Quote Originally Posted by NekoMataMata View Post
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.
Counter counterpoint.

EW was being worked on after ShB was released, and the decision to make it 1 expansion instead of 2 fell on Yoshi-P who made the call because he felt it was time to wrap it up. If you recall, they even delayed the release to do their quality check because Yoshi-P himself micromanaged it to the point where they needed more time for the quality check. That doesn't sound like FFXVI development interfering with the development of FFXIV to me. The Pandaemonium raids have been well received, the Ultimates have been well received, the EXs have been well received, the new Alliance Raids have been well received...the only things you can point to having an issue (off the top of my head) is 6.0's story feeling rushed, Criterion's lack of real rewards, the 2nd Manderville relic quest being a repeat of the 1st step, and the 6.1+ story basically being a filler arc.