As someone who likes to write. I'm still so confused about how throughout so much time, this game has had so many problems with writers and unfinished stories. Much of this game is literally just a literature novel with in game flags for what happens outside combat. Legitimately, whatever the vetting process is seems to cause writers to just leave.
Like it can't even be that hard to write or vet, it's smut of all things. Literal pages are dedicated to descriptions. PAGES. And when TITS does get writers who seem to love writing actual plot, they leave shortly afterwards. Like, the actual amount of non descriptive storyline writing is nowhere near being enough to complete a book. I am baffled how this is with the amount of time that has passed.
Looking into the comments of that announcement, even some are the devs are saying William had stories that had arcs that reached too far. The example used was his plan for the retaking of the station, which was announced when he jumped onto writing for the area. (A literal short story of writing)
Which is an odd bash considering the dude was sidelined numerous times for content that was not what he announced. (Then he was silenced)
Pride or overbearing correctness is causing the writers to dwindle. That's my guess. There's no way in hell a writer would be burnt out by writing what would be considered a small amount of chapters to a short story, hell writing books takes less time unless every page is quadrupled checked, rewritten 12 times, and still told to fuck off with the order to work on something you weren't tasked for...
Fen loves to say it's the writers, but I feel it's the hilarious problems of the last decade still existing. There are hints that there is no sort of outlining that is consistent, writers waiting for fen to finish the storylines or code, writers being moved to work on other stories???. Just all around a mess for a writer. Not to mention the qualifications for being "hired".
