Original sentence: In addition to the tremendous world the expansion added, it also introduced significant changes, improvements, and additions, to virtually every aspect of the game, from music, to character development, to interface, enough that some players considered it a wholly different game than the earlier versions of AO.Perhaps the most well received of Anarchy Online's expansions, the Shadowlands presented a tremendous new world, collectively called the Shadowlands, which is the last remnant of the world Rubi-Ka was before it was wrenched apart by a dimension-breaking cataclysm in ages past.Released in September of 2003, the Shadowlands expansion was very well received critically, though there were concerns that it had too strong a fantasy bent to mesh completely with the AO universe
Edited sentence: Anarchy Online was originally intended to separate itself from its competitors by minimizing tedious elements such as camping and instead basing the gameplay on "content on demand".Eventually, the most tedious elements were toned down or completely removed.In Shadowlands however, such elements were introduced at a massive scale, and often taken to extremes.Many argue that Funcom tried to mimic the success of such games as Everquest.Released in September of 2003, the Shadowlands expansion also changed the gameplay drastically.Subsequently, they managed to alienate a large portion of their old playerbase.The most massive of Anarchy Online's expansions, the Shadowlands presented a tremendous new world, collectively called the Shadowlands, which is the last remnant of the world Rubi-Ka was before it was wrenched apart by a dimension-breaking cataclysm in ages past