Hair contest winners

[LilimoLimomo]

However the template is male, does anyone know if all the hairs will be unisex??

Big important thing to know is that at present CBU3 has made no promises that any of these will be implemented in the actual game. As it says at the bottom of the Lodestone post:

* If an entry is deemed to be excellent, Square Enix may decide to implement it into the game in the future. Note that there is no guarantee that winning entries will be implemented into the game.
* Entries that did not win may also be selected for implementation in the future.
* If an entry is to be implemented, the Development team may make adjustments to the design or features of the hairstyle.

Source: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...686c364efc07a2

[wereotter]

Every single hairstyle added since the 6.0 patch has worked on Viera immediately. They said they fixed the problem that was preventing them from adding new styles to Viera when they made male Viera and there's no reason to think this was a lie. It's been 2 years since a new hairstyle didn't function on Viera from the get-go.

Guess still the bias from so many existing styles not added to the races, but you make a fair point here. I can't think of any new styles added I couldn't immediately use.

[Fawkes]

Big important thing to know is that at present CBU3 has made no promises that any of these will be implemented in the actual game. As it says at the bottom of the Lodestone post:

Source: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...686c364efc07a2

I assume that's just some extra legalese to cover in case they happen to not use them. It also says they can use runners up that didn't win, which they did a lot last time. Pretty much every hairstyle they've added since 2015 was a winner or runner up from that contest.

[Boblawblah]

Big important thing to know is that at present CBU3 has made no promises that any of these will be implemented in the actual game. As it says at the bottom of the Lodestone post:


Source: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...686c364efc07a2

That's dumb.

If you're going to have a contest with winners then choose the 4 that you WANT to put in the game and do it. Have a list of honorable mentions after the four. At least then we can look forward to specific hairstyles. As it is, it's just "Hey, look at the cool art our Japanese players made" ,which is just straight up insulting.

[Rikizza]

Big important thing to know is that at present CBU3 has made no promises that any of these will be implemented in the actual game. As it says at the bottom of the Lodestone post:


Source: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...686c364efc07a2

Oh… thats annoying.
On the other hand, in the last hairstyle contest all the hairs got added so lets hope that happens again lord knows we need more options

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

That's dumb.

If you're going to have a contest with winners then choose the 4 that you WANT to put in the game and do it. Have a list of honorable mentions after the four. At least then we can look forward to specific hairstyles. As it is, it's just "Hey, look at the cool art our Japanese players made" ,which is just straight up insulting.

No need to go full conspiracy. Its just legalese to protect them in case any don't get added. The last contest saw every winner and even some runners-up get added.

[Cidel]

As it is, it's just "Hey, look at the cool art our Japanese players made" ,which is just straight up insulting.

I'm looking at places like reddit, and I'm seeing a lot of people who unsurprisingly didn't follow the guideline rules for the contest entries. Tsumdere summed-it up well enough:

From looking at Western submissions, it seems that very few people followed the submission rules with the template. It's kinda crappy that they allowed non-template submissions last time and not this time, but they wrote it in the rules so... *shrug*.

So this time I'm not surprised that majority of the winning entries are from Japanese players.

[Boblawblah]

What's more likely:

A) 90% of non-Japanese players (in the ENTIRE WORLD) just happen to not follow the directions and miraculously 80% the winners were Japanese because of this

Or

B) The devs are biased towards Japanese player's ideas/culture and consciously or sub-consciously picked Japanese winners.

Unless Japanese players make up 80% of the playerbase, then no, it's not cool, and it is insulting, and not conspiratorial.

Also, most of the winning styles are just so..safe.

[Cidel]

What's more likely:

A) 90% of non-Japanese players (in the ENTIRE WORLD) just happen to not follow the directions and miraculously 80% the winners were Japanese because of this

Or

B) The devs are biased towards Japanese player's ideas/culture and consciously or sub-consciously picked Japanese winners.

Unless Japanese players make up 80% of the playerbase, then no, it's not cool, and it is insulting, and not conspiratorial.

Also, most of the winning styles are just so..safe.

You probably just answered yourself with your impromptu choice C). Time and time again, these devs have demonstrated that they aren't going to stray from their comfort zone, in all things gameplay and content. Easy-to-incorporate, less-complex things to fit under a hat is going to appeal to them more.


...And I dunno about 90%, but just skimming down people sharing their entries on reddit; a lot actually did just happen to not follow directions, which is a shame, because some of them probably would have ended up as winners/runners-up.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

What's more likely:

A) 90% of non-Japanese players (in the ENTIRE WORLD) just happen to not follow the directions and miraculously 80% the winners were Japanese because of this

Or

B) The devs are biased towards Japanese player's ideas/culture and consciously or sub-consciously picked Japanese winners.

Unless Japanese players make up 80% of the playerbase, then no, it's not cool, and it is insulting, and not conspiratorial.

Also, most of the winning styles are just so..safe.

Considering every single winner used the template, and almost every entry I saw posted on reddit (that wasn't picked) did not, I'm going to go with they simply followed the directions.