Starlight Celebration Contest Winners Question

[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!