Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
I think what Aurelius means is that this background information needs to be delivered through other means, either through side story quests or implicit throughout the currently relevant events.
Then you get no foreshadowing and instead new issues pop up with no lead-in or establishing set of events. That's amateur story telling at best.

That said, that isn't what they meant. They believe that stuff isn't important and exists solely to pad out how long we play.