MELEE GEAR CONTEST WINNERS

[GrumbleBeard]

I would have killed for the delinquent set. There are very few "monk/pugilist" style gear in the game outside of AF gear and older pvp gear. I guess I can't blame SE for taking the easy way out with a painted on, skin tight suit and generic tank arms and legs, but I am really disappointed at the loss of what I felt was a really great set.

[Sigma-Astra]

This is what I was noticing. I get it's a JP game, but there are plenty of amazing entries from non-JP designers. Even the majority of the runner ups tend to be JP artists, for all of the art contests. If you don't intend on ever picking a winner from a different region, just restrict entries to JP players and be done with it. It's worth noting this current housing contest is region-separated (not sure if the other one was), otherwise I'm sure we'd be seeing a preponderance of this too.

Agreed. It's one thing for it to happen a couple of times and then we can chalk it up as a mere coincidence, but this is every time there's a gear design contest. At this point, the bias is clear as rain to see. They even break their own rules during the finalist stage by picking two designs; in each of the melee and range category that were made by the same JP person when that spot could have been open towards an EU or NA designer.

Like, at this point in time, I would not fault or blame participants from NA or EU if they just swore off in ever entering these things because it's all becoming so ingenious from the company each and every time towards our two regions. We get it. You're heavily bias towards your own country. Fine. Then, at least just restrict entries towards JP players only or start making region based contests where we get a single grand prize winner from JP...AND from EU and NA.

If we had a grand prize winner from each region for the gear design contests like these and many others that weren't region based, it would seem a whole lot more fair towards the rest of the player base that SE seems to ignore on a daily basis.

They were heavily bias towards the JP players in XI too if I recall as well.