ULTIMATE Marvel vs Capcom 3...!? FUUUUUUUU-

[Rosencrantz]

As for Frank West, he was actually in the process quite deep, and in one of our high quality CG trailers he was actually part of it, but we’ve taken him out, due to the fact that we’ve foreseen some extra work involved, just from the nature of his moves. We felt we could direct our resources to better use, so we’ve taken Frank out.

wait

they removed Frank West, despite having put work into him, because he would have been too much work?

What?

I mean, sure, I'll agree that extra work is not fun and all, but still: why not put in the extra work so then more people would actually buy the game?