Hair contest: petitioning

[DoctorSecksy]

I will respond to each reply made to the best of my abilities. But first, I'd like to explain myself a little bit.

It was never my intention to personally include you (the reader) into my own opinions or my metaphorical box. I know that I may be part of the minority who are upset. Hell, I may be the *only* one upset, but after reading so many other concerned thoughts and feelings from others, I only wished to put feelers out there, seeking out likeminded individuals who want to join me in my box. I am sorry if I have offended you or lead you to believe I was speaking for you personally. I only speak for myself and those I have the permission to do so with. I also apologize if my language was misleading. I'll take it into consideration when responding.

[KleeneOnigiri]

I don't like how they showed hairstyles in the livestream and now NONE of them are in the finals. Of course, throw the ones out that violate the rules, but really, not even 1 of them? Why?

[DoctorSecksy]

heynowjose: I also love this game and community. If stating my opinion (albeit negative) about the way the Dev team handled a situation reflects my lack of appreciation and love, then I am not sure what the point forum based feedback is. I don't consider it "entitlement" if I am unhappy with the way something was portrayed. Especially if that something is supposed to be geared toward the community. I am part of the community, and I am only expressing my thoughts.

Ladon: And maybe you should! A lot of the contests focus heavily on artistic merit. If you feel that there should be more contests that don't require art, then yes, petition. Speak your mind. Let the team know. If you don't say anything at all, then how will the proper channels know that there is an upset happening? If this was a sarcastic response, then I am not sure how to address this.

[DoctorSecksy]

Savvy: I do, in fact, have respect for the dev team. I respect their choices. I don't agree with their choices. I don't agree in the way in which things were handled. And I am not saying my opinion is everyone's opinion. As I stated, I am only trying to see if anyone else agrees with me so that, if given enough support on the matter, we can vocalize efficiently to the dev team so that they can know how we (the in supporters of my thoughts) feel. I respect they can make their own judgements with that information. And I agree that it was a nice idea for them to give us this opportunity. I don't think what opportunity we got was what was necessarily advertised. If they want us to influence the game and in game styles, that's fantastic and generous. But with anything, they are providing a service at the end of the day, and as consumers, we should give feedback on their methods, good or bad, regardless of our differing stances.

[DoctorSecksy]

Black_Rose: Someone already responded to this, but I feel that I should say that, in my opinion, there wasn't a lack of creativity or originality, but more that a lot of the styles are very similar to what we have in game or similar to another finalist choice. Or even... similar if not the same as another FF character.

Mykll: Well, I respect your opinion about my thread. I don't agree, but it's valid.

OfTheWhitewind: I guess, but really... we are in the voting process for what we want to see implemented (as the community does with a lot of these contests). Isn't that democracy?

(Apologizes for multiple posts. It seems I can only post 1000 characters at a time, which makes this cumbersome)

[DoctorSecksy]

lynn: Again, I am sorry if my word choices offended you. I feel they intended to give us a mile. I also feel they shorted us on that mile in the end. I am aware that not everyone can be pleased all the time, which is why I make a preliminary thread to find those who aren't please so that was can speak our mind in a productive fashion instead of staying silent. Even if nothing happens of this thread and it gets eaten by time, that is OK. I feel that I made a valiant effort to express myself, and I hope that others will be comfortable to speak their minds here as well.

Elim: Of course! I am not begrudging you for liking the selection. I apologize if I made it seem like I was personally putting you into my box. I know that you and many others have no qualms with the way this is progressing. That is most excellent! However, this thread was to, again, see if anyone shared *my* opinions.

[DoctorSecksy]

StriderShinryu: Yes, some of the styles were ripped straight from a previous FF game, or "inspired" by a pre-existing game or anime. I feel they could have chosen some finalists with varying styles and concepts. A lot of the selection share very similar qualities and aspects which make it hard for me, as a voter, to chose "Which straight hair with bangs and or side pony tail is better than the other straight hairs with bangs and or side pony tails?"

Sterre: No thread is complete without the adorable cat meme.

Ranzan: There seems to be a discrepancy between the rules and what was chosen. I am not sure what the official guidelines of selection were, but I'd be interested in knowing. Even if this thread dies a horrible inactive death, I'd like clarification. I think that'd do just fine.

[Assirra]

I don't like how they showed hairstyles in the livestream and now NONE of them are in the finals. Of course, throw the ones out that violate the rules, but really, not even 1 of them? Why?

Well people were already angry at those for being "stolen" from somewhere else.
Maybe they didn't want even more backlash about those?

[DoctorSecksy]

Eye_Gore: I don't think it matters one way or another if I submitted or didn't. I did, in actuality, but my feelings wouldn't have changed if I didn't. I am not saying that my personal submission should have been picked, because maybe it wasn't what people were looking for. I can live with this. I am more upset with the selection that was picked and the way in which the contest played out. The contest rules stated particular guidelines that some of the finalist pieces didn't follow. The quantity of finalists is also less than what was previous mentioned (if you can find anything proving me wrong on this, please! Let me know) and the "who votes for what" is different. The contest page made it seem like Japanese forums would vote for Japanese finalists, EU for EU and NA for NA. Instead, it feels like an unbalanced amount of all three into one big voting pool.

Seriously, why only 1K characters? This is the last reply I had written out, so at least there is that.

[Rina_Leonhart]

My only real complaint is the fact that they have replicas of the same hairstyles to vote for in both the male and female poles. They could have added in one or two more for variety's sake to both poles had they not chose to have two regency styles for guys and the two side tails with a braid in the same spot for females.

Well... and the fact that some hairstyles were against the rules as stated.


On the side, thank you for the contest SE! Do more in the future! ^_-