I abhor XII. Played it again during my series playthrough late last year; never did I simultaneously want to learn more about a setting and want the game to just end then when I was going through the endgame of XII. I prefer XIII to XII; that’s how much I hate it.

Question: VII Remake aside, what was the last universally praised FF title? X? VIII? The series has been going downhill for literally decades now, with the scope of the titles frankly getting beyond what SE is capable of.

Look, you broke the ATC union decades ago, and we’re finally seeing the results: underpaid, overworked employees with almost no one going into the industry, leading to industry wide delays due to staff shortages.

Can wait for the long-awaited bout between Sinister and Zallard for Punch Out supremacy.

No reason to use future tense here.

To be fair, it’s not like either *needed* a remaster.

Every time something malfunctions, I always recall a story from one of my co-workers, who was one of the original Imagineers.

My recession plan is the same as the last one: Take the money I stored away during the recovery and purchase more stock at below-market-value prices.

Which is impossible, given some countries still use M4 Sherman and T-34 tanks.  So you would quickly find out you have a game with no tanks at all.

Considering gas powered cars don’t get that much, that’s a tall ask.

Might have considered this if it was on Steam prior to CKIII releasing, but not now.

Games are so big budget now, the sheer cost is causing even the large AAA companies to want to consolidate in order to have the sheer amount of cash necessary to fund said ventures.

The issue becomes if the process of slowing the market to contain inflation, plus the inflation that has already occurred, leads to a decline in spending that results in an economic death spiral, or if you can slow the economy without doing widespread damage.

Uhh, no, you LOWER interest rates and increase spending to fight off recessions. Cutting off money inherently makes recessions worse.

Yeah, no one cares about easy importing of data into excel, until you have to do data analytics.  Then *everyone* suddenly cares.

This is why I advocate for a law that states that any company based in America has to pay it’s workers the equivalent of the US Minimum Wage + Benefits, regardless of where they actually work.

Honestly, Square hasn’t been good at the whole “RPG” thing for a good while now.  I really only care about Enix’s side of the house, which so far has escaped unscathed (outside of no proper Ogre Battle...)

Contradiction:

...how did things even reach that point?

Which Trump negotiated. Biden simply followed the agreed upon deadline.