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JWeinCom on 09 April 2020
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Angelus said:
JWeinCom said:

Whenever anyone else is selling vanilla ice cream, they mean vanilla ice cream.  While vanilla ice cream can be made differently, nobody says vanilla ice cream when they mean vanilla ice cream with chocolate chunks thrown in.  

Personally, I wouldn't mind as I like chocolate chunks. I'd even prefer it.

Other people hate chocolate chunks, and would not have bought the ice cream if they knew chocolate chunks were in it.  By advertising your product as vanilla ice cream, they reasonably believed there would be no chocolate chunks, based on the common understanding of the words.  They would therefore feel justifiably ripped off by your chocolate chunk tainting the vanilla ice cream they were promised.

I guess I should have put a wink or something at the end of that post.

I totally understand the misgivings some people are having with the marketing of this game. I suppose I just don't think it's the key factor in the negative reactions that some of you do. If the alterations that were made to story, advertised or no, were generally seen as an improvement, or at least an interesting deviation, there would be some foul called for the advertising, but I don't believe it would happen to the same degree. What's happened here, is that the changes are seen as nonsensical, and playing off the director's ego, rather than the spirit of the original material. That's what I think is really rubbing people the wrong way here, and the sting of that wouldn't be lessened for those people even if Square had called it something other than a remake. 

Definitely fewer people would be upset if they thought the changes were good.  After all, if I have an online date, and the girl shows up looking much hotter than her picture, I'm probably not going to complain.  

Some people would have been unhappy either way.  Some people will be disappointed because something isn't what is advertised, and some people will be unhappy just because something isn't good period.  When you combine those two elements though, then you make things a lot worse.