Very observant! Have a cookie. :) This is pretty old news, and I see no point in bringing it up again for the benefit of the "Christmas noobs". One of the reasons these areas are designed in advance and put in place early so that we don't have to download a multi-gig patch file every time DLC comes out. I don't know about you, but I'm not running on 50mbps fiber-optic internet. I run on Broadband 3mbps, and half the time it's glitchy or runs slower than it should. That's the only internet available to us currently, so I greatly appreciate not having to download a rather large file with each new DLC. As for whether this stuff was supposed to be in the game at launch or not, let it go man. There were countless, COUNTLESS threads about this crap already, and no one has said anything to deny or confirm anything. And people are still playing. You know why? The game ITSELF is fun. The controls are tight, the gunplay is top-notch, supers don't feel out of place, and playing with friends to overcome a common objective is a blast. So if you aren't happy with the game itself and feel the need to bring stuff like this up again in order to validate your displeasure with the game, perhaps it's time for you to find a new game to play. Just saying.