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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reinhart" data-source="post: 6731828" data-attributes="member: 13080">Regardless of its intent, marketing that results in its customers having the wrong impression of the product is, by definition, misleading. Just glancing at the steam community for this game shows a lot of people who ended up with different expectations than the reality. I'm naturally skeptical of advertising, but even I got the impression from the ads that this would be more like Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights. It's only when I looked into the game before buying it that I found it to be radically different from how it was portrayed in its press releases. The consternation of those people who pre-ordered the game and found out it was totally different from what they were told came as absolutely no surprise here. I suspect that the game's developers were very aware of the differences between D&D and their own RPG, but I don't think the developers wanted to sell their game as something it's not. Someone in a marketing role, either at Digital Extremes or Hasbro, made that decision, and it's solely the reason why people are so upset about this game. And if you think this is a problem with the public and not the marketing for the product, then you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of marketing and advertising. That's like a weather forecaster blaming the weather for why his predictions are so bad.</blockquote>