Hairstyle Contest winners announced!

Congrats to the winners, I can even see myself using the male style on my pretty boy Josh.

Still wish we had a few more wild-ish/spiky cuts. As it stands, I have this and the lightning cut, which I have no access to. And occasionally the gold saucer ponytail which I always regret five minutes later and burn 4000 gil for no changes whatsoever.

Wooo my votes won after all.

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Originally Posted by ThinkPInk

Whee! Another ponytail...

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But this one is from the side

its from the side

Are the winners and runner-ups all from Japan? Is that a coincidence?

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Originally Posted by Averax

But this one is from the side

its from the side

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and it will clip trough a lot of stuff, starting whit au ra horns

Called it.

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Originally Posted by Fyce

http://i.imgur.com/U4l6mdF.jpg

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Sigh...and we have another one ponytail hairstyle :/

Yaaaaay, the usaul cliche ''I'm so pwetty, watch me save Eorzea like a frigging model instead of a battle hardened adventurer'' look. Guess I get to save 2k gil when 3.1 hits.

Any1 know how those scarfs looks, random 140 people will get?

Wish the runner-up female entry won, it's actually something unique looking.

Instead, a bland looking hybrid between the GS ponytail and the Lightning hair won, woo...

So many good choices... And we get... That, instead... But, I'm not blaming the voters, I actually blame the way the voting was designed. If you'll notice, the winners don't even have as many Likes as some of the runners up, but what they do have is a very close proximity to the end of the list. Which means, by the stupid rules SE put forth... They had a much better shot at winning, than the other choices near the first of the list.

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Originally Posted by AsahinaMyLove

Any1 know how those scarfs looks, random 140 people will get?

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http://i.imgur.com/nSjAAid.jpg

I'm really happy about the female winner. It's simple but still cute imo. The 1st female runner up is the same ponytail we got with HW, just with a braid slapped onto it.
The male one is cute too! I'll definitely have to remake one of my retainers into a Miqo boy to use it when it comes out.

All the submissions sucked, girly hair for men? I swear this community prefers playing dress up more than actual gameplay mechanics and quality of life stuff.

Not really digging the simple/cute vibe I'm getting from the winner. I was kinda hoping for something more exotic or wild - something that screams "adventurer" rather than "delicate flower".

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/6d2...31c4dda9_0.jpg http://i.imgur.com/FN1GA4c.gif http://i.imgur.com/JeBqNBI.gif

One more to the mix. :D

I'm glad sausage-braid didn't make it at least.
All the hairstyle nicknames are Japanese? :rolleyes:

One for boys, females and girls. No for men :D. Luckily i play female

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Originally Posted by Ashelia_Ferron

The fact that there were so many side ponytails goes to show how "creative and unique" the design is.

I personally wanted the winner to be something different for once

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the forehead is free. Something that is not the majority of the current female hairstyles.

Aw the hairstyle I wanted got Runner-Up. Pity. I wanted the braid. Aw well, so is life.

Good job winners.

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Originally Posted by lynn_

I'm really happy about the female winner. It's simple but still cute imo. The 1st female runner up is the same ponytail we got with HW, just with a braid slapped onto it.
The male one is cute too! I'll definitely have to remake one of my retainers into a Miqo boy to use it when it comes out.

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How does spikey ponytail = smooth and wavy?

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Originally Posted by lynn_

I'm really happy about the female winner. It's simple but still cute imo. The 1st female runner up is the same ponytail we got with HW, just with a braid slapped onto it.
The male one is cute too! I'll definitely have to remake one of my retainers into a Miqo boy to use it when it comes out.

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I guess we have different games.

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Originally Posted by Kedo

All the submissions sucked, girly hair for men? I swear this community prefers playing dress up more than actual gameplay mechanics and quality of life stuff.

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WHHHHHHHHHHHY SOOOOOOOOOOOO SERRRRRRRIOUS?!

It sucks the first female runner up didn't win it was the one i liked the most but the winning entry also looks nice so i'm going to enjoy it!. kinda laughed at the male winner entry though.

*sigh*
And here I was hoping, that male characters would finally become a decent looking non-shounen ai hairstyle...
I guess its not only the devs that wants us to change into female chara's but also the community.
Anyway gratz to the winners.

Apparently I voted for the female hairstyle that has since been deleted from the contest. I can't even recall what it looked like now.
So...did I technically not vote for any hairstyle at all?
I'm not holding my breath about winning the scarf, but it would be kind of lame if one of my two votes went to the Void.

This is legitimately dissapointing :/ Both the first place hairstyles on the forums lost because of the stupid forum rules. The female winner could have won simply because it was on a later page than the runner up. I was really hoping for something more interesting, than a really bland side ponytail. Oh well, maybe they'll add the runner up later on.

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Originally Posted by Dartanon

This is legitimately dissapointing :/ Both the first place hairstyles on the forums lost because of the stupid forum rules. The female winner could have won simply because it was on a later page than the runner up. I was really hoping for something more interesting, than a really bland side ponytail. Oh well, maybe they'll add the runner up later on.

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We can only hope that they decide to use the other hairs.

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Originally Posted by Ashelia_Ferron

Darn was really hoping that the first runner up would've won instead (for females).

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agree with you on that yup, it is far nicer.

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Originally Posted by AstralKaos

Wish the runner-up female entry won, it's actually something unique looking.

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It's actually not unique at all. It looks just like a style the female Midlander already has, just with one added braid.

The only issue I see with these is if they are the only ones being added, I foresee a LOT of people using them. Just cus they are new, least the upside to multiple is not everyone is the same (like with 3 jobs introduced instead of 1)

Just what I always wanted, more ponytail the side hair.

I see two in the runner ups that were way better than the winner. The first female braided hairstyle and the mail with grey hair.

Looking at the male winner, I can't help but think how awesome that hair would look on a female.

I'm soooo grateful the first female runner up didn't win. So, so grateful.

I actually really like both winners. Much better than the ones I thought might win IMHO.

I hope I win a sweet scarf though.

Not that I don't think the current winners didn't deserve their wins, I'm sure they put alot of thought and time into their designs like the others, however the voting criteria was incomplete when the contest was announced and once it was added it was after the how to vote section meaning people would still be possibly unaware of only their last like in each catagory counting.

In my opinion SE should have put the voting criteria in the section on how to vote before telling us to vote by liking on the official forums, as well as making it clear that only your last like counts so if you want something other than what's on the tail end of the list to win either relike the entry you want to win most or only like one entry for each catagory.

OR SE could have done what makes sense and go by total number of likes and not this 'what was liked last' bullcrap as it takes into account the situation of if someone like multiple entries but isn't bothered about who wins and negates the unfair advantage of being the last entries. It's also the simplest to count and simplest to understand, just like what you like, no complications. The only downside to this is that it's easier to see what is absolutely winning without having to speculate, but this would be lessened by the fact that all votes count now rather than that arbitrary last.

Yes sure the entry with the most actual likes (in the female entries) is the one that I wanted to win, however it was primarily because out of all the entries I liked it was the one I felt would use the most resources, the fact that I liked it most and liked the art style had little to do with it. It just means that unless some of the runner-ups are brought into the game I'm just not going to change hairstyle which is no big loss. What is a big loss is what could have been if only SE had been clearer (read: made it more obvious to the people that just jump to the 'how do vote' section and leave to vote as soon as the knew where to go) with how the tallying process was to be done and urged people to think carefully.

This is the Beta forums all over again, mostly middle fingers and angry rhetorical questions. How about we applaud those who won cause the only reason they did win is because people actually voted for them. Even if they did vote for themselves that's only one out of thousands. So clap, be happy for the winners and hope we get another contest in the future. And no, this isn't a discussion because there's nothing to discuss. We have our winners, decided democratically.

I'm slightly annoyed that I cast my votes before SE bothered to inform us that only the last vote counted. I liked 2 of the entries, had I known this, I would had only liked the male runner-up hairstyle. Of course the last page hairs would win when this sort of rule is implemented and announced when a lot of people have already voted... I think the voting should be done again to see which hairstyle would actually and fairly win. This was in no way fair to the people who entered the contest, the real winner now probably lost because people were no informed about the rules properly.

i feel like it was a botched contest i meen the hair styles that won save the male hair suck there generick and plain looking and have no imagination the first runner up was way better than that the winner for females

And this is why they need a poll system.

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Originally Posted by Gilraen

Th And no, this isn't a discussion because there's nothing to discuss. We have our winners, decided democratically.

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I'm sorry, but these are public forums. This isn't your thread. You're not a community manager. We can discuss if we'd like to, and we are. It's no surprise we think the voting system was inherently flawed. Would you rather us all make a whole new thread just to discuss all this again?

People are free to express their displeasures if they want to, if you don't like it don't participate

congrats to the winners,

i'll probably wear the female one once and then switch back to something else, as for the male one, a shame the male ponytail runner up didn't win i liked the design of that but hey another boy band look on the mix of thousands :D

though one thing people are forgetting if they were highly voted they did say the runner ups may be added in later patches so heres hoping the 1st runner ups in 3.2