Doppelganger Screenshot Contest (NA) - Discussion Thread

[Selkie]

An honorable mention for this charming fellow as well:

[Sephirah]

I understand you're unhappy with the results Selkie, but I really think you should just let this go. You're only adding to your own frustration at this point. There were many great entries, I'm sure it couldn't have been easy to only pick 100 when you have 7 times that many. And before you go saying I'm biased as well because I won, let me just say that if I hadn't, I would not be trying to flame the development staff for making what is apparently such an egregious mistake.

The only things the posts like yours and other people upset about this is doing is increasing the likely hood that events like this will never happen again.

Congrats again to the winners, and to everyone else I did really enjoy seeing all the submissions, there are some really amazing ones.

[Selkie]

This is the entry in question.

As stated prior, I would wish they not hold contests in the future if they will choose to run them carelessly. I agree with you. Square-Enix, I humbly advise you refrain from future contests if they will be anything like this one. Please stick to in-game contests that will be far less subjective in nature.

I am merely responding to people who respond to me, like you, yourself, are doing now. You need to let me go man. I'm not worth it. As long as you and others respond to my arguments, I will be polite enough to respond back.

[Vaen]

paraphrased: because I didn't have fun no one should

That's rude of you to insist that SE should stop having contests just because you didn't like how this turned out. If you didn't like it, then don't participate in future contests. Find other things in life to enjoy! It's ridiculous to demand that they ruin the fun for everyone else just because of your opinion.

[Vaen]

I would've enjoyed this event a lot even if I had lost. Even if I had lost and I thought that my entry was better than the winning ones, I still had fun looking at everyone's screenshots and making mine. Sure, if I lost I would've been disappointed. It's fine to believe in your own entry and think that it should've won. But the judge's decisions are out of your hands and you can't prove that they didn't have their reasons for their choices or that they weren't "careful." Even if you argue about who posted an idea first or what their subject/theme was, that doesn't prove anything definitive.

I participated in a screenshot contest event in Aion once. I LOVED my entry and I REALLY wanted to win. But I didn't, and I thought some of the winners had way worse shots than me. What did I do after I was disappointed by that outcome?