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About the "Project custom Tailored-Stylist pattern Ticket"-
my attention was drawn to this item,
the ticket-winner,
since if you read the rules;
-Link to Pattern-Ticket Rules thread-

It's basically saying that the winner get to select an item for gaiaonline to edit/remake,
however-
they don't get to see the item before it's released,
so basically; they just get to say "I want another version of this item."
-more or less,

*the winner's also allowed only 50 words to describe the change they want,
and possibly an image


I'd also like to bring up the winter-date,
where winners get to chat with an NPC-
that is; a member of gaiaonline,
pretends to be an NPC,
and chats with the winners-
in other words,
it's nothing but some exchanging of words,
it's not even an item win, the winners don't even win an NPC-item to side with their avatar as a date,
the only work needed from gaiaonline is basically someone to sit down and chat with the winner/winners.

-outrageous i say!

can't help but feel that the users are being cheated though,

a text-only win isn't worth much in my opinion,

and the other win is basically just the staff asking for inspiration since they've got none themselves?

The users aren't being cheated. Most users are never going to get their dream items made, recolored or whatever without the aid of a ticket. Users should always read the faq for tickets before buying and if it doesn't appeal to them then just not buy it.

There are plenty of users back during save our shops who donated millions for a profile comment. So I'm sure npc lovers will spend gold or cash for a mint ticket and it will be worth it to them

The save our shops was to keep the shops up though, wasn't it?
And gold is gold, Cash is actual money-
which is why i think it's more of an issue

and users won't get their dream items made,
as much as they just get to tell the staff what item they want remade,
they won't even get to see what is being made before it's out-

But a lot of users even at that time used cash to make gold. I only mentioned it to show that prize value is subjective to each user. At that time I thought donating a million gold for a profile comment was absurb, but to those users it had value. You think a text based rp date for cash is just as absurb (and I agree), but for some users npc interaction is better than items or other prizes.

As for the new ticket the user still gets what they want and what they paid for outlined in the faq so I don't see the problem. I'd love a remake of cherubic for males without a ticket it likely won't happen. So if I get a ticket ask for that, that's what I'm getting. No point in complaining before these items come out and someone asks for male cherubic and instead gets another girl version.

It is still incredibly vague for a winner to just pick an item and spell out some words for a random artist of gaiaonline to pick inspiration from to make a "new item"-
Basically, the winner can only guess what happens to their win, and doesn't get to see what's being made, nor can they give any directions to make the item more like what they envisioned-