FetalDave wrote:
If you honestly think SE "randomly" chose the winning numbers, you should go lay down in the street. They never said once they were going to randomly pick the numbers. They also have to make sure the economy gets enough/doesn't lose too much money during this whole thing. The 5 numbers they picked were picked because it generated the return they were looking for.
I had serious doubts too that the winning numbers would be randomly generated when this event started. I may have missed it, but I never read anywhere anything about whether the winning numbers would be chosen randomly or not.
Then yesterday I saw this:
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FINAL FANTASY XI 6th Anniversary Mog Bonanza
Price: 1000 gil.
Mog Bonanza marbles available for purchase from May 16 till May 28.
The winning numbers will be announced on June 30.
Prizes available for collection from July 2 till July 31.
* The winning number will be randomly determined in a strictly supervised process.
On the main FFXI site. The wiki posted it yesterday (the 30th). The original announcement (posted on the wiki april 30th), said nothing about how the winning numbers would be determined.
Don't misunderstand - I'm not trying to defend SE here. I'm just posting what I've seen. In fact, I still wonder why nothing was said by SE about how the winning numbers would be chosen until they were actually announced - seems kind of weird.
I still only won the rank 5 prize (on my main and 2 mules) - 3 exp scrolls, max exp given per scroll is 1500 I believe? So I guess I paid 10k for 1500 exp three times - at least it made me laugh :P