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

[Nyxs]

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

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

When I saw that one I immediately fell in love with it. I hope they make it eventually.

[Zebraoracle]

Wow I just looked at the sage and reaper winners and... the finalists for sage almost all look so much better than the winners, at least IMO.

[PoyoYoyo]

I'm sad mine didn't win... q_q

[Deveryn]

Wow I just looked at the sage and reaper winners and... the finalists for sage almost all look so much better than the winners, at least IMO.

That's how it goes with these kinds of contests. You only know so much about what the judges are looking for.

Some of those finalists look cooler, but also more complex to implement. Some details might get lost in translation.

[Zebraoracle]

That's how it goes with these kinds of contests. You only know so much about what the judges are looking for.

Some of those finalists look cooler, but also more complex to implement. Some details might get lost in translation.

Oh definitely.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Congratulations to the winners! I liked many of the runner up submissions too.

My favorite sage weapon is https://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/34...015.1640233302

Cool concept and a nice change from lasers and syringes.

My favorite reaper weapon is https://i.ibb.co/VYGC0nz/2d09e666ca4...82f33aea-7.jpg

The symbology is perfect for reapers. The crescent moon is curved like a scythe blade and the Moon goes from light to dark, dark to light.

I hope we see a whole gear set similar to this next expansion.

[Bunnycake]

Hence this line. Without looking at every single entry (which would be impossible anyway), you can only base it on anecdotes. Thus, when out of 25 reddit posts of people's submissions I saw, only 5 of them stood even remotely serious chance at winning due to the majority being either joke weapons or badly done visually or were just far too out of scope for the game due to fantastical elements, It's merely my anecdote that the JP submissions would be far and large more consistent to have a shot at winning to achieve such a wide sweep of winning spots.

But hey, if someone wants to insinuate JP bias here, I'll just point to the fact this is far from the first contest they've ever ran, and plenty of other contests have had NA/EU take predominant amount of winning spots before. If they did have JP bias as far as contests, it would be evident across all of them, not just in this one.



Yeah, that one in particular got a large chuckle out of me. Would make a great Gold Saucer weapon if they ever do anymore joke weapons down the line.

Honestly, this would make me want to go back to Open Fishing.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Honestly, this would make me want to go back to Open Fishing.

The fact this weapon is purely just for the Austin Powers reference

[RyuDragnier]

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

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

I can see why. That's relic/raid level weapon design there, they can't let themselves be outclassed.

[Bunnycake]

The fact this weapon is purely just for the Austin Powers reference

That too LOL