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<blockquote data-quote="CountPopeula" data-source="post: 4434100" data-attributes="member: 27250">I think the bottom line is, no matter how much you may want to be apologist for Wizards of the Coast or shift the lame to Hasbro or whatever, when a company says they're going to do something and they don't do it, it reflects poorly on the company. Even if you like the company, the very best light you can cast this sort of thing in is that they were irresponsible in making statements about a game that wasn't done yet.A lot of the sentiment seems to be &quot;Well, they can say whatever they want about what their products are going to contain, and if you get mad it bears no resemblance to the end product, then you're being an ass.&quot;When a company makes a statement about what the product they're selling to you for money is going to be, it's just bad business if it doesn't. And saying that they don't have to be held to anything they say about a product until the final product is 100% complete... well, things do change, but I know if a company said &quot;this book will contain X&quot; and I was really looking forward to X, then two days before it came out they said &quot;Oh yeah, we got rid of X&quot; I wouldn't buy it, no matter how good the final product was.I certainly wouldn't go on the internet and defend the company's right to use something as a selling point and marketing tool for months and months to build hype for their product and then fail to deliver it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CountPopeula, post: 4434100, member: 27250"] I think the bottom line is, no matter how much you may want to be apologist for Wizards of the Coast or shift the lame to Hasbro or whatever, when a company says they're going to do something and they don't do it, it reflects poorly on the company. Even if you like the company, the very best light you can cast this sort of thing in is that they were irresponsible in making statements about a game that wasn't done yet. A lot of the sentiment seems to be "Well, they can say whatever they want about what their products are going to contain, and if you get mad it bears no resemblance to the end product, then you're being an ass." When a company makes a statement about what the product they're selling to you for money is going to be, it's just bad business if it doesn't. And saying that they don't have to be held to anything they say about a product until the final product is 100% complete... well, things do change, but I know if a company said "this book will contain X" and I was really looking forward to X, then two days before it came out they said "Oh yeah, we got rid of X" I wouldn't buy it, no matter how good the final product was. I certainly wouldn't go on the internet and defend the company's right to use something as a selling point and marketing tool for months and months to build hype for their product and then fail to deliver it. [/QUOTE]

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