Nah, it isn’t potential. The act of slicing content material requires us not simply to take away the minimize content material itself, however we additionally want to wash up all present connections to that minimize content material in order that the sport doesn’t break because of lacking belongings. Because of this 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 better complete that’s the recreation.
ALTThink about that we determine to chop degree 4 from our recreation. Along with eradicating degree 4, we now should make it possible for nothing else within the recreation references degree 4. This implies:
- be sure that finishing degree 3 takes the participant to degree 5 as an alternative of degree 4
- any mission-critical gadgets that have been speculated to be in degree 4 get redistributed to different ranges
- any participant skills earned or tutorials taught in degree 4 have to be re-distributed to a different degree
- any achievements that require something unique to degree 4 are eliminated or redistributed
- any characters or codex entries launched in degree 4 are eliminated or redistributed
- … and so forth.
We’ve got to make the remainder of the sport work with out ever referencing degree 4, as a result of it have to be as if degree 4 doesn’t exist.
ALTNow think about that we’ve launched the sport. Gamers are having fun with it. We determine to promote degree 4 to the gamers post-launch as DLC. How would we go about doing that? Nothing within the recreation refers to or connects to degree 4 in any manner. The entire new content material from degree 4 has already been re-distributed. We will’t simply plug degree 4 again into the sport prefer it was earlier than it was minimize. We would want to construct a bunch of new connections to the sport for degree 4 to make sense. There have to be a brand new approach to let the sport know when the participant ought to enter degree 4. There have to be some sort of new rewards for finishing degree 4. We’d in all probability should re-tune the issue since degree 4 in all probability wouldn’t be inserted between degree 3 and 5 (particularly after the re-distribution of all the degree 4 stuff to different ranges), however be post-game content material as an alternative.
ALTClearly, there’s important growth work that have to be executed to be able to take the outdated degree 4 and turning it into one thing that gamers would need to play post-launch and be keen to pay for.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. This is the reason we usually minimize content material that isn’t mission essential and has the least general footprint on the sport.
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