Square is risking BIG lawsuit with pictomancer...

[Sea-Wolf]

I don't know if they took inspiration from Artist from LoA, but I'm worried about BIG lawsuit coming from Nixon. Since Nixon owns LoA and has been very aggressive about lawsuit before. The only saving grace is that they are in Korea and Square is in Japan so it will be harder for them to sue. I think Square made a huge mistake because Pictomancer is too like Artist... If Nixon sues Square successfully they may need to delete Pictomancer from the game as a settlement, so hold off on leveling it for now... Wait and see.

[Rehayem]

Pictomancer came before LoA, and there's no copyright for "a person wielding a big paintbrush to attack enemies"

[Sea-Wolf]

Pictomancer came before LoA, and there's no copyright for "a person wielding a big paintbrush to attack enemies"

Ahem. Pictomancer is made this year and revealed, Artist in LoA was made a few years ago...

[Rehayem]

Ahem. Pictomancer is made this year and revealed, Artist in LoA was made a few years ago...

Pictomancer appeared first with Relm Arrowny from Final Fantasy VI, which is from 1994.

[Menriq]

Ahem. Pictomancer is made this year and revealed, Artist in LoA was made a few years ago...

Someone hasn't played previous Final Fantasy games it seems.

[Sea-Wolf]

Pictomancer appeared first with Relm Arrowny from Final Fantasy VI, which is from 1994.

In FF6, Relm draws the enemies to use the enemy attack against itself. But here you are using paintbrush to make magical attacks, just like LoA Artist, which is why it's dangerous for Square and risky for a lawsuit...

[Rehayem]

In FF6, Relm draws the enemies to use the enemy attack against itself. But here you are using paintbrush to make magical attacks, just like LoA Artist, which is why it's dangerous for Square and risky for a lawsuit...

No, there's no lawsuit, because as I mentioned before, there's no copyright for a person wielding a paint brush as a weapon. If that were the case, everyone would be sued to death because real life artists use paint brushes.

[Sea-Wolf]

No, there's no lawsuit, because as I mentioned before, there's no copyright for a person wielding a paint brush as a weapon. If that were the case, everyone would be sued to death because real life artists use paint brushes.

When you play games like FF14 or LoA, at the start the there is a small footnote at the bottom saying Copyright Symbol Square Enix or Copyright Symbol Nixon.... That means the entire game is copyright, including the class design like Artist...

[Rehayem]

When you play games like FF14 or LoA, at the start the there is a small footnote at the bottom saying Copyright Symbol Square Enix or Copyright Symbol Nixon.... That means the entire game is copyright, including the class design like Artist...

Stop trying to pretend like there's going to be a copyright lawsuit.

[Mikey_R]

I remember when everyone was suing because any warrior/fighter/knight etc. from any game was using a sword.

Oh wait....