• Live Action Final Fantasy VII Kickstarter removed after copyright complaint
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[quote="Ars Technica"] A Final Fantasy VII fan project aiming to produce a live-action web series based on the game has had its Kickstarter suspended over copyright infringement claims by developer Square Enix. The project was requesting $400,000 to finance 5-6 episodes lasting around 15 minutes each and was positioned as a "tribute" to the series. Square Enix has responded stating "The project itself is in infringement of our copyrights and should be removed in its entirety from Kickstarter." The series was initially teased as a proof-of-concept live-action trailer, but a two-minute fan project video is a vastly different prospect to a series the length of a feature film. There's also the crowdfunding aspect which means that if anything goes awry, the disgruntlement of fans who have invested in the unofficial work could negatively impact the Final Fantasy brand—something it seems Square prefers come from its own developers at the moment. The notice cites registered copyrights to support its claim, and the Kickstarter has been taken offline until the matter can be resolved. "Square Enix is the owner of all intellectual property rights to the Final Fantasy franchise under which video games, online services, and motion pictures have been published. The video game Final Fantasy VII has been registered with the Copyright Office, including but not limited to, US Copyright No. TX0004508436 and V3519D554."[/quote] [url="www.arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/08/final-fantasy-vii-kickstarter-removed-after-copyright-complaint/"]Source[/url]. This is probably going to set the standard for fan films on Kickstarter for now on.
Well, I can understand seeing how there's no way to confirm where exactly the money is going. Not to mention they are the rights holder.
Thank heavens it was removed, it looked really terrible. I mean when I saw that Aeris's actor looked ugly and the music was straight from the original game in midi format, I just knew it wasn't gonna work
How did they think they could get away with this lmao
Thank god. The trailer was pretty bad.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one that was hoping this wouldn't take off.
Anyone got a mirror to the pitch video? [editline]3rd August 2013[/editline] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57quPqN1i0w[/media] Think I found it
The guy they got for Barret is nothing like him and the gun arm looks like it was designed for a man several times his size. Hell, nobody looks like the characters they are playing.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/3Br0wr5.gif[/img] Huppetidoo i'm Barret
FF7 was an absolutely fantastic game but come on we've gotten the the game which was great, the prequel which was good, the movie which was scary bad, and Dirge of Cerberus which was also really shitty. The last thing we need is to touch shit more because IMO it kind of gets worse every time. It kind of devalues the game to think of the shit tacked on outside of Crisis Core which actually felt like it needed to happen and could without it being some fan-service emo circle-jerk. A web series does not need to happen and literally will add nothing but a relatively low budget take on everything we've seen and done. I think people need to let shit go. Just leave it where it is.
worst thing they did with this film was to not update the costume design or anything at all. it's bad enough that they couldn't manage to hire anyone who actually looks like who they're supposed to be playing, but then they had to try and make the original character design 1:1 those costumes work in the game world. the visuals were generally pretty bad but the weird scale and colours in everything worked as a whole. you can't do that with live-action
[QUOTE=RainbowPillows;41695975]outside of Crisis Core which actually felt like it needed to happen and could without it being some fan-service emo circle-jerk[/QUOTE] I liked Crisis Core overall, but they fucked with the story and introduced elements that shouldn't even have been there. The most bullshit was [sp]Genesis. They transformed sephiroth's revelation and discovery that he was an experiment from something he discovered of his own accord that enraged him to...somebody telling him and just willingly believing it. The fuck? [/sp] I'm honestly surprised they didn't fuck it up anymore - and yet, unsurprisingly, it managed to make the franchise a hell of a lot cheesier. And then on top of that, I know tons of people who play Crisis Core [I]first[/I] then go back to FF7, which [B]severely[/B] spoils the story for them.
[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;41699483] And then on top of that, I know tons of people who play Crisis Core [I]first[/I] then go back to FF7, which [B]severely[/B] spoils the story for them.[/QUOTE] Guilty as charged. To be fair I didn't grow up with a PS1 and I probably wouldn't have ever played FF7 if I hadn't played Crisis Core, and I knew I was heavily spoiled going into it.
was this going to be a new story or a "REMAKE" of FFVII 1
I'm surprised they actually thought that it was okay for them to do this.
[QUOTE=TurbisV2;41695588][img]http://i.imgur.com/3Br0wr5.gif[/img] Huppetidoo i'm Barret[/QUOTE] Jesus fuck the way he runs. It's like the entire thing was trying to be ironic or something. Also, the people in the background just staring like that :V [editline]3rd August 2013[/editline] And before I forget: [QUOTE=RainbowPillows;41695975]and Dirge of Cerberus which was also really shitty.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;gvdf5n-zI14]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14[/video]
How do so many games have such horrible fanbases?
Pretty much anyone who is a fan of anything is a piece of shit regardless of the quality of what they're a fan of
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