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Originally Posted by Danth
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Having extra content planned seems to have been Mcquaid&Co's modus operandi. They did the same thing with Vanguard, planned out quite a bit more landmasses than they actually launched with. Just the latter game failed commercially so none of the extra stuff was ever built for it.
Working on some stuff prior to launch doesn't preclude the possibility that said work was chucked in the trashcan when work on the expansion started in earnest. We could see some of that with Warcraft (a different studio, obviously, but same industry) since some of the un-used assets for original hellfire penninsula and zangarmarsh did actually make it into the release installation, albeit never used in-game. I would have liked to see "original Kunark." One of my complaints with the Kunark we got was it deviated too much from the style of the pre-expansion game.
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I'm just going by what they've actually said in these interviews. I always thought they had a larger plan for rolling out new content, too, but that's not really the impression they give when discussing it.
Haven't heard any of them say they didn't consider it as a possibility, which is why McPherson was asked to get something together early on, but they don't sound like they were really expecting to need it, either. Most sound like it was a bit of a surprise that they did and it was, evidently, a complete surprise to Sony.