the ending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":33756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[31,427,813,423,2761],"class_list":["post-34358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-bioware","tag-electronic-arts","tag-mass-effect-3","tag-mass-effect-3-ending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34374,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34358\/revisions\/34374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}