Turbine Expansions And Turnovers

According to Gamespot Asheron's Call 2 players don't have long to wait before the "Legions" expansion will find its way to store shelves. The content expansion for the graphics intensive game went gold this week. Players of the original Asheron's Call will have to wait until this summer to enjoy their new content, as the expansion has been pushed back for further testing and refinement. Additionally, MMOG industry veteran Jessica Mulligan used the expansion announcements as an opportunity to mention her departure from Turbine. She hasn't publicly stated a reason for her departure, saying only that the decision is unrelated to the expansion titles. Gamasutra has an interview with Ms. Mulligan about the state of the industry up from last week. From the Gamespot article: "Legions will include a new continent, called Knorr, which will increase the size of the Asheron's Call 2 world by 30 percent. Also included in this expansion pack are new playable races (one of which is the much maligned Drudge), three new prestige classes, more than 100 new quests, and 10 new monster types."

Re:Pardon?

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

AC2 expansion went gold

AC1 expansion has been pushed back.

Two different expansions, two different outcomes.

Re:AC2 - Too little, too late

[Soul-Burn666]

Optional, and not limiting, expansions every 6-9 months. It is possible to play the game and stay competitive without buying the expansions.
And I would assume instanced (i.e private) maps reduce the server and network load by a lot.

btw, some of the main devs for the game are ex-blizzard, people who worked on Diablo, Warcraft (not 3) and Starcraft.