Voting for the new Hairstyles?

[ElHeggunte]

The problem is though, that the Dev team said voting would begin on the 28th. And here we are 2 days later with nothing to vote on.

That's assuming the dates on the EU/DE/FR pages are accurate though. Neither the NA or JP pages mention the voting period at all. There's actually quite a bit different between the JP/NA and the EU/DE/FR versions of the page, like they used two different templates and just changed the language accordingly. The EU has some pretty strange laws when it comes to contests and online content so the differences might be attributed to that.

The fact that the JP page doesn't give any mention of the voting period is a big red flag to me that the EU pages might simply be wrong.

[Jacien]

The problem is though, that the Dev team said voting would begin on the 28th. And here we are 2 days later with nothing to vote on.

Then they messed up.

Simple.

[Grimmel]

Seriously? A vote? It's just going to be a popularity contest then to see who can buy off the most votes if that's the case.

This isn't twitter where people can make multiple accounts to vote for themselves and offer free games to voters, so I doubt people will be able to buy votes for this.

That race to the finish twitter contest was a disaster. People who didn't even play FFXIV joined it..

[TexasLion]

Yeah i kinda was upset because reading that entire contest posts gave me a huge brain fart. ?_?

[Fevelle]

Seriously? A vote? It's just going to be a popularity contest then to see who can buy off the most votes if that's the case.

Girl, your Au Ra is probably the most beautiful character I've seen since I joined this forum/game. Really. The color combination, eyes, scales, everything, it looks AWESOME.

[FrechdachsMerle]

any new infos 'bout the entries?
i wanna vote :3

[Crimen]

Still waiting on an update to be able to vote as well!

[Eul]

Girl, your Au Ra is probably the most beautiful character I've seen since I joined this forum/game. Really. The color combination, eyes, scales, everything, it looks AWESOME.

Her Au Ra color looks like the pic on "Delicious Au Ra" thread IMO :| (No offense)

[cyborgmermaid]

Girl, your Au Ra is probably the most beautiful character I've seen since I joined this forum/game. Really. The color combination, eyes, scales, everything, it looks AWESOME.

Oh gosh. F-FemRoe-senpai's noticing me

Her Au Ra color looks like the pic on "Delicious Au Ra" thread IMO :| (No offense)

Terribly delicious.

[Malindachan]

It could be a number of things - maybe there were a lot more entries than anticipated, or after the backlash about the stolen entries they're trying to be more thorough before publishing them.

Also, most contests they've done in the past didn't have an audience poll, so they could have run into some unexpected errors while getting that portion figured out. I've managed similar contests before, and one of the biggest challenges I've faced is finding a good poll system that can display more than 10 entries (among other things - such as displaying all the images in a good size, and tracking the number of votes per IP address to make sure nobody is cheating).

Winners of the transition art contest were announced today, so hopefully that means they'll be shifting more focus to the hairstyle contest.