I dunno. I find most marketing these days to be misleading. This one was more to spread word of the game itself and it worked.

Most MMO's from what I can see look dated, even FF XIV, which has been around for some years now.

Not sure what RDR2 can bring when it's only on consoles, while this one is on PC. I think it will be fair to compare once RDR2 lands on PC (if R* ever bother that is).

I don't know about that. You do have a point but I don't think it's as bad as you say. And this is still different since this is based on misleading media instead of consumers directly. Media was made to believe this was something this really isn't.

This is still a form of misleading people, yes, but there are other adverts out there that mislead in roughly the same way. Take for example the recent release of the new Alien movie, the trailer had content in it that never actually showed up in the final release. I find that quite misleading, as some of those scenes showed some importance (like the crew getting together and sharing their thoughts, which doesn't really happen in the movie thanks to an abrupt accident).

Oh, I'm sure misleading marketing happens and is quite common. It's just that I don't think I've run into too much blatantly misleading marketing, so I don't think the majority of marketing is misleading. A lot of marketing sure spins things really hard and tries to put the good sides of a product on a pedestal, but I wouldn't quite classify that as misleading.

YEah I can't remember for the longest time as to seeing this specific type of tactic being used.

I tend to find the focus on something that isn't quite there, but trying to pass it off as if it is, as the type that can be misleading for some.

I hope the new game has more plains, mountain and forest settings.

The desert can get boring lol

Reminds me of everytime someone makes a "nintendo clone" such as the 2d breath of the wild, or other rip-offs using Nintendo's ip's. A pokemon "whatever". Some localization efforts, ect.

Nintendo comes outa nd shuts down the project when it is near completion or something and that one person dev gets all this free publicity by internet sites and internet people because they all love to hate on the big company and support the poor one person dev just making a game he loves.

Yet the people do this on purpose. They take their rip-off game that they got huge free press for and rename characters and change the skins of things. So it's still basically a clone, yet now its their "own" game. Yet their free publicity got them people watching them, possibly kick starterting, ect. All of which would not have happened if they didn't get publicity by doing something illegal.

Heck there was an interview with one of the people who flat out says he did this on purpose. He used Nintendo's IP's for his skin of the game to get free press, with he ultimate goal of always creating his own game.

Just think back on all clone games that get in trouble. How often do you hear them say, "the ultimate goal is to make our own game"