Breja: It's very simple, really. When you hear "new shooter from the creators of Doom" do you expect a first person shooter, or a third person cover based shooter? So with a new RPG from the company famous for The Witcher, everyone expected it to be more like hat game they know and love. That's also what happens when you basically don't tell the audience anything at all about your game for like five years - they end desiging the game for themselves in their heads, and you end up competing with whatever they imagined. And you're unlikely to measure up, and if you went in a radically different direction, there's backlash.

Basically, people feel like they're not getting what they were promised. That's not actually true, but that's what it feels like to them.

anothername: 'cause they, experienced and known for great TPP games, said its aimed to be both TPP/FPP years ago & ppl loving TPP gameplay getting hyped for it. That should probably be pretty clear by now. Nearly nobody would had made a fuzz about it if they had announced it as FPS in the beginning; hell a few of the ppl being disappointed now for not having a TPP experience might have even checked it out if they never had any foundation to expect it to begin with.

Its not a backlash to the FPS-RPG; its the backlash to not be an TPP RPG.

Confusion cleared up? :)

anothername: And when you try to start to get why they assumed you might begin to be less confused about the unexpected big backlash. I hope. :(