Guild Wars 2

i looked in to this contest rules and looked up about the prices, but i see a problem.
by now allot of ppl already have the crystal dragon wings, this kinda lowers the value of the price in question.

so my question is, what if you already have the wings, does that mean you just won for nothing?

I don’t precisely agree with your sentiment — on top of getting to design a (small) piece of the game there’s a whole slew of physical and digital prizes, not just the glider, so it’s not “nothing.” And normally my opinion is that prizes are as prizes are, either they tempt one to enter or they don’t and participation in any contest is voluntary.

However, I do have to agree that offering as a prize to a few lucky (and talented) winners something that anyone can hop into the gem store and buy at this very moment seems a little less, ah, motivating. I’m sure they can’t change the rules at this point but in the future I’d hope they’d consider offering winners a choice of any glider, including BL RNG ones, to more fully motivate. Sure there will be a few folks that already have all the gliders, so those few would need to be content with the other offerings or just the thrill of the competition itself (yes, that’s a thing, not everyone stretches themselves creatively only when chasing filthy lucre). But overall it would be a more exciting prize.

For reference:

• Guild Wars 2 ‘Design a Weapon’ Contest Announcement
• Contest Rules

PRIZES
1st place

• The integration into the game of the Design entry,
• Printed version of the Design entry signed by the development team,
• Kite City Cook and Becker print,
• Path of Fire T-Shirt,
• Code for 2000 gems
• Guild Wars 2 signed artbook,
• Crystalline Dragon Wings Glider

2nd Place

• Integration into the game of the Design entry
• Printed version of the Design entry signed by the development team,
• Eir Swimming Cook and Becker print,
• Path of Fire T-Shirt,
• Code for 1200 gems,
• Guild Wars 2 signed artbook,
• Crystalline Dragon Wings Glider

3rd place

• Includes the integration into the game of the Design entry,
• Printed version of the Design entry signed by the development team,
• Charr Cook and Becker print,
• Path of Fire T-Shirt,
• Code for 800 gems,
• Guild Wars 2 artbook,
• Crystalline Dragon Wings Glider

4th place

• Printed version of the Design entry signed by the development team,
• Flying past Kite City Cook and Beckerprint,
• Path of Fire T-Shirt,
• Code for 800 gems,
• Guild Wars 2 artbook,
• Crystalline Dragon Wings Glider.

5th place

• Printed version of the Design entry signed by the development team,
• Path of Fire T-Shirt,
• Code for 400 gems,
• Guild Wars 2 artbook,
• Crystalline Dragon Wings Glider.

6th – 20th Place (15 people)

• Path of Fire T-Shirt,
• Code for 400 gems,
• Crystalline Dragon Wings Glider

I’m sure that if someone wins who already owns the Crystalline Dragon Wings and graciously asks support about it, they’ll figure out something.

I think the only folks that might even care that much are the 15 in places 6-20, since they’ll get just a T-shirt, an achievement chest’s worth of gems, and the glider skin.