Hairstyle Contest winners announced!

[AdamFyi]

As soon as I read the "only your last like counts" I knew people would mess it up and tried to warn them

Then again, this post kinda points out as to why there was some confusion.

[ExKage]

Then again, this post kinda points out as to why there was some confusion.

I think this is really the only part that is confusing but I think it demonstrates a failure of reading comprehension. I can see why it might be confusing but the Scarf is only for that one bullet point. As the rest was later added, the original part of "* “Likes!” will only be counted for the last entry you vote on." seemed fairly standalone to me and was in reference to "How to Vote" and not about the sweepstakes additional information/clarification.

[Galaktica]

sigh I am not the least bit surprised at the winners. If you know anything about the playerbase, even without looking at the votes, it's obvious which entries did and did not have an actual chance of winning.

Personally, I wanted this entry for females to win, but whatever. Once again, "cutesy" triumphs. I hate democracy.

[Shori]

Personally, I wanted this entry for females to win, but whatever. Once again, "cutesy" triumphs. I hate democracy.

That was the one I wanted too! I strayed away from the dark skin I had before HW before Au Ra has literaly NO hairstyles that suited (the long dreads have an AWFUL texture). This would have been what I needed!

[Syhrwyb]

sigh I am not the least bit surprised at the winners. If you know anything about the playerbase, even without looking at the votes, it's obvious which entries did and did not have an actual chance of winning.

Personally, I wanted this entry for females to win, but whatever. Once again, "cutesy" triumphs. I hate democracy.

That's the one I wanted to win as well. They should give it to us femroes anyway.

[xLucia]

Congrats to the winners!

However, I wanted one of the female runner ups to win, they were so much better and unique compared to the side ponytail (No offence to the person that made it :P) I personally hate side ponytails generally because I think they look ugly from the back (and that will usually be the perspective from which you look at ur character)

I can only hope they'll do more contests like this and use a poll and/or better formulated rules >.< And also instead of putting 1 hairstyle per post, make a collage of all of them in the SAME post. So there's no page hopping to see all of them if they ever decide to use this voting system again.

[Apocrypher]

After taking the time to examine each hairstyle before "voting", my votes went to the pompadour & the "sausage braid" because both entries presented unique & interesting style choices. Other entries just didn't sit right with me for one reason or the other.

That being said, I'm pulling my broom out & calling shenanigans on this whole fiasco - not to take away from those people that eventually "won", but this became a repeat of the 1876/1888/2000 American Presidential elections all over again in comparison...

To the actual Square Enix employees that bother reading this thread: in the future, effort needs to be put forth into future "voting" events that relies on a secured, one-time only polling system rather than forum-likes.

There are sites out there that have accomplished such a system for things like this: FFN for example offers content creators the ability to create polls on their author-pages allowing other users to submit opinions via a system that uses either radial buttons or check-boxes that can be set-up to either determine a single-choice option or multiple-choice (limit determined at author's discretion). Additionally, the system even allows for the author to determine if it's an open or closed voting (closed voting requires a user account & similarly is a one-time vote method) as well as the option for it to be a blind poll (results not visible until the voting period is over). (This is ignoring online survey sites like e-Rewards that only provide links to survey opportunites to third-party research firms rather than conducting the research themselves)

[Nadirah]

Well would you look at that. All the winners and runners-up were from Japanese participants. Region favoritism much, 日本人たち?

One of the runners up was French.

Names were just given in JP.

[Xau]

Well would you look at that. All the winners and runners-up were from Japanese participants. Region favoritism much, 日本人たち?

what all the hairstiles had names on japanese did not mean what all where maded by japanese, but what their original name whas translated to japanese as well as other languages