Doppelganger Screenshot Contest (NA) - Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by Kallera

But what are you mimicing? This is a Doppelganger contest.

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I agree.

Although to me it looks arguable that he's mimicking, in some respect, Ifrit. Even if it wasn't intentional.

But even if the mimicry isn't the best, contest qualifications aside (or to what regard those were even followed), it's a lovely screenshot.

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Originally Posted by SnowG

Ah dang, I didn't know there were these kind of event contests. I need to visit this forum more often. I like taking screenshots in this game and I think this one may have followed the rules.[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/YpHYkg3.jpg[/IMG]

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Hi SnowG! Love this pic! Can you tell me your PC set up? My graphics don't look this good, and I plan to be upgrading parts soon!!

Graphics card is a GTX 670 and my CPU is a Phenom II 975

Wow I won, wonder when they are sending these things out?
Also I think I was the only person on my server to enter...

Congratulations to everyone, It was fun to make the pictures, even some of mine I didn't use, (couldn't get a good angle on a certain enemy).

I think the contest was just about having fun making the pictures, I really really didn't expect to win, I didn't even get one like....

Ah well, thanks SE for the fun event, and cool idea for a contest.

Lots of awesome pics too guys!

Congrats King Atlas. I railed on your pic earlier in the thread but hey, at least someone from Mateus won! Hope you enjoy that Gigantpole I put up for 2 gil. Consider it a "sorry I called you out" gift. :P In case you're curious, the undercutting made me so frustrated (what was a solid niche 75,000 market plummeted to 3,000 overnight once I started selling Topwater Frogs on the Marketboard. Doh!) that I just quit trying to sell minions and got rid of the ones I had as fast as I could. The Minion market's so bad....

I suppose it's too much to expect a response from SE. Sad. :(

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Originally Posted by Selkie

I suppose it's too much to expect a response from SE. Sad. :(

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I was really hoping that they would respond considering all the comments that have been made. Acknowledgement... it's really not that hard...

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Originally Posted by Syrehn

I was really hoping that they would respond considering all the comments that have been made. Acknowledgement... it's really not that hard...

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Yeah. And it's not even like I really expected them to do anything but to be flat out ignored kind of leaves me a little raw. Ah well...

I'd also like a response to all of these thoughtful comments from many sides, as well, if my interest increases the likelihood.

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Originally Posted by Chrysomallos

I'd also like a response to all of these thoughtful comments from many sides, as well, if my interest increases the likelihood.

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Considering that this was just moved to Past Events, I'd say they don't intend to give a response at all.

It's been a week since the announcement and they've remained completely silent on the issue. They have the time to move the thread but not the time to care about what is in it. As players, their silence infers that our concerns regarding this event do not matter in the slightest. And as players, all we can do is live and learn and realize that they will likely not care in the future. All we can do is wait until the next event and, in the situation that it causes as much disagreement as this one did, we can know that all we've said fell on completely deaf ears. This might be one of the most disappointing aspects of this entire event.

Has anyone got their prize yet?

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Originally Posted by Lani

Has anyone got their prize yet?

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They haven't been sent yet. Okipuit said they'd let everyone know when that happens.

Ya... I'm still waiting

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Originally Posted by Selkie

It's been a week since the announcement and they've remained completely silent on the issue. They have the time to move the thread but not the time to care about what is in it. As players, their silence infers that our concerns regarding this event do not matter in the slightest. And as players, all we can do is live and learn and realize that they will likely not care in the future.

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This grinds my gears... between the comments here and on Facebook you'd think that SOMEONE from their organization would say SOMETHING. They broke their own requirements when picking winners for crying out loud the least they could do is own up to it and address us... but what happens instead... the thread gets shoved into "Past Events"; sweeping everyone and all our concerns and comments like dirt under a rug.

It was a "fun" community event held by a very small team of members. And why should they address the sore losers? People submitted their entries, they chose the winners, THE END. Why are you people STILL complaining about it? I don't care if they ever send me my necklace, because it was an event held on the premise of being purely fun, and I treated it as such.

You all need to grow up and get your priorities straight, silly children.

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Originally Posted by BrandoH

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Considering that you think we are upset simply by the premise of losing, you don't seem to understand the situation at all. My silence benefits your more than anything else, so I don't blame you for wishing me quiet. I suppose people also shouldn't have complained about turn five bosses getting bugged into submission. I mean, the game is for... "fun" you might say? Allagan weapon? Bah. A trinket. Merely looks different than the relic weapon. Who cares about looks in an MMO? Childish.

Might I ask, what information are you privy to that has revealed the exact number of staff involved in community events? I would love to take a look at it.

(It it helps, I quite liked your entry, but again my stances aren't based on my own subjective opinion of quality.)

Immaturity aside, it is still distasteful that, considering the response, SE chose to ignore the situation entirely.

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Originally Posted by BrandoH

It was a "fun" community event held by a very small team of members. And why should they address the sore losers? People submitted their entries, they chose the winners, THE END. Why are you people STILL complaining about it? I don't care if they ever send me my necklace, because it was an event held on the premise of being purely fun, and I treated it as such.

You all need to grow up and get your priorities straight, silly children.

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your comment has given me brain aids... it shows your complete lack of understanding/reading of the actual issues people have brought up over the course of 30 pages.

Let's see, we'll start from the top.

The amount of "blue posts" I've seen post with any title containing the word "Community" is small. It's not an extremely important job that takes a lot of people to do in the grand scheme of things, so it's quite probable that the amount of community team members is closely related to the amount that have posted (otherwise, they wouldn't be much of a community team, would they?).

Several entries chosen clearly didn't understand the "doppleganger" thing. This is true. Neither did an extremely large portion of the entries, for what it's worth. The contest was not a serious ordeal, so it seems likely that the ones that got by without following the guidelines were simply liked among the community team that judged the event.

An overwhelming amount of people are complaining about the lack of a "blue post" acknowledging the dismay of the losers of the event and those that feel that the contest was not executed in the way expected are present in this thread, and not a one of them would appear to have the wisdom to think from the other side of the table. A staff reply before a proper one is ready would hurt the situation more than help it. Expect an eventual reply, or a change in the way community events are held in the future to be their reply, only when the team is ready and has discussed all options and routes, and the people in charge have made the decision of what to do in this "customer service crisis".

As for the amount of rewards, SE has vastly underestimated the amount of North American interest before, why should this be the same? Also, the award was meant to hold some prestige. The number was larger for the European contest because the amount of countries involved is much larger. The lack of EU entries may lie in the fact that you were required to THINK for the EU contest, instead of just take a picture that took a minimal amount of thinking and planning.

So I think I understand the situation just fine, and I think all the ignorant, childish whining should cease while we wait for the community team to either respond, or choose not to. I wouldn't be surprised if they choose not to hold any further events, the way this awful community has responded to something that was, at its core, meant to be FUN and bring people together.

I find it highly suspect that you agree the contest was held poorly yet you defend their right to hold contests poorly. You say the items should be prestigious, yet the items were not earned fairly. The contest rules emphasized quite clearly that entries that won were to be the best entries and that there were many ways in which a post could be disqualified. They did not follow their own rules for selection and many people, even winners, were extremely confused by this. If they plan to hold contests in the future for, as you say, prestigious items they should do so fairly or not at all.

We were very content to wait on a response. You are the one who decided to slander others in your defensiveness.

There has been no sign of contentment waiting for a response, only the slander of busy people for not giving a response and no acceptance of the fact that there might be a reason behind the lack of communication at this point in time. And I did say I agreed with the point that some decisions were made poorly, but I acknowledged the other side of the table as well (something I did not see an abundance of while reading this thread).

Furthermore, all who entered the contest agreed with the act of entering that the community team would decide the winners based on overall creativity and execution based on the alloted GUIDELINES (not rules). They have the final say. They owe you nothing, not even a response. And truly, I hope they never reply to the unhappy crowd here.

Yes, yes, we know you won. You don't need to flaunt your defensiveness so heartily. Your reply is the equivalence of me saying, "And I hope they never give out the prizes to you unworthy lot!" And I thought I was salty.

(For others reading this I feel the need to clarify, some of the entries were truly stunning and my real opinion is I hope you receive what you've won soon. Good luck.)

And I don't much care about the necklace, for what it's worth. It'll sit in my inventory, perpetually taking up space (just like a fairly large portion of the event gear to date), and I will likely not be able to place it into storage. It gives me no advantage, I'll end up wearing it once or twice, then it will just sit there and remind me of poor inventory management (a much more important issue than some people unhappy about a community event that holds little weight).

They could give my win to someone else and my viewpoint would be the same; the people complaining here are fools.

Also, hypocrisy is real. I'm done with this thread, I hope you lot are as well until they make a decision on how to handle this or they proceed to handle future events.

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Originally Posted by BrandoH

They could give my win to someone else and my viewpoint would be the same; the people complaining here are fools.

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Originally Posted by BrandoH

Also, hypocrisy is real.

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I'm glad you realized quickly that you are also one of the ones choosing to spend your time here complaining, no better or worse than the rest of us.

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Originally Posted by Relentless

WINNER 34. Raina Asuna ― Diabolos

Raina's actual picture:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1465562


http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...960f449fd9.jpg


The winning picture created by Elysian Eclair on Excalibur:
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hpho...34436482_n.jpg


https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hpho...34436482_n.jpg

Did they give credit to the wrong person?

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Was reading through the thread and noticed this, so thought I would quote it to bring it to the top. On the EU haiku thread there was similar confusion with an entry and a moderator said they would look into it.

Wrong picture or wrong name mods?

I wonder when they'll be handing out the awards...

Has anyone received their necklace yet? I know a winner who has not gotten anything yet.

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Originally Posted by Cupcakehyperion

Has anyone received their necklace yet? I know a winner who has not gotten anything yet.

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I don't believe any of the prizes have gone out; I know a few of the winners and they haven't received anything. Maybe SE is debating how to handle some of the comments in this thread but there are other issues such as what AmalahRose posted above; possible wrong image/wrong name getting listed in the NA contest and something about the EU contest as well. It's likely that they need to get all that sorted out before they send out the prizes.

Seeing as there was a lot of errors made, they should just give everyone who entered the prize and in the future make sure any other events are done correctly.

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Originally Posted by Siren

Seeing as there was a lot of errors made, they should just give everyone who entered the prize and in the future make sure any other events are done correctly.

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There weren't "a lot" of errors made. Just 1 instance where they chose someone's 2nd entry over their first and another instance where they listed the wrong name as the owner of a winning picture. The rest was solely opinion based...

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Originally Posted by Cupcakehyperion

Has anyone received their necklace yet? I know a winner who has not gotten anything yet.

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We apologize for the delay in updating you on the status of the Ahriman Necklace deliveries. To give you a more specific time frame, the delivery is scheduled to occur after the release of patch 2.1 in December. We'll be sure to notify you as soon as the moogles have sent them all out!

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Originally Posted by Relentless

WINNER 34. Raina Asuna ― Diabolos

Raina's actual picture:
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The winning picture created by Elysian Eclair on Excalibur:
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Did they give credit to the wrong person?

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Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. We did locate the error in the final winners file and it was confirmed that Elysian Eclair on Excalibur is the correct winner. We have made the correction in the Doppelganger Screenshot Contest Winners thread to reflect that. We sincerely apologize for this inaccuracy.

Thank you for the update!

The winners were announced? Where? :o

Sorry for double post..can't edit it but found the link ^^;

when do we get our prizes? been a month now, just curious.

Dracul, scroll up

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

We apologize for the delay in updating you on the status of the Ahriman Necklace deliveries. To give you a more specific time frame, the delivery is scheduled to occur after the release of patch 2.1 in December. We'll be sure to notify you as soon as the moogles have sent them all out!

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*dusts off thread*

So, question. Would transferring to a different server before the distribution disqualify you? I was planning on jumping servers shortly after 2.1, but I want to know if I'd lose the necklace by doing that (I know it's just decorative, but it's cute enough to wait for). Sorry if someone posted this earlier on, I didn't see anything, so I thought I'd ask.

How long after the release of the patch exactly?