And then they try to fix it by spending even more on the next title.

I don’t get it.

It has resulted in some fantastic, well-selling games, but it was never going to reach the universal “literally everyone is playing this” level they seem to keep thinking will happen “any second now”.

Sony?

Final Fantasy is owned by Square Enix.

I suspect Sony pays them very little for the timed exclusivity, still that does help.

But the mismanagement I’m referring to is less to do with the platform availability (though that doesn’t help) as it is with Squenixes habit of consistently over-estimating final sales, and thereby overspending on development and scope.

Squenix did it with Tomb Raider, they did it with Deux Ex, and then axed the franchises entirely because they “failed to meet sales projections”. They still sold like hell, but “underperformed” because Squenix had completely bonkers expectations, and thereby also spent way more than warranted.

The marketing budget for Shadow of the Tomb Raider was apparently more than a third of what they paid for development, and even the development cost was questionable.

The exact same pattern is happening with Final Fantasy, where they try to fix waning sales by going bigger and bigger, instead of more efficient and consistent. I hope they wise up before they axe FF, too.

You would, if you use the script so that it posts using your account.

That’s what I do, exactly so that any comments appear in my inbox, since I do often want to respond.

That said, if you don’t have any programming experience, there is: https://schedule.lemmings.world

I would use a file instead of ENVs so that the state actually survives a reboot. Otherwise, a system restart will screw your setup…

That, or you could make the script actually check what’s currently pinned.

That said, like already pointed out by @Zerlyna@lemmy.world, not everyone is a coder.

So I’d suggest looking at https://schedule.lemmings.world

Intergrade is an increbile game. I loved it.

Squenix is still missmanaging the shit out of their franchises, and I will be waiting for Rebirth to be discounted and on PC.

Waited for the PC version of Intergrade, and then a sale. It was absolutley fantastic IMO. But I will still do the same with Rebirth.

Squenix keeps trying to spend more to get more, and it never fucking works.

It’s always “our titles are performing below expectations and we will be forced to axe the project” when the whole reason things are going south is that they somehow thought there was a market to make hundreds of millions, then spend accordingly.

And when fans aren’t interested in buying one game three times for full price:

Rebirth didn’t need to be bigger and better than Intergrade. It just needed to be the same quality level (which was excellent, now with Rebirth its overshooting the sweet spot by a mile) and cost less than full-price.

What? Squenix overspending still didn’t result in proportianlly higher sales?

No way! But surely, next time it’ll work!

If youre unfamiliar, squenix keeps upping the budget when they get “hits” expecting the return to scale. Then when it doesn’t, they use it as en excuse to abandon the franchise.

They did it with Tomb Raider. They did it with the new Deus Ex games. I really really don’t want them to do it Final Fantasy, as I really enjoy the modern games.

No work today. Gonna make a cast iron pizza. Then play Satisfactory until I get sleepy.

Browse the community, perhaps. It’s a neat game.

I’m running a dedicated server for it, check out the relevant post if anyone is interested in joining.

She’s number one

Batteries catch fire. Very large ones, or many cells together can mean a very hot, very dangerous fire, with the occasional violence of a cell bursting.

Being in close contact with something like a phone when that happens would cause burns, but they don’t “explode” with very much force. (Relatively speaking. You wouldn’t get lethal fragmentation for example, I don’t think)

The note 7 batteries didn’t really go boom in the way an actual explosive does, though the reaction is a sudden and fast release of thermal energy, its not that much energy in terms of explosive devices.

So no. You can’t “hack” a phone and turn it into a bomb using just the hardware that is already inside. You could start a fire, and that could be deadly, but as an explosive device the battery in most phones is not that potent.

Did someone give her the statue of liberty?

Midriff, fang, AND braid?

Absolutely.

First basic, steel, and caterium factories are built.

Working on a quartz facility, next is going to be the first steps in processing oil.

Also still looking for more players.

I do have a construction planner tab open in my steam overlay.

The fact that steam now remembers the tabs you had on a game-by-game basis makes it extra useful. You can close the game, and it wont appear in other games, but start up Satisfactory, and all your plans are right there.

Also works with catwalks, walls and railings.

R to toggle build mode. In Zoop mode you can drag the mouse to build dozens of foundations, walls, fences, whatever, all in one go.

Doesn’t it do both? Quick switch toggles through all the items in a category, so it should go tier one single wall, tier one double wall, then tier two single wall, and tier two double wall.

You can also hold E to get a selection wheel with all options.

In some cases, it can actually be smart to underclock. It’s exponential in that direction too, meaning machines become more power-efficient the more you underclock them.

Yeah, and copying a machine using middle mouse doesn’t copy its configuration. That only works with blueprints.

It would be so neat to just point at a bunch of smelters and going, YOU’RE ALL SMELTING IRON.