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

[Iscah]

Maybe Japanese people are just culturally more organised and more likely to get around to submitting their entry by the due date?

[Meowdyj]

I'm just sad this one didn't win.

https://i.ibb.co/VYGC0nz/2d09e666ca4...82f33aea-7.jpg

[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.

[XiRon]

we really need more cute or fun reaper weapons cuz the only one that isnt stupid edgy is the padjal scythe which is all just a pure white untextured asset than anything tbh

I will go for the sage cutlery when they get added 6.5 years from now (seriously whyyyyy does this all take so long just dump these in the gold saucer for 100k mgp or smth) but it was the only one that looked good to me ntbr

[MikkoAkure]

we really need more cute or fun reaper weapons cuz the only one that isnt stupid edgy is the padjal scythe which is all just a pure white untextured asset than anything tbh

There’s a few if you know where to look. I use the Crimson Lotus scythe from Ala Mhigo/Kugane/Rhalger’s Reach dungeon for my reaper glam that has a far-eastern look and bright red coral?/driftwood? with beads. The fae dungeon from ShB drops a scythe with feather motif and a crystal, and the mine dungeon drops a nice-looking silver and blue one, neither of which are dripping in goth.

The bluespirit ShB crafted set scythe is pretty nice too with a glowing blue blade.

[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

[Azuri]

Sigh. Another massively overengineered piece of crap RPR weapon. And it's again going to be so big it inflates like a balloon when you unsheath it. The job literally has one good weapon model with padjali.

[MistakeNot]

Maybe Japanese people are just culturally more organised and more likely to get around to submitting their entry by the due date?

Possibly.
It is also likely that the tastes of the Japanese players coincide to a signficant extent with the tastes of the (probably mostly Japanese) people who decide the winners.

I haven't checked if it really is true that the majority the winners are Japanese, but assuming they are, it is probably not a coincidence. There is likely some bias involved, but probably not deliberately so.

[Oizen]

Japanese MMO favors Japanese players, say it aint so.


Next you'll tell me there's a reason all the live letters are held at 4am in the morning for the west coast, and not even given a translator most of the time

[Raoabolic]

Japanese MMO favors Japanese players, say it aint so.


Next you'll tell me there's a reason all the live letters are held at 4am in the morning for the west coast, and not even given a translator most of the time

To be fair, we get a "localized" version of the live letter 2-3 weeks after the LL was aired!