FINAL FANTASY XIV Player Character[ACTION FIGURE]

[LianaThorne]

that’s an impossible request. even if they were 3d printed, they’d have to mold a 3d model in a specific program, and 3d print this model (which takes about anywhere from 10-70 hours), clean the model up, hand paint it, etc etc. they’d have to do this on command for EVERYONE who ordered this, and because it’s an artistic endeavor rather than something that can be manufactured and trained, each model would have imperfections and slight differences to each other in terms of quality depending on who painted the model, who cleaned it up, etc etc.

and if it weren’t 3d printed that means it would have to be hand molded, which would be hundreds of hours of manpower per player character.

Can confirm this is the reality. I have a ton of experience working with 3D printers (I have 3 currently in my house). It would be a ton of work for whoever got handed the task because they'd have to:

Create the model first
Send it to the printer
Pray to everything holy that the print/printer doesn't fuck itself up during the actual printing process and cause you to restart
Clean it up (i.e. remove all of the excess plastic sticking out of places)
Paint it & finish it

I doubt SE would pay people properly for these efforts either. Also, it would probably be more than $100 for each figure in my opinion, since they'd be charging for plastic costs, manpower and they also have to make a profit.

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Spoke to someone else who is more in the business than I am (ironically enough was here working on a print) and he said that it would 100% cost more than $100 and for the detail that we would want, Square would have to use liquid resin rather than normal printing plastic and is also extremely expensive. So, you're probably looking more into the $500-1000 range for everything once all is said and done.