That's not an excuse. Hiring five more writers and trying to foster more communication between the lore writers, the level designers, and the storyline writers shouldn't take that much more time and money, which is another reason I felt that Oblivion should have taken more time in development.
Not that I don't like Oblivion, it just takes a level-fixer mod and a books mod to become enjoyable to me. Except for the main quest. That was just absolutely terrible.
I liked both main quests,though morrowinds was slightly better. But,does nobody think oblivion's story is better than what was first thought,because of the skyrim anouncement trailer and alduins wall?
Like for instance some people didn't like the fact martin,did what he did,but when you see the anoucement trailer it makes sense. I hope people get what i mean.
Basically,oblivions main quest,wasn't as bad as one thought ,due to the events of skyrim etc.