Sorry but thats simply not how this works.
To run a blatantly false trailer that you know is a lie because you created it to show off to an executive and it's nothing but an on the rails video and not what is in the game is false advertisement. Sticking with that same trailer that you know is a lie for years and all the way up to 5 months before release and your still showing it, falls under false advertisement.
And as I said, I have no doubt even you coming late to the party. If you did even the smallest bit of research, you watched said trailer and like everyone else given bioware just showed it at their last huge PR event. Watched it and it helped sell you on the product because of what it showed.
5 months till release in a 7 year development game and your showing that trailer means they are all behind it and what it shows all the while knowing it's a lie.
What makes it worse the just how much also changed in 5 months. If it was just a couple things adjusted that would be different but that is not the case. We found out that for over 5 years they had nothing but pretended they did with that trailer. They put together a half assed game in 16 or so months and pretended it was this big game filled with what they presented and that was a lie.
The consumer has but one way to get information on games and thats from the companies and why they present the game it has to be truthful and that is not the case here for anyone that kept up with the game and I stick by my thoughts on you coming to the party late doesn't excuse the lies they continued to present so close to launch. You missing them doesn't excuse the false advertisement that pushed to the mass of gamers.
It was a a greedy money move and thats about all it was. If we are to believe the kotaku article at all it's pretty damn clear of just how false what they showed was as bioware continued to tell us it was in game. There is no way around that nor thinking that the game would have changed that much so close to launch with no real corrections which would have been easy to do but would have hurt their sales that apparently that just unacceptable.
Simplest answer I know is anthem was done in about 12-16 months.
In a 7 years development period for anthem that EA gave bioware. They dicked around for a little over 5 years and had nothing but an on the rails video to show the higher ups and only in the last 12-16 months at most did bioware get something put together to sale. Ea stuck to their guns in wanting anthem on the market in their Fiscal year of 2018 which ended in March 2019. I can't blame EA for that given they gave bioware 7 years and they blew over 5 of it.
Dead on and well written on the matter. ^