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That would still force them to make hundreds of unique encounters to replace the copypastas and represents a lot of manhours even if they do have some existing corpus of work for every single one of them.
ER barely has the content to justify a map the size of DaS1.
Openworld is a meme that they got suckered into because either:
>Felt like they could have succeeded at making an openworld game with DaS2 on a second run if they didn't get fucked over, basically a Fromsoft Dolchstoßlegende
>Got into contractual hot water with Namco over DaS2 and got suckered into delivering an actual openworld game even though they know that it doesn't really work