A rumor? a statement from one of the devs is not a rumor.
Call it plan, intent, etc. doesn’t change the fact that no company will greenlight another expansion if the first one failed.
unless they really need money. Then expansions do get greenlit one after another. Just look at WoW, whenever an expansion pack fails miserably and overall is regarded as not good, Blizzard announces that the next one is a mere year away, instead of fixing the mess that they’ve caused.
It wouldn’t surprise me, if instead of rebuilding HoT Anet is preparing another expansion in a year or so.
Yeah, WoW did shove Mists out fairly quickly after Cata.
We had an 8 boss raid to last us over a year… Lets not tell lies xD