Hairstyle Contest winners announced!

[Lusavari]

I didn't even vote for the Pompadour... but I think it deserve's to be implemented regardless of its vote status. All Hail the Pompadour. I want to be a Japanese Anime Villain/Jerk with a heart of gold.

[Whiteroom]

I didn't even vote for the Pompadour... but I think it deserve's to be implemented regardless of its vote status. All Hail the Pompadour. I want to be a Japanese Anime Villain/Jerk with a heart of gold.

Lol, I voted for that one just so I could use it on my lala.

[Naunet]

Congrats to the winners.

.... won't stop me from wishing female #18 had won. @_@ It was actually different from the stuff we have on offer. The side ponytail is gonna translate weird in game, too, because any time there is hair that's supposed to be resting on a shoulder, it ends up being stiff as a board and hovering a few inches above the shoulder. Looks so strange. What's more, the flower will probably not be dyeable, so it's going to be really limiting in terms of color combination. Blaaah.

[Gyson]

For the record, I was hugely disappointed in the selection of finalists male hairstyles, with many of them looking like they could be contenders in the female category.

In the end we were stuck voting on the favorites of the individual or team that selected these finalists, and not our personal preferences. That's like asking someone to come up with a short list of several movies that they love, and then picking one of the movies from their list that you wouldn't abhor seeing. Yay? Better hope they're not a huge fan of (insert your least favorite genre here). Clearly the selection committee has wildly different tastes than me (and going by the comments in several threads, many others) when it comes to hair style preferences.

The problem is not with the hairstyles. Like art, they're subjective, and a style I hate someone else may love. That doesn't make it universally good or bad - there's always going to be a mix of opinions. And artists learn to develop a thick skin over that quickly (or don't make it very far as artists).

The problem is with how the finalists were chosen. I'm fine with the developers eliminating entries that are technically not feasible, or didn't follow the rules of the competition. I'm not fine with some mystery person(s) picking their favorite batch of hairstyles (which, again, like art is subjective!) and then asking the community to vote on a winner *from that batch* while pretending like this was a community choice.

All the entries which passed a sanity check should have been posted as finalists, and then the community allowed to vote, resulting in half of the most liked styles passing on to the next round. And then the community votes on those, and the top 50% passes on to the next round, etc, etc until a single style remains.

Instead, right now many feel like they're had to pick the hairstyle they hate the least. And the bulk of the votes will go to a handful of hairstyles because people don't see the point in using their one vote on (example) a style that has 200 votes when there were several sitting near 2000. The understandable thinking there is "I want to vote for style H, but style X, Y, and Z are the only ones that have a chance of winning so I better pick my favorite out of those three..". Thus, those few styles that broke into the lead early (for whatever reason) were bound to continue gaining more and more momentum for that reason alone.

All around it was just a stupid way to handle the competition.

[AskaRay]

Man I go to sleep/pass out from exhaustion for TEN HOURS and...wait, that's a long time huh. Anyway

Well forgive me if I don't feel like congratulating winners of a failed voting system.

Is it their fault? No of course not. And I'm not blaming them.

But as long as the winner of this flawed system is questionable at best, no one is getting my congrats

If you think that's rude then that's fair, but that's my stance

This is exactly it. It's extremely rude. Regardless of how the contest was handled (which is to say, still poorly), the fact of the matter is other people still voted for those styles.
You say it's not their fault, but you are essentially "blaming" them for winning via a flawed system. The only time this should happen is if there were clear ways to cheat (for example, voting without an account which would allow multiple votes from the same person. Since the forums only allow one account/service account, I sincerely doubt the winners have 2000 sock puppet accounts to inflate their own winnings here...). Don't like the hairstyles? Fine. I'm also probably not going to use them.

So yes you and everyone else acting like you are being extremely rude. Please stop.

[Averax]

Congrats to the winners.

.... won't stop me from wishing female #18 had won. @_@ It was actually different from the stuff we have on offer. The side ponytail is gonna translate weird in game, too, because any time there is hair that's supposed to be resting on a shoulder, it ends up being stiff as a board and hovering a few inches above the shoulder. Looks so strange. What's more, the flower will probably not be dyeable, so it's going to be really limiting in terms of color combination. Blaaah.

I don't think it'll be that big of an issue. While i was an au ra, i used hair number 2 (or maybe 3, it was the new pigtails one they got), and sometimes when i'd jump around the left pony would go around my shoulder and get stuck on my front, it never clipped with anything and it wasn't static either.

As for the flower. They said they're going to take creative liberties where they see fit. The flower may not even make it in game.

[Xuyi]

I don't think it'll be that big of an issue. While i was an au ra, i used hair number 2 (or maybe 3, it was the new pigtails one they got), and sometimes when i'd jump around the left pony would go around my shoulder and get stuck on my front, it never clipped with anything and it wasn't static either.

As for the flower. They said they're going to take creative liberties where they see fit. The flower may not even make it in game.

Unfortunately, I feel like the flower is responsible for a large portion of the votes it received. Maybe it's just me, but the winning hairstyle would feel extremely plain without it. On the other hand, if they do include the accessory, then I still wouldn't like it very much because I wouldn't be able to color it (much like that long hair style for females that has a white hairband stuck to it). I didn't vote for this hairstyle, but I sincerely hope that the creative minds at SE can make it look good in-game.

[Ashelia_Ferron]

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Like I said, that's my stance.. I'm not going to congratulate someone whom I think didn't deserve to win due to faulty voting. Couldn't care less how they feel about it either. If you don't like my "rudeness" then feel free to ignore me, I'm not obligated to congratulate anyone though so telling me to stop is ridiculous.

[AskaRay]

Like I said, that's my stance.. I'm not going to congratulate someone whom I think didn't deserve to win due to faulty voting. Couldn't care less how they feel about it either. If you don't like my "rudeness" then feel free to ignore me, I'm not obligated to congratulate anyone though so telling me to stop is ridiculous.

Well, that is true. Being rude isn't against the TOS, but neither is telling someone to stop acting a certain way in a thread that I personally started.

[Averax]

Unfortunately, I feel like the flower is responsible for a large portion of the votes it received. Maybe it's just me, but the winning hairstyle would feel extremely plain without it. On the other hand, if they do include the accessory, then I still wouldn't like it very much because I wouldn't be able to color it (much like that long hair style for females that has a white hairband stuck to it). I didn't vote for this hairstyle, but I sincerely hope that the creative minds at SE can make it look good in-game.

I'm going to be honest and say that i don't think people voted for the flower.

I voted for it because it was simple, nice looking, and it doesn't resemble something we already have.

In fact, i don't think i've seen anyone say anything akin to "Oh my goodness that flower is the greatest thing since sliced bread"