I always understood it as meaning the winning number is the one that wins the jackpot - not the only number drawn.

It's too bad though that someone felt the NPC story of Maat would encourage lots of similar guessing because Maat only said he'd pick one number.

Like others said, I don't see any problem as SE was kind enough to do this. Though there might have been some discrepency in how things were repeatedly worded over the weeks showing us this game, I had np knowing what they were going to do.

Congrats to all the winners!

I do agree that this looks like a big conspriarcy. Everyone I know thoguht the same thing.....one number. Just one.

But, lets just remember one little thing.... SE owns all rights to anything having to do with this game. There was no contract. They are under no obligation to do a damn thing for any one of us except make sure the game runs. They don't HAVE to even give us new material in the game.

Bottom line is....don't fret over what coulda/shoulda/woulda/maybe/kinda/me me me me me. It really doesn't matter. Sure we didn't get **** after getting our hopes up. That's life.

i was 1 digit off from the rank 3 prize oh well at least i get free exp.

...EXP scrolls for my mules! Sigh. Oh, well, it was fun while it lasted. Congrats to everyone else who got some goodies from the MogBonanza.

out've all my characters I think I came up with about 10 Rank 5 winners and 1 rank 4 winner.

The original context was misleading. It does sound like they'd only pick one number. It's obvious why they didn't, then a person would ***** that he won all 5 ranks instead of just rank 1. However, you have to trade your marble in to receive the prize for it, and after he traded his rank 1 marble in he wouldn't have it anymore to trade for the other 4, so maybe 1 number would be better afterall. Personally I don't care either way, because if they only picked the 5 number combo, i would not only lose my 10 exp scrolls and behemoth hide, but i wouldn't win anything new either.

Ya know, just suck it up, they didn't have to run this lottery in the first place. You'll all get your fair chunk of that 6 or 7 billion gil when the economy inflates and farmed item prices skyrocket... you'll just have to work for it, as usual.

Had the rules been the 1 master number I woulda have a tier 2 item....as it stands I won nothing...

Edited, Jun 30th 2008 12:44pm by Aedder

1) 56 Grand prize winners? With a 1/100,000 chance to choose the right number, does 56 winners sound absurdly high? Did 56 ppl pray to Bruce Almighty for the winning number?
2) A few within my circle of friends online are exceptionally critical and skeptical of SE, so much so that they are confident SE would not award a winning number to anyone from NA. I don't exactly buy into this conspiracy theory, but once you hear it, it does stay back there in the brain.

The rules were to pick a five-digit number to play. Why did SE pick numbers with 1 through 5 digits? If the five digit number was "47396", Rank 1 prize would be "47396", and Rank 4 prize should've been "-7396", not "1017". Why did they change the rules the day of the drawing? Is there something that I missed?


From FFXI Official Website:

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.
* Employees of Square Enix, Square Enix Inc. and Square Enix Ltd. and their relatives are forbidden from participating in the Mog Bonanza.

oops.

Edited, Jun 30th 2008 10:24am by zackydavid