Quote Originally Posted by DarkDaifuku View Post
The dragon song one? It wasn't cut, it got delayed into EW.
They aimed for 2 every expansion, but the pandemic hits, they lost more than just a few days to set up the work-in-home environment.
And even with their in-home stations set up, they would be no where as powerful as the ones they got in their office, further hindering their work pace.
This is just unexpectant cascaded into a misfortunate result.

Also the didn't ultimate team also picked up BLU after the first two ultimate(correct me on this one if I am wrong), so they got more things to work with beside just two ultimate.
It counts as "delay" if in the end the resulting amount of content doesn't change.
There are 3 expacs with ultimate, they said that "3 is too much so we will aim for 2". In the end there should be 6 ultimates across stormblood - endwalker in best case.
One was "delayed" until endwalker. For that to really count as "delay", they will have to bring 3 Ultimates in total during endwalker, assuming there are no future expansion. Will they? If they do, then yeah, it's delayed. If not - it's cut.
Sure they can pick up the pace in later expansions, but its too early for that.
Considering that they aren't sure if endwalker will even *have* second ultimate, i lean towards shb having ultimate cut.

And yeah, they went blue mage after second ultimate, but that ties into "3 Ultimates is too much".

I'm not blaming them, covid and all, but as of now i feel like it's kinda incorrect to call that "delay" imo.