Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
Time differences, ayy!



To be fair, Shadowbringers and Endwalker both had the same lead writer (Natsuko Ishikawa), though the latter clearly had some edits from Yoshi-P and/or Banri Oda.

The kerfluffle with 2.X's political storyline was a result of them having no plan because even going past 2.0 wasn't greenlit. A Realm Reborn's success let them go on to Heavensward, but they needed to kill time and keep player interest in the meantime, so we just beat up Monster of the Week primals and dealt with Teledji Adeledji trying to outplay Nanamo and Lolorito until 2.5 started hinting at where Heavensward would go. Thanks to the game's success there is generally a plan these days, but back then... nope.

I'm... cautiously optimistic with how Dawntrail is gonna turn out. If I remember right Daichi Hiroi is the main writer this time, and he did 6.X... which I found extremely disappointing in spite of the good characters. Too much deus ex machina, cliché plotline. Maybe more space will help.
I'm not sure they did 6.X. I do know he and the other main writer we are getting did Pandeamonium and Sorrows of Werlyt.