Quote Originally Posted by Slatersev View Post
I am well aware they don't have everything planned out in advance, they say as much all the time. The same interview where they talk about how they wrote the Ascians over the years is the one people keep saying mentioned a Garlemald expansion being cut, when it never said that.

Having a good idea about what they would do if they decided to do two is not the same as cutting an expansion.
But they’ve stated in another interview that most of the devs thought they would be doing said 1-2 other expansions. We get Ishikawa’s take on this where she says it was overwhelming and then Yoshi said he knew it would be but he knew they could handle it. There’s numerous signs one was cut. From the random Varis fight in Bozja, to the entire bozja storyline basically resolving completely offscreen because they can’t really finish it if Garlemald isn’t in the story anymore… And then there’s the matter of that slide for ShB talking about Garlemald and yeah there’s just too much that points to it being a thing.