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Nah, it isn’t potential. The act of slicing content material requires us not simply to take away the lower content material itself, however we additionally want to scrub up all current connections to that lower content material in order that the sport doesn’t break as a result of lacking belongings. Which means that re-adding the content material later would require us to create a bunch of new connections to the sport to make the content material join with the higher entire that’s the recreation.

Think about that we determine to chop stage 4 from our recreation. Along with eradicating stage 4, we now should ensure that nothing else within the recreation references stage 4. This implies:

• make sure that finishing stage 3 takes the participant to stage 5 as an alternative of stage 4
• any mission-critical gadgets that have been imagined to be in stage 4 get redistributed to different ranges
• any participant talents earned or tutorials taught in stage 4 have to be re-distributed to a different stage
• any achievements that require something unique to stage 4 are eliminated or redistributed
• any characters or codex entries launched in stage 4 are eliminated or redistributed
• … and so forth.

We have now to make the remainder of the sport work with out ever referencing stage 4, as a result of it have to be as if stage 4 doesn’t exist.

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Now think about that we’ve launched the sport. Gamers are having fun with it. We determine to promote stage 4 to the gamers post-launch as DLC. How would we go about doing that? Nothing within the recreation refers to or connects to stage 4 in any method. All the new content material from stage 4 has already been re-distributed. We are able to’t simply plug stage 4 again into the sport prefer it was earlier than it was lower. We would want to construct a bunch of new connections to the sport for stage 4 to make sense. There have to be a brand new technique to let the sport know when the participant ought to enter stage 4. There have to be some form of new rewards for finishing stage 4. We’d in all probability should re-tune the problem since stage 4 in all probability wouldn’t be inserted between stage 3 and 5 (particularly after the re-distribution of all the stage 4 stuff to different ranges), however be post-game content material as an alternative.

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Clearly, there’s important improvement work that have to be performed with the intention to take the outdated stage 4 and turning it into one thing that gamers would wish to play post-launch and be keen to pay for. Slicing content material and including it again in later doesn’t work due to all the work that went into eradicating that content material to start with. For this reason we sometimes lower content material that isn’t mission crucial and has the least total footprint on the sport.

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