Wakanda forever emote?

[ElazulHP]

Change it to Eorzea forever, but use the same gesture and problem solved with legal. You can't trademark or own hand gestures.

EDIT: We already have DBZ powerup emotes, etc. Might as well add something like this as well into the Mog Station.

[DPZ2]

ou can't trademark or own hand gestures.

You may want to check what, exactly, is covered by the 'Wakanda' trademark before you give legal advice. It can get quite detailed, and video games are mentioned in the precis.

[Vonleo]

You may want to check what, exactly, is covered by the 'Wakanda' trademark before you give legal advice. It can get quite detailed, and video games are mentioned in the precis.

Well I guess I should go ahead and trade mark the middle finger and the "come here" gesture. The Wakanda gesture isn't trade marked they can't do it its too big of a broad scope to cover. Also putting your arms in cross against your chest is nothing now if SE made the character say "wakanda forever" then they might have legal ground but the gesture alone would be thrown out pretty quick.

[Gameovers]

I had a thought.... I'm sure most of us are nerds and love comics... And with the passing of Chadwick and everything he did... Would it be a good idea to make a "Wakanda forever" emote and some of the proceeds if not all should go to cancer research or something he promoted? What say you?

Who is Chadwick? I literally only play video games so if it doesn't cross over into that and I don't know.

[Alestorm]

Who is Chadwick? I literally only play video games so if it doesn't cross over into that and I don't know.

Guy who played Black Panther in the Marvel movies.

I would say no to this idea on the grounds that A. he had nothing to do with this game and B. it would be in bad taste to sell something like that.

[ItMe]

I would say no to this idea on the grounds that A. he had nothing to do with this game and B. it would be in bad taste to sell something like that.

I'm with you.
Like, it's not even tangentially related to FF and never has been.
I had to look up what a Wakanda was, and I read comics.
If SQEX is gonna do something to honor them, the gesture shouldn't randomly be shoved into an unrelated property.

And yeah, I also think it would be in real bad taste to sell it.

[Stepjam]

My issue with it would be more it being in bad taste to capitalize off his death. I'm not too worried about it clashing with the game considering we already have Yokai watch and Garo related stuff that don't fit the setting at all.

[DBriggs304]

Would love it!

[MistakeNot]

I had a thought.... I'm sure most of us are nerds and love comics... And with the passing of Chadwick and everything he did... Would it be a good idea to make a "Wakanda forever" emote and some of the proceeds if not all should go to cancer research or something he promoted? What say you?

I say no.
Nothing against Chadwick, but I do not think that sort of thing really belongs in FFXIV.
If you want to give to some charity, you can do so anyway.

Besides, while I am sure there are plenty of nerds here, I bet most people here wouldn't have been able to tell you who Chadwick was if you had asked them two weeks ago. He wasn't quite that famous.

[Vonleo]

I say no.
Nothing against Chadwick, but I do not think that sort of thing really belongs in FFXIV.
If you want to give to some charity, you can do so anyway.

Besides, while I am sure there are plenty of nerds here, I bet most people here wouldn't have been able to tell you who Chadwick was if you had asked them two weeks ago. He wasn't quite that famous.

Excuse me? Chadwick wasn't popular until two weeks ago? you do know Black Panther has been out since 2018 right? He is very popular especially in the black community. You underestimate the following of a comic book hero by a country mile.