Have you ever considered public speaking?

If you have, don’t.

I see what you mean. There’s definitely been a lot of marketing overreach with the franchise. But there’s something about Final Fantasy that makes it a money-printing machine. Maybe it’s the long legacy, nostalgia, or the fact that they’ve been with it since the beginning, but FF marketing campaigns have (almost) always been wildly successful in a way that Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, or even Dragon Quest (in the US) can’t live up to. Just look at Kingdom Hearts, Super Smash Bros, and even that Louis Vuitton promo with Lightning.

Not that I’m trying to sell you on this set. I get that a lot of people don’t like Universes Beyond.

FIN is the best-selling MtG set of all time and there hasn’t even been a prerelease event yet. Blowing up the budget is plenty justified in this case.

I can say, at least in government, that open source is almost entirely used as a cost-saving measure, but it’s implemented so poorly (by the time a piece of software makes it through the proper channels for verification, it’s already several major releases behind. Which explains why CentOS is still so prevalent) that the general opinion becomes “open-source is just a cheap substitute for a superior commercial product.”