I mean, its "Larian game" after all ... so its first and before anything else should fulfill Larian vision ... at least that is how i see it, feel free to throw a rock if you feel the urge.
Okay:
No. That's not acceptable.
First and Before Anything Else, they must deliver the game that is being, advertised and pitched and sold. Their vision is irrelevant if that former condition is not fulfilled. If they deliver their vision, but in doing so they do not deliver that former condition, then they have failed, and worse than that, they will have deceived, and defrauded people.
If a company hires you to create "Better Gardening 3", the long anticipated third instalment in the much acclaimed Better Gardening series.... a game series much beloved as a video game simulation of a story based gardening system that takes you on an exciting adventure in gardening... and this company hires you on to make Better Gardening 3 using their latest system evolution of garden simulation, Digging & Dirt 5th Edition... and you agree to do that, but your previous games involved explosions everywhere, silly voices and cartoonish violence... and so your vision moving forward is to make a game with more of the same, because that was really popular with your existing audience... and what you ultimately produce and launch is Worms Armageddon: Garden Warfare... a game that doesn't really feel like Better Gardening, or really Gardening at all, or playing with Digging and Dirt in any real way.... then I'm sorry, but "You followed your vision", and "It's digging in the dirt, isn't it? It's just doing it in a way that we think is more fun!" is not, in any way, an adequate defence of your failure to deliver the product you were hired to produce, or your fraudulent misrepresentation in your advertising that was used to draw in the crowds of players who came for the Better Gardening series, or for a Digging and Dirt simulator... If you hadn't ever intended to produce those things then you should not have taken the contract, and you definitely should not have advertised that that was what you were making. Vision, in this situation, is of secondary importance, and the overall product delivered should not bend to it so far that it no longer matches the original commission as advertised.
Don't get me wrong: Worms is a great game series. I love it. I genuinely do... And if this theoretical company had advertised that they were making a new Worms game, I might have been excited for it, in its own way. But it's not what was advertised, so it's not what I came here FOR, in this case. I don't care if they say that this was their vision for the series: That's no apology and no excuse for failing to deliver the original stated goal.
