Yoshida's latest interview, Comic Exhibition Taiwan 2025

[Supersnow845]

You can't say with any authority what they did and did not have planned, or what did and did not end up on the cutting room floor. You're purely speculating, whereas Yoshida is literally telling you they had plans, but they cut and rushed things.

I didn’t say with any authority what they did cut. I’m saying based on what we have from EW stretching EW’s current plotlines across 2 expansions wouldn’t work. Sure they probably cut a lot of potential plotlines but we don’t know the quality of those cut plotlines, they could have been fantastic or they could have been awful. We see EW as rushed now, who’s to say that if they gave it two expansions we wouldn’t see it as a slow bloated mess after the fast and tight ShB?

The only thing I speculated on was how popular a garlemald focused expansion would have been if it took a similar tone to the time we did spend in garlemald

I for one didn’t see enough I liked in EW to think they could pull that across 2 expansions but that’s entirely my opinion