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.
Check the FF16 twitter where they said in 2021 that covid basically delayed them 6 months due to them waiting on outside asset delivery from contractors...or those deliveries were canceled due to countries handling work and covid differently. If that was the case 16 would of been out by now, they had delays with 14 and covid hence 5.3 was pushed back. I think you are going in with the definitely happened mindset whereas I am not disagreeing something may have happened but there is way more facts that contradict that viewpoint.