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On the other hand, if you want to present it to 12 million jump-scare loving kiddies through their favourite Youtube screamer so you can chisel money out of them, don't be disappointed if they hate the game because it wasn't what they expected.

You're missing my point. It wasn't FG who advertised the game that way. They just wanted Pewdie as well as other Yotubers to present the game out there. How they presented it was completely up to them.

It was also completely third-party interpreting, and not representative of how FG themselves were advertising the game. Think of it this way: Pewdie can make the game look like a jump-scare fest while someone else can make it look like a 100% story-driven game without scares. It's all up to how the person playing it/showing it wants to show it.

If you buy a game based off of someone else's interpretation of it you have to keep in mind that it was how a non-dev, third-party who played it, and may not be the same as how they showed it at all. Consumers have to keep that in mind.

It is essentially the same thing as you watching your friend play a game at their house except at a much larger scale. For example if you were watching your friend play Amnesia, and he was jumping up, and down from playing it, cracking jokes, and making it look like a hilarious game...is it really? It's simply how he presented it, and it may very well be misleading to what the final thing turns out to be under your own experience...or at least how one appreciates it.

Simply put...if someone is disappointed with a purchase they made off of how someone else experienced it it may very well have been their own fault for not doing enough research. The disappointment/backlash would be understandable if it was the devs who marketed the game this way, but if you're basing it off of a third party who has nothing to do with them who played it...then not so much.