FFXIV: ARR One Year Anniversary Video Contest (EU) - Discussion Thread

Please feel free to use this thread to discuss the One Year Anniversary Video Contest and practice submitting your entries.

The full contest details and rules can be found here.

When you are ready to make your entry, please do so by posting in the entry thread.

Couldnt clarify these from the rules thread:
Is a narration voice-over allowed / or any voices at all?
If a team entrant already has the choker can he/she nominate their alternative character to recieve it, even if their alt is not in the free company?
Oh and another - if the team consists of both EU and NA players does it matter which forum the entry is posted in? (or should it be both?)

so i live in England so im EU - but my char is on a NA server (leviathan) , so which region do i enter to ? (keep in mind any people who aid in making the video will be NA)

This is my first real try at this type of video that I entered into the contest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99vqJNemrCk

It's impossible to summarise 1 year in 2 minutes but was fun to try. :D

hey, just wondering if a montage of screenshots with voiceover would be okay?

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Originally Posted by Slab

hey, just wondering if a montage of screenshots with voiceover would be okay?

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Check out the other entries from EU, NA and JP. A lot of people have used screenshots.

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Originally Posted by Shori

if the team consists of both EU and NA players does it matter which forum the entry is posted in? (or should it be both?)

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This is till yet to be answered in either EU or NA forums so can I please get a rep's response :)

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Originally Posted by Shori

This is till yet to be answered in either EU or NA forums so can I please get a rep's response :)

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Could be wrong, but I'd assume that if your team is from a NA server, it's NA, if it's an EU server then EU.

Hey Gildrein!

Dunno if there's some kinder PM system on the forum, had no luck finding it, but I'd like to request the URL be changed on my submission, on the second page of the contest thread, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksVB6fx2Ggo to the following-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZMZW319KD8

Apoligies, I had not realised I was unable to edit my own posts to fix this error, but as you may see on the original link I've taken as many steps as possible from Youtube's end to redirect attention to the contest entry version.

Thanks and have a great day!

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Originally Posted by Lucem

Could be wrong, but I'd assume that if your team is from a NA server, it's NA, if it's an EU server then EU.

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but we're a mixture of both :/ EU worlds were full at the time I created my characters and i've too many friends on the NA server to recreate or transfer.
as no rep could answer my question I decided to post in both and hope for the best

Well it seems I missed the deadline. Not much I can do but just show what I would have liked to have entered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxGnY_pPu_E

Samiby Leumas
Cactuar (UK based)

I worked on my video for a week and I just realized I entered mine in NA and I'm EU :( But when I click on my character it says Excalibur NA so im so confused

It was never explicitly stated that this competition would be judged based on Server worlds, only that if the service account was registered under PAL, that you must enter the EU region contest.

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The Contest is only open to existing holders of an active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account (“Service Account”) from 30 July 2014 to 12 August 2014 who are resident in a PAL Territory Country* (“Contestants”).

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I am quite frustrated with the fact that this contest appears to have been judged based on server worlds when it was clearly stated to be open to PAL service accounts. How is this fair to any PAL service holders who play on a US server?

Furthermore, clarification was requested by multiple users from both discussion threads during the competition period with no response from officials. I am very disappointed with the community team as my group worked very hard on our entry only to find it was likely disqualified due to the above miscommunications.

I'm also displeased with the fact that nothing was clarified. I don't see how its fair that those videos will now be tossed aside when people worked extra hard on them all for not.

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Originally Posted by logicallysynced

I am quite frustrated with the fact that this contest appears to have been judged based on server worlds when it was clearly stated to be open to PAL service accounts. How is this fair to any PAL service holders who play on a US server?

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Where does it say it was judged by world? I assumed they sorted the winners into worlds so that it was easier to see who won (and incase of people having the same name from different worlds?) I'm listed as a winner for EU but play on a NA server (Midgardsormr)

I do need clarification STILL on what happens to my entry. I am listed as a winner for EU but my FC are made up of NA members. They were not named in the NA winners thread so how do I know if theyve won or not? I've already got the choker from another contest so not realy interested in itunless it goes to an alt character from my account?

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FFXIV: ARR One Year Anniversary Video Contest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tns8FFIcj8

Light Rai (Ragnarok)

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The name isn't in the winners list, I was one of the first 5 and I worked hard for it.

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Originally Posted by dark0past

The name isn't in the winners list, I was one of the first 5 and I worked hard for it.

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Read the rules. your music is not in the game.

Does anyone know how long it usually takes to get your ingame items if you've won?

Hey hey, where are the items? :D I dunno how long it usually takes for them to come though but it's been a while now!

As the two above, just wondering when the items will be mailed out.