About Tank Design Winner

[LadyVal]

Kinda why I don't try these competition bs,

I never bothered because, before I even played this game, someone told me about the "design a mount" competition SE had in FF11 and how the community voted a European mount as the winner, and the devs said "Oh we really like that mount but we're going to implement the highest-voted Japanese entrant's mount instead. Sorry!"

[Grimgrum]

I never bothered because, before I even played this game, someone told me about the "design a mount" competition SE had in FF11 and how the community voted a European mount as the winner, and the devs said "Oh we really like that mount but we're going to implement the highest-voted Japanese entrant's mount instead. Sorry!"

This 'someone' was probably goofing around with you, FF11's been stuck with chocobo-only mounts for almost the entirety of the game's lifespan.

The sole submit-a-design contest FF11 ever held I believe, was for a shield in 2013 based on a simple template. The grand prize winner was submitted by someone named Adam F., who was probably not Japanese (it gets muddled, all the entrants' names were transliterated in English as were the JP character names). Selection was purely by the judge(s), so I can only imagine the voting system we saw a couple years later was just to see if it'd work this time around.