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[Arkevorkhat]

Regardless of what you believe the plan should have been, clearly SE had their own. Maybe it was their original plan to kill him off entirely. Maybe it wasn't, and what we see is what they had planned all along. Considering they have to plan months and months ahead I'd wager it was set in stone from the beginning. With the way they handled past character "deaths", I wasn't surprised at all with how things went down, but it still hit me right in the feels which doesn't happen often. lol Also relevant is the fact that he DID die. However, he wanted us to take his soul across the rift and put it back in his body on the Source who wasn't dead but still sleeping after locking himself away in the Crystal Tower. Now that the future he was part of didn't come to pass, he had no reason to stay inside...so here we are. If anything I'm impressed with how much they thought it through compared to past...situations.

Yoshida has said on numerous occasions that Story Development and game programming happen on a 2-patch cycle, when they finish one patch, they begin work on the one two patches later.

What that means is that the decision to resurrect G'raha was made... Drumroll Please... AFTER THE RELEASE OF 5.1.

This was a calculated monetary decision, nothing more, and it's something that SE should catch flak for.

[Vahlnir]

Yoshida has said on numerous occasions that Story Development and game programming happen on a 2-patch cycle, when they finish one patch, they begin work on the one two patches later.

What that means is that the decision to resurrect G'raha was made... Drumroll Please... AFTER THE RELEASE OF 5.1.

This was a calculated monetary decision, nothing more, and it's something that SE should catch flak for.

Or maybe it wasn't their plan at all to kill him off entirely. I'd like to see the sources that confirm that they decided to keep him alive for financial gain. I'm not saying that wasn't a motivator, but no one but SE and the devs knows their full reasoning. There was no hole in the plot regardless. His death and his revival made complete sense.