I'm not sure that using the entire QA staff of the world's largest agglomeration of Dev studios on a single game only qualifies as "not cutting corners". That's surely going above and beyond.
They are optional you know?
You have done that yourself
It's a direct sequel to a bioware game.
The cost is just money in this case. It doesn't use rare or unethically sourced materials (at least if you're not a vegan), it advances the biological sciences as a whole and it's something to do for bio grads that might generate a lot of value for society in the future.
Qualification in alternative medicine?
It's them or us
Who did the economy recover for?
This aid is not charitable. America needs to maintain its hegemony to continue benefiting from it and Taiwan is a critical strategic asset.
Disaster relief. If your players are good-inclined, they have a wide variety of abilities that would be helpful in saving a community from fires, plagues, earthquakes and more.
Otherwise, something like an encounter with the wild hunt or another plane's equivalent. They don't start hostile and have confusing rules the party need to Intuit to avoid negative consequences or violence
It's neither of those things. Words have meanings, and legal terms have very specific meanings.