I think your analogy is too narrow.Yeah, those people. It-s like when there is a ball and some people in shorts kicking it around and you win by putting the ball into some rectangular nets at the ends of the field and they're "A football game! It's a football game!".
It's more like that there's an (inflated) object and people in two teams are running around putting it into something.
It could indeed be football.
Or basketball, handball, american football, gaelic football, rugby, field hockey, ice hockey,…
Well, I personally just trust CDPR at this point. They haven't given me a reason not to trust them that it's going to be an RPG.Anyone knows that is a RPG since the developers introduced RPG elements even though they showed no footage of it whatsoever and all we ever saw was people in shorts kicking a ball around.
However I know that my trust might be disappointed. The game after CP77 won't be a pre-order for me then.