Yesterday I was using the Google Play Store and I saw this.

This seems misleading for a few reasons:
1. "Download now" implies that it's free, when it's actually $8 on the marketplace.
2. "Animals in Minecraft!" is also confusing because it implies that it's a paid mod or paid update where you have to pay for animals ingame, as opposed to a community-made paid map with animals. Also, Minecraft already has animals, so saying "Animals in Minecraft!" implies that you cannot have animals without paying.
3. It says that the event ends in 5 days, but the map will actually stay on the marketplace forever. The "5 days" is misleading because it makes you think that you have to buy it within the next 5 days.
I think it is exploitative to abuse the Google Play event system like this. It should be used for things like "marketplace summer sale - ends in 10 days" or "play the game to get a free deep-sea mashup pack - ends in 3 days" (both of which happened this year). However, it should not be used to randomly advertise marketplace maps. It's not an "event", it's a misleading advertisement. I don't have any major complaints with the marketplace itself, but this is crossing the line between reasonable and exploitative.
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