sad but true. That shit is weird. Some people have no fucking lives.
? Well.. that isn't actually true.
Mirage was never "DLC" ...as in, on a 1 slide it was an idea when it was first being talked about, it was suppose to be DLC, they later decided what they are talking about was more closer to a full game and started to design that.
This means all that you see and play in Mirage is 100% a full game, that was never actually DLC, unless you think like a slide show or a few things written on paper = a game.
Creative Director Stéphane Boudon and Lead Producer Fabian Salomon talk about the origins and challenges of Basim’s adventure, and what didn’t make the cut.
news.ubisoft.com
"Stéphane Boudon: It was a very early idea, and it was really just one slide in a PowerPoint presentation."
btw I think people took that entire fucking story and ran with it with so little context is not even funny. Put it like this, Halo is more of an RTS using this logic as that literally was a actual playable working game before it was a FPS and folks would still clearly understand the Halo they got in 2001 is clearly a FPS title.