Thread: Anyone else get shafted on the recruitment video contest?

I'm curious if this happened to any other FC's, and I'd like to see what the community thinks about our FC's situation with this contest.

First off, Our FC is Hexed of the Gilgamesh server. This is our website http://hexed-ffxiv.shivtr.com/.

We submitted a video for the recent video recruitment contest. You can watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l4Hn2bgwpQ&hd=1.

The rules of the contest state that there will be up to 10 winners per server. We were the first FC to submit a video on our server, followed by 3 other FC's, so 4 total FC's. Regardless if they liked our video or not, because there wasn't more than 10 entries, shouldn't we still win by default? Well that's what we thought. Here is a link to the entry thread for our server: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...28Gilgamesh%29

So they just announced the winners of the contest, and we come to find out that we didn't win. This kind of makes us upset, not because of the prize, because quite honestly the prize isn't that great. But rather for the effort and work put into making the video, and to not get recognized, that's kind of messed up.

I'm going to quote the first line in the forum post announcing the winners. "After much deliberation and frequent attempts to try and join free companies that they were totally sold on from watching the promotion videos, the FFXIV Development and Operation Teams have selected the winning entries!" You can find this in this thread here http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...test!-%28NA%29. This leads me to believe that SE went around and tried to join each FC that posted a video. And that's how they chose their winners.

So the argument is, is this fair? Tell me where in the rules that it states this as a requirement for the video contest? Here is a thread to the rules http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/124834. If you've watched our video, you will see we followed every rule of the contest. I play this game every night, and I've never been contacted by anyone from SE in this matter. And even when I'm not online, we have 8 officers and a website that anyone can apply to. So did they try hard enough to join us? Should we be punished because I have a RL and can't be on every waking moment?

So I'd like to hear what you guys think about this matter. Did the same thing happen to your FC? Was SE fair? Do you think Hexed should be a winner?

Just because you entered a video does not mean they're going to give you a prize. Up to ten does not mean they are going to select ten winners per server. They didn't like your video, too bad.

Originally Posted by Yidoshi

This leads me to believe that SE went around and tried to join each FC that posted a video. And that's how they chose their winners.

If they'd selected the winners by doing that, my FC would have never won.

Originally Posted by Yidoshi

I'm going to quote the first line in the forum post announcing the winners. "After much deliberation and frequent attempts to try and join free companies that they were totally sold on from watching the promotion videos, the FFXIV Development and Operation Teams have selected the winning entries!" You can find this in this thread here http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...test!-%28NA%29. This leads me to believe that SE went around and tried to join each FC that posted a video. And that's how they chose their winners.

I think you're taking that line WAY too literally. My FC won the contest and I'm one of many leaders in the FC. Should something like this have taken place, I'm pretty sure I would've heard from some of the other leaders of my FC. And anyway, that'd be a highly unprofessional thing for SE to do so I doubt they'd do that.

I watched your video and tbh, I don't know why it didn't win. In my mind, it fulfilled all the criteria and showed the activities that prospective players can participate in. It's better than some of the other entries that won IMO. :/

Originally Posted by Lilyanna

How does being able to join a FC decide a winner of a VIDEO contest? That makes no sense at all. Plus, how long did they try? Were they online for NA PEAK hours or just whenever they felt like getting online?

I understand it is a recruitment video, but come on.... makes no sense whatsoever ... PLUS, you wouldn't get suspicious of a lvl 1, that claims to be a new player, asking to join your FC? ... I would ... because most players don't even think about that until later levels or they get random invites anyway.

It's not just any video it's a recruitment video. Common sense should of said oh maybe they will try to get recruited. Plus its just a damn choker. The same as every other contest rewards.

Great video by the way.