Hair contest winners

[Cidel]

What's more likely:

A) 90% of non-Japanese players (in the ENTIRE WORLD) just happen to not follow the directions and miraculously 80% the winners were Japanese because of this

Or

B) The devs are biased towards Japanese player's ideas/culture and consciously or sub-consciously picked Japanese winners.

Unless Japanese players make up 80% of the playerbase, then no, it's not cool, and it is insulting, and not conspiratorial.

Also, most of the winning styles are just so..safe.

You probably just answered yourself with your impromptu choice C). Time and time again, these devs have demonstrated that they aren't going to stray from their comfort zone, in all things gameplay and content. Easy-to-incorporate, less-complex things to fit under a hat is going to appeal to them more.


...And I dunno about 90%, but just skimming down people sharing their entries on reddit; a lot actually did just happen to not follow directions, which is a shame, because some of them probably would have ended up as winners/runners-up.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

What's more likely:

A) 90% of non-Japanese players (in the ENTIRE WORLD) just happen to not follow the directions and miraculously 80% the winners were Japanese because of this

Or

B) The devs are biased towards Japanese player's ideas/culture and consciously or sub-consciously picked Japanese winners.

Unless Japanese players make up 80% of the playerbase, then no, it's not cool, and it is insulting, and not conspiratorial.

Also, most of the winning styles are just so..safe.

Considering every single winner used the template, and almost every entry I saw posted on reddit (that wasn't picked) did not, I'm going to go with they simply followed the directions.

[Boblawblah]

Considering every single winner used the template, and almost every entry I saw posted on reddit (that wasn't picked) did not, I'm going to go with they simply followed the directions.

Right, reddit evidence. Okay. I'll stop here then.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Right, reddit evidence. Okay. I'll stop here then.

Well, I can't really use forum evidence since people aren't posting their losing entries here now can I?


Based on the number of publicly posted losing entries, yes, the majority of western entries that lost did not use the required template.



No other data exists. Also, I like how you ignored the "all winning entries used the template" part. Its not like JP entries who didn't use it won. We also have no data on JP entries who didn't win because they didn't use the template, because they don't use reddit like the western audience does.

[Allegor]

Considering every single winner used the template, and almost every entry I saw posted on reddit (that wasn't picked) did not, I'm going to go with they simply followed the directions.

I'll go a step forward and say they increased the number of winners from 30 to 40 only because they had to scavange for a handful of non-JP players that followed the guidelines so not all winners are JP. That said, it still feels ...idk, disingenuous? to essentially disqualify two whole regions for their own bad wording.

[OgruMogru]

What's more likely:

A) 90% of non-Japanese players (in the ENTIRE WORLD) just happen to not follow the directions and miraculously 80% the winners were Japanese because of this

Considering the playerbase, this really doesn't seem like much of a stretch of the imagination. At all.

[Monokhrom]

I really liked the winners! Especially these:

[Merrigan]

The hairstyles are really nice ! Love the fact that there aren't too many "long hair with AGAIN a little cute bow in it". I love shorter hair.

The only thing that bugs me a little is the fact that I enjoy it cause I play a female. For male, the choice seems to be a little more problematic : all the winners scream "K-pop" or "girly".

[Gemina]

There are some promising options in there. Including some nice updos, which the game is sorely lacking right now. I hope they get implemented.

Congratulations to the winners!