Weapon Design Contest: Any News?

[juicybug]

I found this on twitter: "Thank you all for your amazing entries!

The judging process is taking longer than expected, so we will instead be announcing winners in late April. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience."

https://twitter.com/FF_XIV_EN/status...63834494390272

Guess we'll have to wait a bit longer.

Awe bummer- thank you for this though! I wonder if we're free to post entries then? It's not like anyone can enter with a copied design.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Awe bummer- thank you for this though! I wonder if we're free to post entries then? It's not like anyone can enter with a copied design.

For safety's sake, it's probably best to wait until the announcements are made.

[juicybug]

For safety's sake, it's probably best to wait until the announcements are made.

I wonder why they're not doing a public/player voting?

[Eien713]

I wonder why they're not doing a public/player voting?

To be honest, I found it rather messy when they did that for the hairstyle contest. I also like that finalists get feedback on their designs this way.

[Kolsykol]

I wonder why they're not doing a public/player voting?

Polls can be manipulated, some fighting games do this too and they have issue where artists with big followers will just get their followers to mass vote.
When you let the public vote it just becomes unfair and abused tbh I prefer they do it this way.

[juicybug]

Polls can be manipulated, some fighting games do this too and they have issue where artists with big followers will just get their followers to mass vote.
When you let the public vote it just becomes unfair and abused tbh I prefer they do it this way.

Oh! Very true. I hadn't considered that.
sorry to seem impatient! I just wanna get over the negative anxiety in my gut.

[StriderShinryu]

I wonder why they're not doing a public/player voting?

Another thing to consider outside of the possibility of vote manipulation is that for something as potentially complex as weapon design, the developers need to decide if they will actually be able to make the weapon work well and look well in the game. If it were purely down to fan voting, a design could be selected that would just be impossible to properly implement or could only be implemented in a way that ultimately disappoints all of the people who voted for it (and ticks off those who didn't even more).