Hideout Competition Runners-Up

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Magikarper wrote:

I think it is important to say that a large chunk of the community who cares about the competition and Hideouts is simply frustrated as the size of one's pockets played a major role in getting to the podium. It is not fair to other competitors who were promised that MTX free and MTX inclusive hideouts would be rated differently (and even be represented in a mixture of winners). The problem with this competition is about fairness between competitors and the obvious favoring of MTX users by Path of Exile and its judges. Nothing of that (the fairness) is seen in the hideout winners section sadly. There are fair ways of holding this competition and unfair ones, sadly, this one was the latter. It just leaves a bad taste of such a good game otherwise. If you want to make it fair for everyone, let competitors use any decorations and hideouts available in the game for free for the period of the competition. As someone else pointed out, you could just host a competition server/league with access only to one's hideouts.

PS! I am really looking forward to a reply from GGG here as this is a recurring theme in the comments that you have received. How will you go forward with tackling unfairness in your future competitions? Maybe do not just state that the competition will be fair in the future if as a business you cannot uphold this claim? I understand and I bet others do also, that competitions like these drive MTX sales for decorations and tilesets. But please, just do not lie to your players, it's that easy.