Doppelganger Screenshot Contest (NA) - Discussion Thread

[MortonTaru]

Secondly, they took people's second submissions (such as with you, and this is not your fault, as it wasn't you who picked your picture. You deserved to win, but they explicitly told us not to this.) Lastly, while I had this problem, I also want to distance my own affiliation with it to make the point; There are obvious submissions with less composition, less value of the elements, and overall just looked WORSE but with the same general concept, who won. On the other hand, there was a lot of this that went on, but the originals actually looked worse. It was a rare case, but the chronological value of the entries was obviously not taken into consideration, especially when a winning entry that looked worse but had the same exact concepts as another entry is still able to win. This is a huge punch in the face to people who took time and creativity into their entries, and then someone could've copied it, and won.

[MortonTaru]

For future entries, I suggest making the entries private and making an OPTIONAL entry thread so that people may share their pictures if they choose. This would decrease the amount of copy cats and competition within a particular subject.

I really love the game and I enjoyed this contest, but its really disheartening with how a lot of the decision making was done, and I really hope that Square Enix can continue to offer us amazing contests and rewards in the future, but for it to be enjoyable some serious changes really need to be made. I want to reiterate that this isn't the plea of a sore loser, but the plea of someone who wants to enjoy the community services that Square Enix gives us.

[PlanckZero]

Looking through the entries there were some that made me laugh at the ingenuity. There was one with a guy on his hands and knees and a round shield on their back like an adamantoise, or one where the person realized that their coat and hat had strikingly similar features to an apkallu.

My entry was on page 11, where you had q few winners. It wasn't much but I figured there wouldn't be many people going for the look and it seemed cute.


When I looked back I saw this on the same page, the use of the fairy was a great touch and I knew this one was a winner.


Then you have this winner on the same page...


Pre-made NPC armor sets are the antithesis of some of the outstanding entries and seriously don't belong in the same contest.

[Dark-Seraphim]

as the event is over with, time to move this to the 'past event' section don't you think?

[Dargonis]

well it looks like they deleted my post on the general forums, guess they didnt like the fact that I was rubbing their nose in their mess, honestly it would be nice to hear why they picked the submissions they did when its pretty obvious the community would have chosen differently.

[Goufunaki]

as the event is over with, time to move this to the 'past event' section don't you think?

Not really, since they only just announced the winners yesterday. No need to rush.

[Goufunaki]

well it looks like they deleted my post on the general forums, guess they didnt like the fact that I was rubbing their nose in their mess, honestly it would be nice to hear why they picked the submissions they did when its pretty obvious the community would have chosen differently.

I'm pretty sure your thread was deleted because there's already a discussion topic about it here. No need to start a new topic to complain when you've already been doing that here.

[Kallera]

Congratulations to the winners, as well as all who participated, and a big thank you to SE for providing these contests for the community.

[LullaBell]

Actually Winteredsnow's entry came first on page 8. I would have had a hard time deciding between the two personally as they were both amongst my favourites.

Congrats to the winners. I really enjoyed seeing everyones submissions.

[LullaBell]

I preferred your entry to the one that won, personally. Chronologically yours came first as well, I believe. But that's purely my subjective opinion.

Darn it - quotation fail. See above.