Quote Originally Posted by Remish View Post
Etsy is a place for artists with freedom of creativity and not big industry merchandise. Which is usually cheaper than any official merchandise so the comparison is apples to oranges. They also said their lack of Emet merchandise was that they wanted to wait until his role in the story was over. Pretty sure they addressed that at some point.
Etsy still shows that there's significant demand for merchandise based on many characters that are largely absent on the Square Enix store for reasons that, honestly, don't really hold up. Why, exactly, does a character's role in the story need to be 'over' before merchandise is sold? That certainly isn't the case for Y'shtola or G'raha.

It can't be an aversion to selling merchandise based around antagonists, either, based on the presence of Sephiroth and Rufus Shinra figurines being sold.

I daresay some characters, particularly the Scions, are artificially pushed more heavily than their actual popularity would arguably justify.