Great article. I remember going out and buying a PS2 the day FF 10 part 2 came out. (I had played all of them up to this point, just didn't have my own PS2)
That was the biggest piece of shit. They took some of the original places in 10, and added shitty boring minigames to do. That was the entire game. Oh, i guess the girls could all change into different swimsuits or something, but the plot was they were going to be rock star girls or something.
Final Fantasy took a nose dive right after 10 imo.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Their monopoly is in jeopardy and they aren't happy about it.
Hawaii tried geothermal, but for some odd reason it made a loud whistle sound when letting off exhaust. People didn't like that, so the idea stopped cold.
I'd have just had some shitty engineer spend ten seconds proposing an easy fix for that, but then again if the power company gave me millions NOT to do that, why would i?