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Square Enix Bans Final Fantasy XIII Trailers

January 28, 2009 in News comments 29

Blend Games (part of Cinema Blend) wrote about the recent problem they encountered with Square Enix and the new Final Fantasy XIII trailer. Apparently Square doesn't want certain gaming website covering certain parts of their games.

Because of legal complications we’re not able to go into full details here, but you should know that Blend Games will no longer cover Square Enix game trailers. Not because we don’t want to, but because they won’t let us. All we can say is that our recent coverage of Final Fantasy XIII was not something that Square Enix wanted. It wasn’t anything we said, they simply didn’t want us showing you their trailer. At all.
vortis via cinemablend.com »
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  • 10
    TurMoiL911 Jan 29, 09
    So Square Enix wants to keep websites from hosting a video game trailer ?

    ...

    Good luck with that, guys. Have fun regulating the Internet.
  • 0
    Shuyu Jan 29, 09
    Well gee, Square Enix, maybe next time you shouldn't make it so easy to rip the videos from the website.

    I actually heard something about this on GAF before the trailers were put up anyway. Apparently they sent emails out to major online websites not to host the trailer themselves... Yeah, Square Enix is pretty new to the internet.

    But I don't know why people felt the need to rip the trailers and rehost them anyway, it's not that hard to point someone to any of the three official sites and say "Here. Go nuts."
  • 1
    Absolute Jan 29, 09
    I'm starting to dislike Square as much as I used to dislike EA...
    • 1
      iLLmatic Jan 29, 09
      Seriously, they've been doing so many questionable things in recent times, that I don't even look forward to their projects anymore, at least not nearly as much as I used to.
    • 1
      Onvacation Jan 29, 09
      Hear Hear, They seem to show malace to their fans more then anything now
    • 1
      Krunal Jan 29, 09
      I definitely dislike Square more than EA. I have no qualms with EA actually, but I have problems with SquareEnix (not with Square Soft however).
      • 1
        Absolute Jan 30, 09
        I used to hate EA, but they have shown that they are willing to release quality games after Dead Space and Mirror's Edge
        • 0
          chautemoc Jan 31, 09
          Don't forget Spore, Fifa 09..and I think Im missing a few others.

          In terms of game content, I prefer EA nowadays for sure. But in terms of company policy (see: DRM/progressive-mindedness), I would easily pick Square.
  • 0
    Pyrazor Jan 29, 09
    Well I never had a Playstation so I didn't become a big fan of them but they are seeming questionable nowadays.

    If Star Ocean IV is good though, I'll certainly get it.
  • 1
    phowell23 Jan 29, 09
    Another dick move by SE, whats new.
  • 1
    FinalFantasyFanaticc Jan 29, 09
    Ever since FFIX Square have just been going more and more down a VERY steep slope =/
  • 3
    Miss Razz Jan 29, 09
    Isn't the point of trailers to promote the game and give gamers a glimpse at what the game looks like? I would've thought Squeenix would be thrilled with websites showing their trailer to as many fans as possible.

    Plus, not everyone can watch the trailers on the official sites. (official sites can be a real bitch to load, even with broadband). It's pretty unfair that they expect everyone to go to their official site to watch the trailer. Alot of people probably wouldn't bother.
    • 0
      Seventh Blade Jan 29, 09
      But you see, Squeenix isn't concerned with fans watching the trailer. They're more concerned with fans not watching the trailer, or more importantly, when they didn't watch the trailer. They would rather have the answer to the question "When didn't you watch the trailer?" be "always" then have the answer to the question "When have you watched the trailer?" be "yesterday", or "an hour ago", or "a few times last week", or "when I was in bed with your sister-in-law who tends to be bit too rambunctious during video game trailers, if you know what I mean". You see, "always" implies a tautology, and if they can get a tautology out of one of their fans, they must be doing everything right; otherwise it wouldn't be a tautology, would it? WOULD IT?

      Flawless logic from Squeenix, as always.
      • 1
        GTA_Fanatic Jan 29, 09
        I read that three times and it still doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm just tired after a long school day, but could you translate that into English, please?
      • 3
        Krunal Jan 29, 09
        What? You made no sense there whatsoever... oh wait it didn't make any sense to GTA Fanatic either... at least I wasn't the only person that it didn't make sense to... and I know that even if I've had a pint I'm more than enough awake to have been able to understand that comment had it.... made sense.
      • 0
        Seventh Blade Jan 30, 09
        That only furthers my point, but I've edited for clarity anyway because I tend to be a sympathetic crier. Try reading it again.
        • 0
          GTA_Fanatic Jan 30, 09
          I still don't understand.
        • 0
          Krunal Jan 30, 09
          Flawless logic from Squareenix, Flawed logic from you... I still don't get 90% of that. I think your trying to say that Square Enix don't want people to watch their trailers, and would rather when they ask "when did you see the trailer" that people answer "never".

          If that is what you meant, couldn't you have just said it like that?
  • 1
    GTA_Fanatic Jan 29, 09
    They should consider firing their advertising department (or whichever department is responsible for this tom-foolery)...
  • 1
    BANDITO ATTACK Jan 29, 09
    square-enix are assholes.
  • 0
    Krunal Jan 29, 09
    Any chance anyone has hosted the trailer for FFXIII that Blend Games were forced to remove? Would love to see it now...
    • 0
      chautemoc Jan 29, 09
      Well it's on the official site here:

      http://www.finalfantasy13game.com/

      Thats where they want you to go though.
      • 1
        Krunal Jan 30, 09
        As an act of defiance, I'm hosting the trailer on Neoseeker... they've frikin released the trailer on the PSN Store, so I might as well make use of that fact, download it from there and upload it here.
        • 1
          chautemoc Jan 31, 09
          Stick it to the man, Krunal.
  • 0
    kik36 Jan 30, 09
    There was a new one on Gametrailers today as well, but didn't have time to compare if it was the same one.

    Also it's up on the NA PSN store as well.
    • 0
      vortis Jan 30, 09
      quote kik36
      There was a new one on Gametrailers today as well, but didn't have time to compare if it was the same one.

      Also it's up on the NA PSN store as well.

      It makes even less sense about the legal threats then. Maybe Blend Games wasn't supposed to have it up before PSN and Gametrailers?
      • 2
        Shuyu Jan 31, 09
        Square Enix is a bit funny about protecting their copyrights, especially when Final Fantasy is involved. Following the Tokyo Game Show, a video of 3 trailers recorded from the Closed Mega Theatre popped up on YouTube - I think it's still up, actually - and then audio of the FFXIII trailer appeared on YouTube as well. The audio disappeared within about 5-10 minutes.

        But I can understand where they're coming from. It's their property, if you post it without their permission, they're well within their rights to threaten legal action. On the other hand, it was downright moronic for them to think a nicely worded letter a day beforehand would stop it.

        Of course, I think the best versions are the 1080p ones I got from the Stores anyway, the ones I downloaded from other places looked terrible. Even the FLV from the site looked bad, to be honest.
        • 0
          Cruxis Mana Feb 1, 09
          They only seem to have banned small games sites too.

          Big sites such as Gametrailers and IGN have both got the trailer hosted themselves.
  • 0
    vortis Feb 2, 09
    Oh well, I guess Square just doesn't like small gaming news website. lol

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