New Shiva Figure finally confirmed

[SokiYagami]

Kinda sitting on the fence on this one. Like the statue and find the pricing within reasonable rights (if it's on the same quality as the Odin statue), but not that big a fan of XIV's Shiva and the emote. Erm...

On a side note, can I take this chance to request for a ghost Edda + voidsent Avere statue please? Red Wedding emote for the bonus? x3

[Rieze_Xeero]

Nothing wrong with the statue as merchandise will always be there for popular brands but baiting players with the emote/minion/etc. is really against what they are advocating in post 1.0 - early 2.0 Era. Now it's like they are milking us. O well it is still a good looking statue with an expensive price tag.

[SokiYagami]

Nothing wrong with the statue as merchandise will always be there for popular brands but baiting players with the emote/minion/etc. is really against what they are advocating in post 1.0 - early 2.0 Era. Now it's like they are milking us. O well it is still a good looking statue with an expensive price tag.

Well... with retainer on rental, separating of male/female cash glamours and character-only cash items, I think we are way past the "it's like they are milking us" portion already, no?

To be fair however, for a statue of this quality (once again, assuming it matches up to the Odin statue), the price tag may be more common than you think depending on where you get the statue from. It really boils down to if you think it's worth your gil.

[ErryK]

Nothing wrong with the statue as merchandise will always be there for popular brands but baiting players with the emote/minion/etc. is really against what they are advocating in post 1.0 - early 2.0 Era. Now it's like they are milking us. O well it is still a good looking statue with an expensive price tag.

It's just an emote... what does this have to do with what they were advocating in post 1.0-early 2.0 days?

[Maoska]

Compare to the most prices of any anime statue it's not that bad. I know it could scared people who don't know the common price range for figurines from anime / game created by Japanese companies. I more angry about that Shiva is as it seem to be a square Enix shop exclusive.

[Cakekizyy]

Anyone from Australia weighing in on the shipping cost?

[Texa]

SE can we have some Nedoroid figures?

Nendos are manufactured by Goodsmile and pretty much all of SE's IP has and will stay exclusive to their play arts figure brand, which isn't viewed very well by most Japanese collectors as far as I'm aware (their creatures lines were popular but not their action figures with really mixed reactions to statues). SE has done a few "chibi" figure lines similar to nendos in the past but they've usually been know to look weird, have awful stands, and not last very long as a series.

[Mature]

Looks very underwhelming

[Maoska]

SE has done a few "chibi" figure lines similar to nendos in the past but they've usually been know to look weird, have awful stands, and not last very long as a series.

Only Final Fantasy series is exclusive to Square Enix at the moment. In old times they did some collaboration with Kotobukiya (Yuna figurine) but that was years ago. We get few trading items from Taito but most of the time charms, mini figurines are produced by SE and they doing really bad job at this. Kingdom hearts get some Funko POP! but I think that Disney idea to promote game in US. After I saw YoRHa No. 2 Type B (I didn't play the game, but I think it's her name right?) created by FLARE I hope that Square Enix maybe MAYBE gonna change their mind about Final Fantasy series in the future. At least plushies are really cute.

[Texa]

Only Final Fantasy series is exclusive to Square Enix at the moment.

I should've specified ff figures you're right.

SE puts out great plush, jewelry, cds, paper media, and other apparel but their figures tend to have amazing expertly detailed prototypes with mediocre or downright bad paint apps on the finished products. Especially on the faces. The super small promo pictures for shiva aren't encouraging and I see at least a dozen points in the sculpt that are probably either going to sag over time or break during unboxing.