Sneak Peek 2

That's also right.

I don't think everyone expected that the first Masteria expansion would have been Crimsonwood Keep.

Well.. I, for one, didn't expect it. There would have been other expansions which should've had the priority.. like the Yetinx, the Affluent Tower or the Mesogears expansions.

Also, after they used the Yetinx as an event place, I doubt they would use it for other purposes. I mean.. how would they explain the fact that the Yetinx portal took you to.. a Cake Town?

I don't think it always was first. Take a look at TCG set 1: It was primarily split into two groups, one being futuristic items and the other being ancient artifacts. In my opinion this was a gauge of interest - what would GMS players be more interested in? By far, it turned out to be the ancient artifacts, and thus set 2 was largely dedicated to this. ALL items in set 2 were artifacts and were used in conjunction with the first set's artifacts. From the time that set 2 was released I was convinced that crimsonwood would be the next Masteria area. They were simply talking too much about it. The only reason they would be describing, in detail, a specific monster like Typhon or Elder Wraith was because they had already decided to create that area. Sure enough, it was released a few months later.

Now, compare this to what we have seen of Krakia to this point. Krakians and their interaction with the most recent area have been described in great detail. While we have yet to see specific names of Krakia monsters, their appearance is known. The boss of the area is mentioned, and Professor Krakia himself was "present" at the first Masteria invasion. It is simply mentioned too often for it to merely be referential, the way Versal is. While descriptions of versal exist, they're no where near as detailed as what we know of Krakia at this point. To me, it appears that Versal will be the last thing that happens in Masteria. It's the source of the problems, and it lays out like it's the final dungeon, the place you need to go to root out the bad guys once and for all. We probably won't see much of it until things start reaching a climax, but i'm sure we'll be hearing a lot more about it.

That being said I would agree that stating the time of release like a fact is absurd but we're all entitled to our guesses and opinions so long as you state it as such. On the other hand I also think the evidence for Krakia is undeniable and saying things like "they can retcon the text out" is pretty much out of the question because it's not something they have done before and I see no reason for why they would suddenly start doing it now. They didn't do this by accident, they dropped these hints on purpose, for a reason, and that was to increase speculation on something that they already planned on releasing.