freezinghazard: So it's fair play that a winner used a beyond good and evil screenshot? And you seriously agree with the paint winners? I'm missing something here or you guys are being blinded and defending a brand that does not care about you.
da187jimmbones: Could the Beyond Good and Evil selection have been human error, instead of an intentional disregard for their customers? Does the inclusion of that one selection really lead you to conclude that the gog owners "[do] not care about you"? That seems like a really big jump in logic to me.
If the winners were randomly selected, then in order to satisfy you, they would have had to kick out some of the people who won randomly and replace them with the people who spent a lot of time working on submissions. That seems like corruption to me and morally wrong. What is morally right is for gog to follow the rules of the contest by selecting random winners.
Furthermore, where do you draw the line when it comes to whether someone spent enough time on an entry? How do YOU know how much time other people spent on their entries? Maybe some people made like 10 entries that took them 3 hours to make all 10, but then that person decided only to use one. It's entirely possible that the people who just used microsoft paint to make their final entry spent much, much more time on the project than their final entry shows. You are just failing to see all these points.
The bottom line here is that you went far above and beyond the submission requirements and now you expect something extra for your effort. Well sorry, but you voluntarily spent far longer on this than you needed to, and the rules are the rules. The rules say nothing about automatically winning by spending a long time preparing the entries.
Read my above post, they don't reply to emails.
