Fact is that rules where not clear. There was no phrase within the rules where was written 'you cant make more than one entry' and i made a couple of them. My posts have been erased somehow... Really disappointing but I think it was a lottery, just make the ones with less than 8 words and with the word cyberpunk in it disappear and then random pick. If it was good enough or just not bad it would be the winner.

Edit: What Im reying to say is that the competition was not fixed but I think there wasnt any competition at all.

The wording was clear enough: Describe the game. It seems to me that many participants were trying hard to come up with the perfect sales pitch line instead of describing the game - me including! A description, going by dictionary definition of the word, would mean to me something like this:

Experience artificial immanence in a dystopian cybernetic subculture

I second your wish for an official statement. They could at least tell us why they were using the word describe and provide us with an example to see what it means to them.

If someone is a rules-lawyer they would find that it's a violation. I would hold that it isn't if you don't use the word Cyberpunk as a word, which you can't, because in that case you would have to have used 9 words instead of 8 and you had been out. ;-)

The GOG team of all people must know that there would be many participants whose native language isn't English. I have seen that others were using their native language and to me there is no reason to suspect that GOG ruled them out because of that. Without official word that's mere speculation of course ...

I like your video, great job!

This is a great 8-word description of the competition!

And yet...we ended up with a winning entry that, like you said, is NOT a description. So... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I agree with you. I thought they were clear enough: "describe" is pretty clear. But then again...someone at GOG selected a NON-DESCRIPTION as the winning entry, invalidating all the already established "clearness" imo.

I also fell for the trap of thinking "sales pitch lines". And that's why I went with something more in line with the "descriptive" thing, thinking that going with anything different would be disqualifying. Apparently I was wrong.

Lol, I totally focused on the "creativity" part. Since I remember that previous GOG-contests were mostly won by poems and similar stuff, I made a haiku. I was sure that all contestants who contributed a simple 8-word line would be disqualified.

I wonder how many side account were made just to participate in this. I guess GOG wanted a larger number of accounts to show a high number.

That was my thought. Metrics generally point which way a company decision, and some higher ups get so focused on the numbers for their projects, that they find ways to bring up those numbers in ways that justify their position.

As a community we should demand transparency and the answers of who won and what the winning phrase was.

They announced the winning account name when they locked the thread.

I don't understand why no one is pissed about it.

Seemed like a number of people were, considering other threads. Continuing to raise hell over it even though it was closed, the winner likely already contacted and the prize mailed to them seems a bit like screaming at a wall in hopes that eventually it will respond.

The next step is to then find out why there are low standards in these companies, and how it came to be. The community will have contacts that facilitate this.

Criticism has a small chance to trigger improvement, me thinks.