>>11859156
That's more accurate, and hell, he had some fucking REAL cred to back him which is why he managed to build hype in the first place.
Molyneux wasn't just some nobody who suddenly showed up somewhere making claims, people were taken in on his promises BECAUSE he had a bunch of history in a lot of well received games.

It's a bit like John Romero, legit a good level designer who also has a few other dev chops (like programming, he wrote the level editing software for Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, along some other code on those games which weren't about rendering), but he mismanaged the FUCK out of Ion Storm, promising to the high heavens and with aggressive and boastful advertising, but which then after years of high profile drama came out with Dai-Katana as quite a mess of a game.

Neither are used car salesmen, in fact they almost certainly believed their own hype, which was part of the problem.