Hironobu Sakaguchi, Angry At SE Gouging.

Square Enix recently announced a very pretty 1/6 scale ff6 statue, which can be yours for the low price of $11,500.

This lead to Hironobu Sakaguchi (creator of FF) pointing out on Twitter this is incredibly overpriced.


https://www.escapistmagazine.com/final-fantasy-vi-terra-statue-ffvi-12000-too-expensive-creator-hironobu-sakaguch

wait what, that is absolutely insane. I regularly buy statues and the last SE one was the FF9 for almost 1k but in general 1~4k is normal for big high end statues. 12k is just insane lol. Maybe for something 1/1 scale, but it doesnt seem that big.

Well, that's one way to max out that wife aggro stat you have been working with all the toys she didn't agree with you.

I just wonder what is really the point.

Stuffs like that aren’t fabricated in large scale, its niche and for collectors only. I can see you can create a handful, eventually someone will buy it but i dont think a merchandise like that could become any sort of relevant revenue to a big company like SE. So why?

Maybe they could just sell the brand, and let someone else producing and selling a product for more costumers than locking it to collectors niche

The first square Enix merchandise where it costs more to buy the item than to ship it

probably publicity. we talk about it so it works and it's probably a lot cheaper than making something decent, competitively priced to make ppl talk about you.

Putting Yoshi P on the board of directors was a bad idea.

I saw this statue, I was gonna get it, and I could...but for 11k? That is just...no lol. I cannot give in to that type of greed.

Question is: where would you put it? That thing is huge.


Definitely wouldn't be cheap to ship that. Even high quality material would easily get damaged.

I like that it’s “limited” to 600 units. Are they rally gonna find that many people so easily removed from their money given how the global economy is going?

Looks beautiful though.

streamers, tubers and game devs will buy them

There is a market. It is quite a nice piece.

A limited run of 600 with a price of 5k would blow out the door to those who know the value will likely increase over time. At 11.5k that weeds those out. Maybe..

What’s “overpriced” to you & me is still worth purchase to someone else & in the line of Collectibles where Baseball Cards end up w/ price values far exceeding their initial sales price such pricing doesn’t seem unwarranted. Let alone paintings & other forms of Art that are to you & me “price gouging” yet still sell due to limited quantities vs demand.

I don’t see a problem here. That Dev thinks one of those Statues should exist in way more ppl’s hands while SquareEnix just wants to make such an actual extreme limited quantity item rather than what the Dev wants.

hahaha that's great xD spirits within could've been really cool if they didn't drop the ball so hard.

Really 600 pieces is actually a lot, something like 300 or less would be more rare. That price is absolutely ridiculous, even for serious collectors. What makes it worse is it has to be imported too lol. They should have just sold like 10 of them and then probably get some mega million/billionaires or youtubers to buy it and flex.

Prime1 is one of the most expensive studios tho, I usually see this guys videos and he would prolly be the type to collect something like this lol:





Now after shipping (gonna be a lot for something that heavy) and tax and all that is around 14~15k lol.

There other statue wasnt even much smaller and went for p standard price

Statues are some of the hardest things to resell. Very picky customer base who want it in pristine condition or want a billion discounts. The statues themselves are hard to keep in pristine conditions tho, hard to fit something that big into a sealed detolf or shelf and its always exposed etc. I usually collect resin statues but around a foot tall at max so they aren't always big. Easier to take care of but those are so fragile. I would think someone would do better buying/reselling hot toys instead of statues.