Demon Slayer Collaboration

[MilkieTea]

All of this unattributed fanart....

On that note, can you (OP) credit the fanart or if that’s too much, replace all instances of the fanart with screenshots and official art from the show? Fanartists work hard and spend hours on their works, uncredited fanart is just... not it, chief.

[Gula]

On that note, can you (OP) credit the fanart or if that’s too much, replace all instances of the fanart with screenshots and official art from the show? Fanartists work hard and spend hours on their works, uncredited fanart is just... not it, chief.

The fact that they used fan art is the real deal breaker. It's like showing modded screenshots/fan art to sell someone on FFXIV. That's not the product. And I say this as someone who watched the series.

[MilkieTea]

And related directly to the topic of the thread, I feel like the show’s a bit... overhyped? This reminds me of when games would have collabs with things like Bleach, Black Butler, etc etc. Like, it’s great on it’s own but the hype train has gotta stop at some point.

Does that mean I’d be upset if they did another collab with something? Nah. But I personally don’t think it’s necessary.

[Haru304]

I'd rather FFXIV stick firmly to game related cross-overs. Seeing a bunch of things from every anime in existence is really going to have an impact on overall immersion, imo. It's one thing to see someone wearing a slime crown from a game series closely resembling this one but if someone runs by me wearing cosplay pieces from -insert generic shonen anime here- then I think that might be a part of a tipping point for me, lol.

[ItMe]

I'd rather FFXIV stick firmly to game related cross-overs. Seeing a bunch of things from every anime in existence is really going to have an impact on overall immersion, imo. It's one thing to see someone wearing a slime crown from a game series closely resembling this one but if someone runs by me wearing cosplay pieces from -insert generic shonen anime here- then I think that might be a part of a tipping point for me, lol.

Devil's advocate: I don't see how it's much different from our cosplay pieces from FF8 or FF9. Demon Slayer is more aesthetically similar than most of the stuff we get from within our own franchise. The FF13 stuff still looks really odd to me.

[Haru304]

Devil's advocate: I don't see how it's much different from our cosplay pieces from FF8 or FF9. Demon Slayer is more aesthetically similar than most of the stuff we get from within our own franchise. The FF13 stuff still looks really odd to me.

It's more just 'knowing'. If I see Lightning's gunblade, I know it's a Final Fantasy-verse construct. If I see someone running around with Ichigo's zangetsu, for instances, I know it's from Bleach and if I see more items or cosmetics from anime brands I recognize, the whole thing starts to feel a bit theme-parky. Where would the cross-overs stop?

[ItMe]

It's more just 'knowing'. If I see Lightning's gunblade, I know it's a Final Fantasy-verse construct. If I see someone running around with Ichigo's zangetsu, for instances, I know it's from Bleach and if I see more items or cosmetics from anime brands I recognize, the whole thing starts to feel a bit theme-parky. Where would the cross-overs stop?

Ideally they'd stop before they even got started.
Seeing a cosplay glams at all does the harm you suggest, though I suppose players cobble their own together from existing pieces regardless.

Perhaps because of all the weird hoop jumping the Ivalice raids had to do to establish part of FF12 and Tactics worldsetting inside FF14, all other FF games feel alien to FF14's world to me. If FF15 and Nier can come through portals to play around in Eorzea, other things with similar aesthetics shouldn't be counted out just because this sword wielder comes from something other than a video game, especially when we've had a Garo crossover.

(That said I'm not personally behind a Demon Slayer crossover.)

[Divinemights]

I don't think S/E willing to work with this one because main character has some controversy issue with Korean and Chinese.
His earring was an old Japanese empire sun flag and that has triggered many asian nations.

[BiddyBatnana]

Nah not interested in this.

[SturmChurro]

I'd rather keeps ads in my games to a nonexistent.