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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mephistopheles" data-source="post: 4029167" data-attributes="member: 4460">I don't think there's anything wrong with them talking up the positives. As has been mentioned elsewhere the criticisms stay in house for review and development. This is what you expect from WotC during the development of the product.The issue here has been when people not employed by WotC comment with no indication that they're restricted in what they can say. So the view the public gets is that there are people independent of the company commenting and they only have positive things to say. I think a simple disclaimer such as "We've been given clearance to talk about aspects of 4E we're giving the thumbs up. Our criticisms are channeled to WotC RPG R&D for them to consider for improvement." would have made clear the ground rules they were commenting under and may have avoided the negativity it's ended up generating.In my opinion it was a bad call but I don't buy the argument that there was any malicious intent to deceive the community on the part of WotC or those who commented. Part of why this is still going may be how WotC has responded to the criticism, but that's speculation on my part because aside from considering it on a matter of general principle I was not too bothered by it to begin with. I guess my habit of trying to avoid marketing influence has a lot to do with that though.</blockquote>