From what we hear, sounds like it was a publisher pushing release too early thing, stacked with the lead dev not really being good at PR and going like "oh it'd be cool to have this, and this, and this..." and then everyone just ran with it and assumed he meant "it will have this". It was apparently a huge shitstorm at launch.

Then the devs actually buckled down and added all that stuff in. We came in much later, after that was already underway.

And then they just KEPT ADDING SHIT. There's so much stuff in the game now, it's ridiculous.

-- Frost