Speaking of bad marketing. Ok, so this might be me hallucinating or misremembering events back then (it was 16 years ago and my ADHD butt has issues recalling clearly what happened 3 years ago).
I swear I remember reading something back when 4e was coming out, where some of the designers said that if you were using skills outside of combat you were "playing the game wrong". Now in hindsight, they might have been talking about skill challenges and were being misunderstood. However I remember this clearly as the quote "playing the game wrong" royally pissed off everyone in my campus RPG club, and I've run into people who swear they remember that quote as well. But...sigh..."Berenstain Bears" if you know what I mean. I've never found a record of it so...
So am I crazy or does anyone else remember this? And if so, what from??? Because I remember that this really pissed us off back then and was one of the reasons why we didn't give 4e a second glance when it first came out.