so they wanted to associate themselves with X-com success...despite it being a completely different game...shocking.
And do you think it is the developers making the US version of the box? Or deciding what's to be written on them?
You see, it's the publisher that is making the box. Cenega is the European publisher, and there are no quotes on it. But it was published by Tri Synergy in the US, and they (or possibly Cenega) decided that this box should be full of idiotic quotes like that. Don't think that did much good for the sales over there, and it only helped annoy people that thus expected it to be identical to X-Com.
But whoever is the fault of this, it surely isn't ALTAR (the developer). As you say, they have said since the beginning that this is not an X-Com game. They never said it isn't inspired by X-Com (which any fool can tell it is), and it was originally the Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge game, developed by the Gollop brothers, creators of X-Com.
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