I don't know where this will lead with regards to the court, as some people say this was already dismissed in previous acquisition trials.
However, I know this is really bad for them at least in the court of public opinion. It seems like the last thing they needed was someone writing an email boasting about microsofts unending wealth and how it gives them a significant advantage.
This game is a strange one as, from my perspective, FF hasn't been a proper turn based RPG for nearly two decades. Additionally, the last few entries have already played with being action based. Then you have some strange experimentation with FFXII being RTwP and you start to notice that the series hasn't been at all consistent since then.
I do think SE needs to reign in a bit what FF is from a gameplay perspective. They've long migrated from what made the series great for little reason when you consider FFX is still one of the best selling games in the franchise and is strictly turn based (not even active time battle.)
I haven't played FFXVI yet, as I don't own a playstation and would prefer to play it on PC, but some part of me looked at this new entry as a decent pivot point for the series tonally -- it's just a shame that it's also so controversial regarding the gameplay choices it seems.
I'm actually happy about this, as I have a huge backlog of games from this year alone. It's been a crazy year so far.
It is important for people to have a place to discuss or hear others discuss important topics -- so I really think we're all a bit addicted to discussion.
It's very interesting how Mark Milley seemed to have a few plans active in case a deranged Trump somehow got the military entangled in conflicts both internally (jan 6) and externally (potential unhinged war against Iran, per his request for invasion plans)
But that's actually beside the point here -- what's funny is how he was so insulted by Milley's book claiming he was unhinged and wanted to attack Iran that he basically went completely out of control and started waving said top secret documents to a staffer and the accompanying ghost writer. It's literally like poring oil on an open flame!