Design a Weapon Contest - Let the Community Choose!

Offhand focus item of course, besides, as Gaile already said, that one + one other were selected purely because the dev team got an interesting idea about combining them.

someone should have entered a firey and icy draggon bows - that'd be cool.

I don't see any daggers

It looks like an offhand....right?Either that or a wand, i can see it, kinda

Yes, it is a focus, but what the hell is it supposed to look like? A combination between a dragon(?) and an ear of corn?

Ah the good old Rose Wand. PSO had so many pretty yet useless items.

But back to the topic, I don't see how the community could vote, for a start all of the entries would have to be publicily avaiable and, would you honestly look through thousands of pictures?

Not to mention you'd have to take into account the time it would take for them to be avaiable, then the increased time for voting. Personally i'd rather Anet do it and use the "extra" time to get the items in game.

Yea I'm feeling some dissapointment too.

That would've been the best looking warrior shield since the exalted
aegis. A-Net's graphical engine wouldn't be able to support it. They'd
have to dumb-down the graphical detail a lot to make that shield pc-friendly.

I love the detail to pieces...Now where can we find the sword that matches that?

Waste of time. You need ample time for people to vote, and then Anet have to count them all (god knows how long it would take 'them' to do that - no offense). Better off having a faster contest so more time can be spent implementing them into the game... err, as someone already mentioned.

It's funny how no one made daggers - and it's sort of sad that one of those spears looks like a sun-spear...

/me wants to slap a Charr with an ear of corn.

People need to consider that selecting the winners is probably based on a lot more than just 'Oooh that one is pretty I like it'. When it comes to implementing these designs into the game, things like the level of details able to be rendered and displayed or the feasability of the item in terms of it's interaction with the character model (i.e. that dream-catcher focus in the honorable mentions).

Besides, the community can't come to a reasonable decision about anything. So no, go away.

I think it is best that a-net choose... even though I think my entries are better than some of the finals...

btw I 'did' make and submit some daggers.

Isnt this a dagger:
http://www.guildwars.com/images/cont...ben_dagger.jpg

or at least i hope so that would be amazin

But that flower thing...wtf

A lot of the entries are amazing. However:

I'd like to know what the rationale is behind picking the piece that looks like something a 6-year-old drew with colored pencils and/or crayons for "Honorable Mention"

I think it's weak from both a design perspective and from a skill perspective (the person didn't even go to the effort to shade and/or color forms completely, use a straight-edge for lines, etc) - Anyone that has taken a 1301 design class can tell you this piece doesn't belong with the rest.

Whatever though, it's A-net's contest they can do whatever they want. I just think it's an insult to everyone that submitted a quality entry and took this contest seriously.

Meh... the vast majority of the winners this time are absolutely pathetic.

While I certainly don't have the artistic capabilities of quite a few of the people inputting stuff.... I can guarantee that I could definitely come up with far more creative and interesting ideas than most of that nonsense.

But then it does tend to be the artistic limitations that prevent me bothering.... that and my general pessimism as regards certain statistical probabilities.


Then again... on the artistic front.... that crayon thing was truly pathetic both in design and medium. I know five-year-olds who can do better than that. The pegasus thing before it was equally pathetic.


On the whole.... a failure. A total failure.

I really should have at least tried participating... v_v;;

actually, I think this is the reason I don't participate in the first place.

If you're so good, then next time put your money where your mouth is. Remember it's not about the quality of the art, it's the idea. Remember, the winning entry (1st place) was basically just a doodle that said make it look like this, with a neat pattern around the outside that glows and rotates. Till you actually put in an entry and prove that your ideas are better than everyone else, you're just spouting hot air, driving the signal to noise ratio of this thread even lower than it already is.

You win a box a crayons for using the word pathetic excessively. Now go draw something Uber Godly 1337!!!11

Awww, I missed the contest!

Personally, I've always wanted the ability to squirt ink when I'm pissed. Note that I have no idea how to make this into a feasible GW object, save for the knit squid hat. Squid hat!!!

Eh, honestly its best that a.net choose the winners. After all, there are limitations to what the engine can handle and it be pretty stupid to let the players pick the winners if the item was too complex to even be put in the game.

And yes I must say this "IDEA" is mind blowing!!! -.- ...