FFxiv ingame character 3D printed statues

My suggestion is Square enix offer a prepaid ingame character 3D printed Statue of players characters
where players can choose an in game pose and outfit on the character of choice to be 3D printed by sqaure enix for a price
i think alot of people would love a 3d printed version of there ingame character
based on the millions of players ff14 has worldwide this would also seem a profitabale revenue for square enix as well

If any of u like this idea plz give this a like maybe whit enough likes sombody of ff14 or square enix will take notice of this and it could become a possibilty in the future

thanks for reading :d

i would pay for this

There are websites that you can get a custom model done. But I don't think SE would ever do their own 3d printings of characters. It would be nice though.

While I'm sure they could plug something into a 3D printer with your character model and their glams, that certainly wouldn't be the quality they'd likely want to produce.

they allready offer statues of like there famous characters like cloud and tifa they can make them in the same quality and decide on a pricing for it

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Originally Posted by MythicalCat

they allready offer statues of like there famous characters like cloud and tifa they can make them in the same quality and decide on a pricing for it

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Those have a set design and are not 3d printed.

What you are asking for would require a unique design every time, and then unique painting on top of that.

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they allready offer statues of like there famous characters like cloud and tifa they can make them in the same quality and decide on a pricing for it

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The amount of effort to go through to make miester quality level figures for one person (because who's going to be buying figures of someone elses character?) is just unrealistic.
You'd probably be spending thousands just due to the construct, molds, and entire fabrication method alone. This cost is usually offset by the fact that you can churn out multiple figures once you have the production going and are able to sell many. But in the case of a players avatar character you're very likely going to be selling one and only one. This would make the Y'shtola dollfie more affordable, and at that point you could just just construct a custom one to look like your character if you wanna go down that rabbit hole.

I'm not saying the idea is bad, I too would like my character standing proud. I'm just saying it's incredibly unrealistic and unaffordable to the average player.

true but they could ask higher price statues are usualy already high price items anyway so for customised statues people wouldnt mind a certain price range they would just have a to do a cost profit analyzition of it and then decide

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Originally Posted by MythicalCat

true but they could ask higher price statues are usualy already high price items anyway so for customised statues people wouldnt mind a certain price range they would just have a to do a cost profit analyzition of it and then decide

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They've probably already done a cost profit analyzation and determined it was not worth it. Hence the service not being available.

You would be talking 10x or more the cost of current statues. Its just not a feasible service due to complexity.

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Originally Posted by dapperfaffer

There are websites that you can get a custom model done. But I don't think SE would ever do their own 3d printings of characters. It would be nice though.

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Such as?

Honestly i've looked into such things more than a couple of times as it'd be cool to have a model of my character on my desk. but all i've found are basically npc models of the scions and stuff.

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The amount of effort to go through to make miester quality level figures for one person (because who's going to be buying figures of someone elses character?) is just unrealistic.
You'd probably be spending thousands just due to the construct, molds, and entire fabrication method alone.

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If you could convert the in game models to a cad file or something you could essentially just design your character in something like the games character creator. choose the gear you want to wear and export it and print it with a 3d printer. so you wouldnt really require any molds or heavy fabrication.

From there it'd just be a question of painting it I guess..

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Such as?

Honestly i've looked into such things more than a couple of times as it'd be cool to have a model of my character on my desk. but all i've found are basically npc models of the scions and stuff.

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Etsy has people doing even ffxiv specific stuff. Get a custom character head slap that bad boy on a barbie and you got yourself your character.
You can get custom doll clothes almost anywhere but I've found for a ...okayish price someone doing custom models down to your weapon.

But again, these aren't meister quality and for the prices you see, you never will get that.

Dating a 3D artist irl (we have a variety of printers in our basement ranging from the tiny to one that can print car bodies).

Going to regurgitate the answer he gave before in a thread like this...maybe a year ago?

It would be....INSANELY expensive to 3D print our WoLs, specifically in terms of material that would need to be used (normal plastic filament would not be able to get the quality we'd be expecting) and also in the amount of time it would take to print each model (while also praying it doesn't mess up in the process). It just would not be worth it nor would the average paying customer be able to afford it.

Depending on the amount of money you're willing to drop.. might be cheaper to pickup a UV/resin printer, learn to use a 3d program, rip the models out of the game and print/paint it yourself.

I'm with you that I'd pay a pretty penny to get a little figure of my WoL to hangout on my desk.. but hey...

business opportunity! Learn to do it. Get good at it. Sell it to other people to cover your costs XD

Sounds cool but expensive as hell..... they already charge 100$+ on a plushy

the xiv models are segmented and not easy to print without extensive cleanup