What objective? You're not making any sense. The reason to follow a game is surely not to be fooled by the developer in the end, and it's certainly not up to you to decide the reason why people invest time in following a game over several years.
Fooled? What about thinking that people who spend time watching teasers invest time? That is not fooling oneself?
People spend time and get what they want: material to fancy over.
Teasers are teasers, teasing is teasing, the principle is to showcase a product in the best light possible with all the required make up.
No one gets away with this. See Watch Dogs, same with the removal of dynamic shadows in Oblivion. Google Oblivion downgrade or Watch Dogs downgrade, same discussions.
Noone? What about Bethesda and the release of Skyrim? Was it mentioned already? If not, again, the same repeating: Up to release, Bethesda promoted Skyrim through features like procedural AI for dragons giving them adaptative behaviour, (dragons were, of course, not a big selling point for Skyrim), a virtual economy that could be influenced by the destruction of major production buildings etc
And that is only Bethesda. Some other studios, when critical input was released, were protected from the shit, threads went locked and people invited to move their discussion elsewhere.
So noone? By the way, since it is about lying. What about the claim that no one was given a free pass while having been mentioned twice already that Bethesda was given a free pass for Skyrim?
You're just arguing for the sake of arguing, because I highly doubt you think it's good that developers are lying, no matter if it's Bethesda, CDPR or anyone else. It's not like it helps you as a customer in any way.
Helping me as a customer?
The whole thing was exposed before release. People who spent time following the product should have noticed. If they wanted to help themselves as customers, they had the bits of information in hand.
In my case, CDR projekt went out to tell they wanted to make a product to tell a story. And what kind of story that is, the kind that so called RPgers love and consider top class litterature, full of interesting characters and written in subtlety as it cant fail to mention that it is a world of gray shades etc
Gameplay: been a while that the new standard for that combat was exposed on this site. Did not expect otherwise and it was confirmed by two streamers.
The only remaining selling point was the way the gameworld ticks. Some time ago, the hypothesis that CDR Projekt would rely heavily on pseudo behaviours was emitted. And confirmed at release.
No selling point for me as a gamer.
CDR projekt did their job.
Contrary to some crowdfunded projects that keep getting protected while using methods that stink much more than what CDR has done.
That is the crux of the issue here: introducing lying as a bad practice, why not? Then it should be castigated every time. Not on double standards as it is happening.
People on this site gave a free pass to Bethesda, crowdfunded projects are constantly protected with in some cases, locked threads and people invited to move their critics elsewhere.
As it appears now, lying is not bad for developpers. It is only bad when the likes of CDR projekt do it.
