publishers generally foot the bill for marketing. so if nintendo pays for marketing saying metroid prime 3 is revolutionary, and it ends up not being revolutionary... yes, you can absolutely blame nintendo for misleading advertising. that's the point. whether or not arenanet themselves tagged their own product using the "r" word, ncsoft had final say in all the marketing and PR.

and anyway, the bottom line is that in that post he rips on SWTOR while using GW2 as a positive counter-example, and i was simply pointing out that GW2 is suffering from many of the same pitfalls *as we speak* (very positive reviews initially followed quickly by boredom and rapidly declining log ins, etc.)- it was just never based on a subscription model, so it won't be considered as much of a disappointment.

while gw2 isn't suffering from exactly the same illness, the symptoms are pretty much the same.