Quote Originally Posted by Iyrnthota View Post
I think the point is that a lot of people look at FF16 and say "this is the cause of the current content issues in FF14", but with how close to release it is, and how long it's been developed for, it is far more likely that if it did have an impact, then it would have been around Stormblood/Shadowbringers era. Not current Endwalker.
Counterpoint. EW itself was in development years prior to release. A lot of people felt that EW was underwhelming compared to ShB, and EW was being developed during the peak development time of FF16, right?

Even the patches themselves could have been planned out to be this way far ahead of their release dates due to them trying to leave wiggle room for any issues with FF16.