Final Fantasy XIV and a Culture of Enabling

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I'd say that SE has pretty much chosen their hill. They cut an entire Ultimate too, and the game is growing regardless.

They still want to do multiple an expansion, the schedule for 3 was just a bad idea from the start with the work load. Making 3 ultimates, plus the redevelopment of 3 ultimates when the team for battle content is literally just 4 guys and their interns is p bad. SO there was no hill, more so a "We literally don;t have the time and people for this" kinda deal. And from what was said the second ultimate was almost done, but they would rather wait and polish it over dropping half baked content.

Edit: if anyone reads the interviews for how Eden normal and savage was made, the battle content team was well manned for storm blood, and gutted for unknown reasons(FF16) for shadowbringers So its easy to assume they might get most of the original team back for endwalker.

Keep in mind Covid and FF16 has drastically changed how they planned to handle this expansion. So losing 2 ultimates this expansion was a sad reality, on top of the bad scheduling from the beginning on their end.

Edit 2: They also cut a lot of casual content this expansion as well, Hildabrand, Deepdungeons, Multiple Dungeons per patch, Being able to contribute to the Firmament with battle jobs and not just gather jobs and crafting jobs. So both sides have taken loses this expansion as a whole. I would wager casuals took more then the hardcore players, We only lost one piece of content with the other 3 ultimates still being highly replayable.