Square is risking BIG lawsuit with pictomancer...

[Gemina]

Didn't SE face a big 'ol lawsuit for Fiend? They pretty much ripped it from Powerman 5000's World's Collide? What exactly happened here?

FF entire history lacks originality, but that by itself is not a crime. There's nothing wrong with putting your own spin on an existing cliche, or stereotype. But that's not the same as straight up ripping off someone else's idea. Had it not been pointed out, I would have thought the LoA artwork on the first page was associated with pictomancer. But this comes from a view of not knowing LoA existed previous to this thread.

[Patesaupesto]

Didn't SE face a big 'ol lawsuit for Fiend? They pretty much ripped it from Powerman 5000's World's Collide? What exactly happened here?

FF entire history lacks originality, but that by itself is not a crime. There's nothing wrong with putting your own spin on an existing cliche, or stereotype. But that's not the same as straight up ripping off someone else's idea. Had it not been pointed out, I would have thought the LoA artwork on the first page was associated with pictomancer. But this comes from a view of not knowing LoA existed previous to this thread.

Please read the whole topic before responding. You wouldve learnt that this is a troll and you just fell for it.

[Gemina]

Please read the whole topic before responding. You wouldve learnt that this is a troll and you just fell for it.

I've actually been around awhile. Perhaps not as much recently as in previous years, but still enough to know that the OP has no love for Pictomancer and is constantly called a troll for his views, and an unpopular view does not necessarily make someone a troll. Especially if it triggers overly sensitive people with too much time on their hands.

But for the sake of argument let's say OP is a huge troll. This thread has reached 10 pages. Mine being in the latter half. Why did you choose mine to single out? Especially considering that it asks a genuine question that places accountability on SE for copyright infringement?

[MikkoAkure]

I've actually been around awhile. Perhaps not as much recently as in previous years, but still enough to know that the OP has no love for Pictomancer and is constantly called a troll for his views, and an unpopular view does not necessarily make someone a troll. Especially if it triggers overly sensitive people with too much time on their hands.

But for the sake of argument let's say OP is a huge troll. This thread has reached 10 pages. Mine being in the latter half. Why did you choose mine to single out? Especially considering that it asks a genuine question that places accountability on SE for copyright infringement?

It's a troll thread when it's obvious bait from someone who is already well known for posting stuff like this. If you're having trouble deciding, you can check the OP's character and they will likely only have 1 DoM/DoW at 90 but full DoL/DoH 90s.

As far as the content of the thread, there's no actual genuine anything. It's already been pointed out that Relm from FFVI and Pictomancer from both Bravely Default II and Brave Exvius Season 3 all predate the artist class from LoA. There's been whole threads in this forum asking for pictomancer to be a playable job that are older than the artist class from LoA. If anything, they would have more likely taken the idea from SE instead of the other way around.

Art magic has been around in media for a long long time anyway. You can't copyright throwing fireballs so I don't understand how you could copyright paint magic.

[Sea-Wolf]

Didn't SE face a big 'ol lawsuit for Fiend? They pretty much ripped it from Powerman 5000's World's Collide? What exactly happened here?

FF entire history lacks originality, but that by itself is not a crime. There's nothing wrong with putting your own spin on an existing cliche, or stereotype. But that's not the same as straight up ripping off someone else's idea. Had it not been pointed out, I would have thought the LoA artwork on the first page was associated with pictomancer. But this comes from a view of not knowing LoA existed previous to this thread.

Exactly, in the law court. They will show a jury an Artist and a Pictomancer, and ask: who is who, when the jury all fail SE will be in DEEP "Trouble".,