User blog comment:X-Machinist-X/Dishonored random stuff/@comment-26947588-20151017034304/@comment-1500935-20151017203422

@MD

Yes I know, they reused discarded materials and a few maps from the main game, but they never planned the DLC until after the game's release (at least in a few interviews). Compare this to any of the last AAA game coming this year or the next, with now up to 50$ season passes already planned and ready for pre-order before even the game's release.

Also I don't think Eminent Domain was just cut from the game to be DLC fodder when it was likely the game's first complete mission to be made. Compare this to games like Tomb Raider and the last Thief which had respectively an optional tomb and side mission cut from them to be downloaded as pre-order gift (which means available at the game's release) and later DLC, and whose accesses can still be seen in-game as a way of saying "here is what you can't have without buying this." Rage did it too although said DLC were only time exclusive, from what I understand.