So now contest prizes can be bought?

[Nezerius]

You can't see all the 100s of subscribes in your time of gameplay. The whole "I've never seen it so that means it never happened" mentality is not a good one to have. I've personally seen the scarf a few times.

Of course I can't see all the subscribers in my time playing this game.

However, I've been playing on Balmung (the most populated server by a large margin) since around 2.1. I'd find it hard to believe that no one on Balmung managed to win any of the contests over the past years.