Winners of the Hideout Competition

Nice to see SoL as a winner, one of the best hideouts ever.

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xardas149 wrote:

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SoLPoe wrote:

Just let you now that the "Hideout Showcase news series" was the old videoblog like thing when they show a few hideouts randomly time to time like hideouts of the week and stuff like this the "Hideout Showcase forum" is not the "https://hideoutshowcase.com/" becouse this is a 3rd party website and do nothing with the offical thing , the offical one is https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-forum/hideouts.

Imagine the salvating argument is "but but but it doesnt count as released before because 3 party website!!!111self" when we talk about ggg and poe by extention. Like this game literally runs on third party websites only xd

For the record, I think the rule was always dumb. You build a HO and since tracking of dates is a thing, it is rather obvious to clarify how the creator truly was if realeased in the normal channels (youtube, hideoutshowcase, reddit). If you never put that into a contest, there is little to say against putting it into the race. But that is not the rule as written.

Point is, they never clarified shit and just how the word is written, Auretech is literally a breach of rules. You can interpret it your way, but factual that is nowhere written and the way it is phrased might have prevented user from summiting which literally invalidates the legitimaisation of a contest.

The fact that GGG is just ignoring very basic requests and is clearly abusing the contest as a marketing tool (that tana lab ho is insulting as a winner in how low of an effort is put there, just showcased to sell the tileset...) doesnt help to ease people in letting things slide.

The rules indeed not writen well , its doesn't narrow down the possibilities what can go in the contest, and seems like a same design with same elements just different variation like Max34 , or a remake like mine what has been changed by 40% from the old and remaked in the current league can go in , me winning 2 places not fair at all i didn't undrestand either why ggg do that , and how and why they chose what they chose as winners , the game do uses 3d party websites and programs , but i dont think that ggg chek them all out just to make sure that every single hideouts is 100% something new , if you look at the comp list there where many hideouts that re-used designs from old hideouts , i think they only chek the offical site only , on the otherhand i don't think that these hideouts judged by the same people like last year i have no clue how they do this but if you remeber last year the top 3 got an explanation why they been chosen this year not so that's kinda interesting , and i repaet my self again i think the rules need to be changed too 1 hideout/ account-Ip and a way that make sure that the hideout 100% something new and made in the current league , like idk make a separted league for the contest where you can build in creativ mod what could make more people get in to the comp so all decorations could be used without limit and we leave the hideout what we made there , and mtx free and mtx hideouts would be judged separately , or a community vote system , but i think that could be easly manipulated.

The whole game is a business since tencet got involed things changed , they push out mtx like candy and everything become a marketing platfrom even this contest too , if you look back the old comps alot more poeple where up for it and more people cared about it , its enough to chek back the hideout comp 2 years ago and now , or if we look at the game also alot change has been done , i personaly don't play the game activly anymore , i lost intrest in it after 3.0 and the last league that i tried for 1 week was 3.7 , the changes that they did after they got help from BotherLaz turn the game into this zoomer thing that i dont like at all , than there is the harvest fiesco the mass changes and nerf's that kill builds and skill every league just to keep up the rota , STD is dead now , leagues die after 2-3 weeks so ye im no longer really interest in it that much , i build hideouts time to time , casualy play if a league looks good for a few days and thats it , i still interest in the lore and thats why only thing that im looking forword in PoE2.

I also thought that Kalguuran Hall be in top 5 with Leshor's Teasla Tower and Synopsis Lotus Garden , lasty year i was shocked by Minas Morgul not got in to top3... everyone has a different top list , depends on individual taste and bias , but ye i think there where many hideouts that should be in the top20 too.

Just in case anyone is wondering...

The contest before this I wrote to GGG to find out more about when the hideout can be made.

I asked "There is a section in the rules that says "Your hideout must be created after the release of the Heist expansion.". Does that mean I can't use my own saved design that I've never shared with the public? Does that mean I can't update that design? Do I need to start completely from scratch?"

Their response "An appropriate team member has let us know that the intent here is that entrants have the same amount of time to work on their submissions; starting from scratch would be considered to be fair."

So, it seems to say, if you have a previous idea, if you build it from scratch then you can enter it. Or does this mean no previous ideas... actually.. I'm still a bit confused....

I still would LOVE to know what goes into the choosing of the top three, I want to know what about them made them get picked so I can think of these things for my next hideout.

If you didn't win anything in this competition, don't be sad! Iron Hideout Competition #6 still has 3 weeks left. We're also accepting submissions made to official competition as long as they fit the current competition theme, "Village". You are also allowed to modify your hideouts here to make them fit. Here is the competition thread:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3180067

These are seriously mind blowing

Gz !