@Kronoxus:
WARNING THIS IS A RANT/SPECULATION POST ABOUT BB PROBLEMS AND WHY PW4 SHOULD HAPPEN
A part of me knows this is pointless but still, i feel like if the Burning Blood series dies out. (hard to say whether it will or not) That the PW series may still have a chance. I realized that when Naruto Storm 4 released, so did Burning Blood (only 2 months later) perhaps they were trying to grab that audience since there wont be anymore Naruto Storm games (at least not for awhile) and give them some new content to bite into. But the problem with that was the game didn't have enough content for a newcomers into the series with the story mode being 1 arc and that arc being critical in the series, however it leaves many people who don't know the series very well in the dark as to what happens before hand. As for us veterans, it wasn't enough content. The story mode being one arc was utterly ridiculous. There were no pre-time skip straw hats (except luffy) and certain key charcters were not playable. Now if BB2 happens im sure they will patch up those rough spots (hopefully).
I am trying to figure out what does Naruto Storm 4 have to do with anything OP BB. The game was developed for the One Piece fans who wanted a new fighting game based on the anime and manga, not for Naruto fans.
The story mode is not important, especially for a fighting game. The developers won't be able to do 800+ chapters into one game unless they are cheap about it, but since we are in modern day gaming, nobody wants to see scale images or stop motions.
The game has enough key characters based off on Japan's popular character sheet. For example, Bartolomeo, Perona, Koala, and Eneru.
If the developers sacrifice some of these characters for the Pre-Time StrawHats, the character roster wouldn't be much variety, you will constantly fight same characters over and over again. Even though that's already happening, but still a horrible decision in my opinion. It would just ruin the whole 3 vs 3 battle system.
It was stated in a couple of Koji Nakajima's interviews and confirmed 2 years ago.
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/07/09/one-piece-unlimited-world-red-original-story/
http://www.godisageek.com/2016/03/one-piece-burning-blood-interview/
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/03/25/one-piece-burning-blood-director-luffys-gear-four-form-setting-game-marineford-arc/
And they already asked for our feedback back in July.
http://www.onepiece-game.com/us/we-need-you-and-your-feedbacks/
As for One Piece Pirate Warriors series, that's up to Bandai Namco if they want to publish the fourth game. Based on the last link interview we might be getting new One Piece open world games for the PS4 and Xbox One in the future. I don't think Ganbarion will develop One Piece games for Xbox One, so it has to be new developers. Maybe Koji Nakajima got connections with CyberConnect2, Level5, or Platinum Games. Who knows?