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I was reading an interview from a game magazine and I'm not sure if I
understand what the director of a game is saying when he was asked a question.
He was asked if he could tell some details about some weapons, how will will
the gameplay be like, but he does not answer directly because he did not want
to reveal more information, saying that us players should wait a little
longer. The director says:  

> あの武器のプレイは、皆さんが想像している通りのものになると思います.

I don't know if I am translating properly. Is it: "I think I will let the
gameplay of those weapons be up to everyone's imagination" OR "I think the
gameplay is what everyone imagines."  
Also, not sure if it would be the same, but I wanted at first to use
"expectation" as in, "the gameplay is what everyone expects", but the word is
not 期待している.

Pretty sure I am misunderstanding, so I hope someone can help me out. Also, is
ものになる the same as ことになる？  
Thank you in advance!
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translation word-choice
Am I understanding this alright? あの武器のプレイは、皆さんが想像している通りのものになると思います
I think the both provided translations in English are quite similar, so it is
pretty difficult to decide which one is better. The key point in the sentence
is _ものになる_ which means that _it will become_. According to my knowledge an
appropriate translation could be

> Gameplay of the weapon will become the same as everyone imagines, I think.

想像 sounds more poetical than 期待, so I think that the director opted for 想像
because of this reason.  
もの and こと(事) mean the same thing, except こと is more polite and usually used in
keigo sentences. Another difference is もの is used for tangible objects while
こと is used for intangible ones.

I hope I was able to clarify something.
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From what you've written, I think this is the clause you're having trouble
with:

> 皆が想像している通りのものになる  
>  will be what everyone imagines it to be.

I don't really understand why you think has to be 期待 here, but 想像する can be
used similarly to mean "imagine" or "expected". So in that case:

> 想像している通り

just means "as imagined". And then if you append のもの to the end of this
phrase, you get:

> 想像している通りのもの  
>  what (everyone) imagines it to be.

and then adding になる to the end of that clause you get:

> 想像している通りのものになる  
>  will be what (everyone) imagines it to be.

So we've come full circle. When you put this into the context of the entire
sentence, it just becomes:

> あの武器のプレイは、 **皆さんが想像している通りのものになる** と思います.  
>  I think the way the weapon is played **will be what everyone imagines it to
> be**.

So I think your second translation was pretty close to what what the sentence
tries to express. To address the difference between もの and こと, the basic
difference between the two is that もの is used for more concrete nouns while こと
is more abstract.

> 分かるということはどういうことでしょうか。〇  
>  分かるというものはどういうものでしょうか。☓  
>  What does understanding really mean?

You wouldn't be able to use もの here because "understanding" is not a tangible
thing. It is an abstract idea. The same can be applied when you are choosing
between ものになる and ことになる.
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