Square Enix Puts 3D-Printed Final Fantasy Figures Out of Business

Square Enix consistently protects its trademarks and copyrights. And still people consistently use them without permission. So it's perhaps not a surprise that an artist selling a Final Fantasy action figure series was shut down when Square's lawyers told his 3D printer to cease and, yes, desist.

[Snookies12]

Oh BS! I really wanted some of those too... Man I hate Square Enix at times.....

[-Foxtrot]

at times....

More like the majority of the time

[Foxgod]

Dude, thats major copyright infringement..
I am not fond of SE either, but SE is 100% right here, you cant go and earn money on selling other people's IP's.

[jerethdagryphon]

there a loads of small styalized things that escape ip problems cause there differetn if he listed them as 3d prints of animie style chars without names hed probobly get away

[Inception]

I knew it's sucks because i want some of the figures too. But you can't blame SE this time. Those people break the law by use copyright material and sell it without permission from SE. It more or less the same with pirates.

[admiralvic]

Pirates? No.
Bootleggers? Yes.

The main difference is that no one is really making a profit off the pirates, where as bootleggers are stealing money that Square could have made off selling similar figures.

Think of it like this... bootlegging would be selling an illegally made copy of a DVD and making like $3 dollars on it. Not only are the companies losing the purchase, but someone else is directly profiting off their work for minimal / no effort.

[NeXXXuS]

Now Squeenix is going to make lots of money making these figures now.

[hay]

One can use this service to print them without the need of Square's approval. Just extract models from the game and convert if necessary.

[3-4-5]

Why? What if you had made a game and then realized somebody was making figures of YOUR characters that YOU created, and making money off of it, and it wasn't even their idea, nor their IP to do anything with in the first place.

You'd be kind of mad too.

[DynDasE]

I do not know much about this litigiousness, but I think the store is exploiting SQEX's FFVII license; therefore, I believe it is a right thing to ban the store. : P

[KonsoruMasuta]

If SE was smart they would would have just asked for a fraction of every sale. That would have been the smarter move.

[Baka-akaB]

That would be dumb . They can just make those themselves . Hell maybe they already had plans to . And they already sell various FF7 figures

[KonsoruMasuta]

It would still have been more money in their pockets and less work. Even if they could make them.

[Baka-akaB]

Having a middleman is not a good idea at all , when they can do it themselves on a bigger scale and without charges .

Again they already produce toys and figures themselves

Only thing they could do is kick themselves for not thinking of it first .

[MWH]

fuck you article writer, you and your squirt-penis. now we can no longer obtain these beautiful things.

[JD_Shadow]

What in the hell did you just say?

[MWH]

I fought with my fiancé so i'm in negative-mode, want a piece of that pie?

[e-p-ayeaH]

Those low poly character figures actually looked quite cool and nostalgic...

[ZeroX9876]

when 3D printers comes more and more popular, those 3d plastic figurine will become cheaper. Until then, I'm not buying any at SE price, like that sephiroth figurine they're selling for 120$. 30$ is a good price for something that will be sitting on your desk forever. not 120$.

[Baka-akaB]

Those arent even comparable . The 120$ ones are much bigger and detilled . Those are purposely low poly with low details , as shown within the original game .

I get your point and dont disagree with it , but those are just too radically different figurines

[rataranian]

Ebay.

[RE_L_MAYER]

Sqare enix your game accessories are a bunch of lies anyway what you post on website and what you really get is a complete ripoff

[Kydawg]

It shouldn't be too hard to make those yourself if you have access to a 3d printer

[Skate-AK]

They should have entered into a partnership with him. These would sell so quick.