At the official E3 conference, 2009, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Risings creative director, Sion Lenton, told many lies and mislead the community. For instance, he claimed that the game was an open-world sandbox game, when in reality, the sandbox was restricted; As in battlefield, traveling to far would automaticly fail the mission - and all missions also had to be completed in a certain amount of time - while - according to Sion Lenton, the whole environment is there for the player