is it coincidence that the majority of winning design contest entrants are japanese?

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

yes, but that playerbase is eclipsed by both the north american and european playerbase. i don't think there is a conspiracy, i just think it's a funny coincidence. don't you?

Considering the contest is a visual one, the sizes of each region are irrelevant. NA could be 1000x larger than JP but it'd be irrelevant if they had 0 artists.

That being said, a browse of reddit when everyone was posting their designs they submitted 2 months back gives quite a bit of insight into why the majority of winners were JP - lots of the designs I saw NA/EU posters submitting were either not great visually, joke weapons (like the SGE weapon that was just a bunch of sharks with laser beams attached to their heads, or the one that was literally just a shoebill on a stick with its beak acting as the scythe blade) or had fantastical elements that would make them extremely hard to adapt to in-universe designs/lore. If the JP submissions were more consistent on in-universe design and more serious entries on average, it'd be no surprise they'd win the majority of spots.

There's no conspiracy or coincidence at play, just differences in culture that I would believe led to many more realistic to implement designs that stood a chance in the running on the JP side than the NA/EU one on average.

[Zebraoracle]

Considering the contest is a visual one, the sizes of each region are irrelevant. NA could be 1000x larger than JP but it'd be irrelevant if they had 0 artists.

That being said, a browse of reddit when everyone was posting their designs they submitted 2 months back gives quite a bit of insight into why the majority of winners were JP - lots of the designs I saw NA/EU posters submitting were either not great visually, joke weapons (like the SGE weapon that was just a bunch of sharks with laser beams attached to their heads, or the one that was literally just a shoebill on a stick with its beak acting as the scythe blade) or had fantastical elements that would make them extremely hard to adapt to in-universe designs/lore. If the JP submissions were more consistent on in-universe design and more serious entries on average, it'd be no surprise they'd win the majority of spots.

There's no conspiracy or coincidence at play, just differences in culture that I would believe led to many more realistic to implement designs that stood a chance in the running on the JP side than the NA/EU one on average.

Okay I'm not big on joke weapons but sharks with lasers on their heads sounds amazing. I want that lol