Starlight Celebration Contest Winners Question

[UltimateAoe2]

It's more so disrespectful for the submitter to do this, really.

[hallena]

This is disgusting

[Magnus_Voss]

I don't even see this in the original contest submissions, unless I missed it somehow? Are you sure this is a winner and not just a SE shopped image to promote the contest?

[OlivinePeridot]

I don't even see this in the original contest submissions, unless I missed it somehow? Are you sure this is a winner and not just a SE shopped image to promote the contest?

Square Enix wouldn't photoshop an image like this to promote a screenshot contest when they have the capability to make screenshots like this without photo editing tools in-house.

[Magnus_Voss]

Square Enix wouldn't photoshop an image like this to promote a screenshot contest when they have the capability to make screenshots like this without photo editing tools in-house.

What? Umm, they do this kind of stuff all the time.

[OlivinePeridot]

What? Umm, they do this kind of stuff all the time.

The backdrop screenshot was taken by another player who posted it online as part of a collection of screenshots of Codex's vigil. The Lalafell and the fireworks weren't part of the original screenshot. I doubt that Square Enix would put the effort into googling screenshots of their own game so they can Photoshop additional things into it when they could just take their own screenshot to use.

Edit:

Greetings,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

We have decided to remove this entry from the list of winners out of respect for the players in the screenshot that had gathered to mourn the passing of their friend and fellow player.

Thank you!

[Vejjiegirl]

This is disgusting

[Goufunaki]

To the winner, may they choke on their new earrings.

[Shougun]

The entry cheated, but I'm leery of what or what does not look like willful intention to use a sigil or cheat. Until known, people.. wouldn't it be best not to burn them at the stake?

The back drop photo is nice looking, if I knew no better and thought I could photoshop I might have used it too. Clearly something should be done about posting it as a winning entry when it didn't follow the rules, but the creators intent is not known.... However, it seems everyone would be happy to hang them anyways.

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To be clear, when you enter a contest I believe you should read the rules, so I do believe something about that should be done (disqualified immediately) - but as everyone here is well aware "reading instructions" is a common failure on the average person's part.

[Titor]

They have not even announced it yet they may be preliminary uploading it and may have selected a few they did not intend or are missing a few.
Also the album looks large enough that it might be EU and US combined. Or possibly all of them combined. So just wait before getting all whiteknighting over things.