Square Enix has trademarked "Square Soft" and "Enix" in Japan

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Jon-Erich on 12 February 2015

The Fury said:

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Really? How old are you?

Anyway, it was most likely done for copyright protection reasons or protection from phony websites.

Dude, not all of us are mid 30 something old timers who remember playing games on our Commodore 64s. There's a fair few teenagers here and Squenix merged 12 years ago.

Well, you are right. I'm only 30 years old and I never owned a Commodore 64. The Commodore 64 was discontinued roughly 2 years before my family got our first computer.

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Jon-Erich on 12 February 2015

The_Sony_Girl1 said:

Jon-Erich said:

Really? How old are you?

Anyway, it was most likely done for copyright protection reasons or protection from phony websites.

I'm 15, and I'm turning 16 on March 14.

Oh. Well I just turned 30 and I remember Squaresoft being that goto company for JRPG games in the 1990's. Enix was never nearly as big in the Western hemisphere as Square was though Dragon Quest was popular enough for the sequels to keep coming. Ironically, the first game I played from Square wasn't a Final Fantasy game at all. It was Rad Racer on the NES. When Final Fantasy came out, I wasn't quite old enough to fully understand how RPG games worked so I watched my older brother play the first game until I was eventually able to play it.

Given the differences between how Enix performed in Japan compared to the West, I was surprised to find that when Square and Enix merged, it was Enix who effectively took over Square, although I later understood why this happened.

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