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I take this to mean that the assets exist and could be compiled back into the game, but doing so would be a pretty intensive undertaking that isn't worth it for what appears to be a nuisance lawsuit.

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I'd actually consider playing again if all of the content existed in the game in a way that could be easily accessed. For a long time I was waiting for more expansions to come out so that I could buy the latest and play all of the old content only to discover that they have been slowly removing old things from the game.

I assume the point being that they want the fear of missing out to be the motivating factor to keep people actively hooked on current content.

All the seasonal content gets automatically flushed too, which means even if an expansion is retained you lose like half of the activities and story anyway. I jumped back in to play The Final Shape after being absent since Shadowfall and was lost since 60% of the story was missing seasonal content ripped from the interim expansions.

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