Hairstyle voting begins!

[Blackbird1]

so far it's looking like entries 21 16 and 8 are the top three wonder who will win though i hope for 16 of course this is just my guess based on the number of likes i dunno it can still get flipped around

[Rina_Leonhart]

Can't vote, dont know why but i would vote female 21

Edit. And noo, no bangs no vote ^^ Maybe the 1

I don't have enough no bangs options to show off my circlets though dang it xD

[Whiteroom]

Voted 21 and 21. For the females it was the one most like my favorite from the original samples, and #21 males just because i think it would be hilarious on my lala.

[Matchakuchen]

Idk... it seems like the guys got better long haired curly hairstyles than the females even tho there were a lot curly entries made for girls too :/
overall it's just disappointing what got chosen, especially after I saw all the rejected styles on this forum and reddit...

[Colorful]

Why do people have such a distaste for bangs here? Maybe they should have a bangs and no bangs option for every hair style, I'd love that.

[Savvy]

I wish people would keep in mind when they talk about how disappointed they are with who got chosen and how all of the finalist entries suck, that the people who drew those are probably reading this, and being made to feel pretty damn shitty about it. Not once, but over and over and over and over and over.

[Xieveral]

A good chunk of entries are styles that are similar to what we already have but aren't available to all races, there's no need for styles like these to be in the contest. Au Ra males have a style similar to male #9, and lalafell females have twinbuns, and Roegadyn males have the topknot, SE needs to work on getting those implemented for the other races.

In addition we have multiple styles of Aymeric-inspired hair for males and multiple sidetails for females.

All of these are styles that have been requested countless times and it shouldn't take a contest for them to finally implement. Why did they not just heed the community's requests for these to begin with? Why skew the entries in favor of a certain style?

[Interstella]

I hope that people, when voting, take into account that these are just drawings, and as such may be lovelier on paper than in the actual game due to the artists skill.

Personally I like the short hairstyles, minimal clipping issues and practical for when you're gutting your enemies ^^

[Gyson]

I wish people would keep in mind when they talk about how disappointed they are with who got chosen and how all of the finalist entries suck, that the people who drew those are probably reading this, and being made to feel pretty damn shitty about it. Not once, but over and over and over and over and over.

The problem is not with the hairstyles. Like art, they're subjective, and a style I hate someone else may love. That doesn't make it universally good or bad - there's always going to be a mix of opinions. And artists learn to develop a thick skin over that quickly (or don't make it very far as artists).

The problem is with how the finalists were chosen. I'm fine with the developers eliminating entries that are technically not feasible, or didn't follow the rules of the competition. I'm not fine with some mystery person(s) picking their favorite batch of hairstyles (which, again, like art is subjective!) and then asking the community to vote on a winner *from that batch* while pretending like this was a community choice.

All the entries which passed a sanity check should have been posted as finalists, and then the community allowed to vote, resulting in half of the most liked styles passing on to the next round. And then the community votes on those, and the top 50% passes on to the next round, etc, etc until a single style remains.

Instead, right now many feel like they're having to pick the hairstyle they hate the least. And the bulk of the votes will go to a handful of hairstyles because people don't see the point in using their one vote on (example) a style that has 200 votes when there are several sitting near 2000. The understandable thinking there is "I want to vote for style H, but style X, Y, and Z are the only ones that have a chance of winning so I better pick my favorite out of those three..". Thus, those few styles that broke into the lead early (for whatever reason) were bound to continue gaining more and more momentum for that reason alone.

All around it was just a stupid way to handle the competition.

[MamiTomoe]

I wish people would keep in mind when they talk about how disappointed they are with who got chosen and how all of the finalist entries suck, that the people who drew those are probably reading this, and being made to feel pretty damn shitty about it. Not once, but over and over and over and over and over.

Welcome to the internet and reality. If a bunch of electronic words hurt your feelings that they affect your day, you in for a real shock when you walk out the door and start dealing with human beings face to face.