Do you think developers promise too much?

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It's like the circle of life. A developer with an upcoming game makes some comments about how the new game will be so much better than any contemporaries, usually specifically mentioning World of Warcraft. And it will be better because of new styles of quests that are better than what World of Warcraft does, or more character customization, or better story, or playable chupacabras. Then the game is finally released, and more often than not, while the new features are in there, the "revolutionary" aspects turn out to be lackluster at best and functionally identical to the old way of doing things at worst.

Certainly, no one realistically expects a developer to repeatedly state that the upcoming game is boring and not worth playing, but promises of killing the "kill ten rats" style of questing turn out to be rather ill-advised if you just wind up killing nine cats instead. Do you think that developers should have a bit more humility and moderation when talking about upcoming features? Or are you happy with more enthusiastic pre-release talk, even if the revolution may not happen quite on the advertised schedule?

TH

It's their job to advertise the game, unless it's definately not included like Dx10 in AoC which said on the back of the case on release, then it's okay I guess.

Nothing ever matches your imagination, just players need to understand this more instead of nerd raging.

TH

It's advertising, I don't think anyone would sell anything by saying the truth.
And that goes for everything, you don't see VW saying "The new golf, almost
identical with our previous model, we don't offer much more than the competition,
but it costs more, please buy one ". And by selling the same crap over and over
they have the money to work on and release something brilliant every once in a while.