Dishonest Trailer

"Pegasys;c-16822556" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-16821573" wrote:
I don’t really understand the “it happened before so it’s perfectly ok” comments. Yes it happened before and no that doesn’t make it ok. It just means it happened before (and I actually have felt deceived by some of it in the past). I suppose the rules might be different in different countries? In my country a company who sells butter had to change their advertising that claimed their product was ‘cholesterol-lowering’ for instance.

It's not okay, but in this particular instance, the misleading part of the trailer the OP points out was so much smaller (specifically: crowd background sound) than other much more overtly misleading Sims trailers (animations/gameplay that doesn't exist in game at all, many more sims on lot than is possible without an unmodded game, etc.).

For all we know that background sound might be in the game by the way? Yes, one of the times I remember feeling deceived was when they showed a couple in a romantic pose on a bench we didn’t have yet (Sims 3, I believe advertising for University). I loved it (and I always found the one in the game a bit stiff) and it seriously left me kind of angry the pack didn’t have that animation after all. There’s also the infamous female hairstyle in the trailer (not the trailer, on a render) for Late Night and of course that trailer was very misleading over all.