Yoshida's latest interview, Comic Exhibition Taiwan 2025

[Supersnow845]

Yeah, if you went with that logic sure, stretching the current EW over two expansions wouldn't work. EW was a bloated fastpaced mess, how many nations and areas did we visit again? THavnair deserved more, Garlemald definitely deserved more.
We are left with speculation but it would've been their job to make more areas for Garlemald. I for one would've probably focused on Thavnair and Garlemald in one expansion, deleting the whole of Labyrinthos and their spaceship.(because it makes no sense)
And made us care for both nations more (at least the good parts of Garlemald) while the patches would hype up the Final Days sorting out the world going crazy and hyping up the mystery until the whole world unravels in 7.0 and we need to fix it.. insert Elpis and Sharlayan.

I could see that working but again I’m not sure, I mean garlemald as a sympathetic nation never really resonated with me (entirely personal opinion) so in my mind I’d struggle to be engaged with a garlemald + thavnir + maybe corvos expansion as an example which was kinda the original point I was making I might just have sounded authoritative than I meant to sound

I would have rather had whatever they had planned for Garlemald Expansion and then Endwalker, than what we got for Dawntrail.

Sorry, you can't convince me that finishing the storyline in an organic , logical fashion is a worse idea than rushing it to get to... Dawntrail.

Hell, somewhere out there is an alternate universe where we got Westwolves instead of Dawntrail, I'd rather have taken a gamble on that.

Dawntrail’s quality doesn’t factor into the conversation because this is about short EW vs long EW. Your belief that they rushed EW specifically to reach DT has no foundation, the interview specifically said they sped up EW, not they did it because they wanted to tell DT

I’m simply saying from my perspective nothing in EW’s plot threads engaged me enough to keep it going for two expansions, that point is entirely seperate to whether I think a hypothetical 2 expansion EW is better than DT (even ignoring it might still be followed by DT anyway)