Originally Posted by Niara
There is no 'out of context' here, Wormerine - this is what was said, and it is at worst directly false and at best deliberately misleading. What context are you supposing that changes this? If you are asking that we functionally disregard the words that were actually said, in favour of making assumptions about what they theoretically mean to communicate instead, based on pre-marketing footage, that's not good enough... what was said matters, and what was said was both clear in its intention, and also inaccurate to what was then presented.
I feel "being mislead" is a personal experience. I just never perceived BG3 as being advertised as a faithful 5e adaptation. Then again, I knew Larian well enough to assume BG3 won't be a "good" Baldur's Gate sequel as soon as I heard the rumors. I suppose that due to my unfamiliarity with 5e and familiarity with Larian and BG IP I might be incapable what others might have hoped for when seeing the advertisments.