View Full Version : No contests for EU users ><
Rezeak
12-06-2011, 10:20 PM
Entrant must be a legal resident of the U.S. or Canada (excluding Quebec) and must be 13 years old or older. Only entries from valid North American Square Enix Accounts will be accepted.
You know you did release Final fantasy in the EU as well :(
I can understand w/ material prizes but this is a ingame item prize and it's also another ingame item that all EU user won't get a chance to get. Nt to mention you won't even accept our entries if we want to enter for fun.
Theytak
12-06-2011, 10:42 PM
Sucks to bEU.
...god that was awful, I'm sorry.
Alhanelem
12-07-2011, 02:32 AM
Europe? What's that? Never heard of it.
*ducks*
Runespider
12-07-2011, 02:54 AM
JP players won't get it either I think? Each region runs it's own events I guess, SEEU is lazy so we don't get any at all.
Tsukino_Kaji
12-07-2011, 04:47 PM
Europe? What's that? Never heard of it.
*ducks*I think he means asia.
Kristal
12-07-2011, 09:42 PM
I can understand w/ material prizes but this is a ingame item prize and it's also another ingame item that all EU user won't get a chance to get.
Nomad Moogle Statue is an EXISTING ingame item, which anyone (including EU) can get. All you need to do is find the Tablet of Temperance for the 'weekly' moogle kupower hunt. (Still no walk in the park, but not impossible.)
Blame Brussels and cumbersome EU regulation.
I'm an American Democrat and an advocate of consumer protections, corporate regulations, and the overall reigning in of uncontrolled, destructive capitalism, but some EU regulations just make me scratch my head... I'm willing to bet this contest was a no-brainer in US, but required some sort of permit in EU.
Dreamin
12-08-2011, 01:22 AM
US - only 1 set of regulations to deal with.
EU - count the number of countries in there and that are the potential for ALL rules and regulations that they must meet or potentially face all kinds of issues for SE as a company.
Plus like someone say up top, these are events being run by regional office.
Kristal
12-08-2011, 01:36 AM
Blame Brussels and cumbersome EU regulation.
I'm an American Democrat and an advocate of consumer protections, corporate regulations, and the overall reigning in of uncontrolled, destructive capitalism, but some EU regulations just make me scratch my head... I'm willing to bet this contest was a no-brainer in US, but required some sort of permit in EU.
It's more likely the other way around: US rules don't allow US-based contests -of ANY kind- to include non-Americans.
Even if the prize is a $0 non-item.
Alhanelem
12-08-2011, 05:58 AM
US - only 1 set of regulations to deal with.
EU - count the number of countries in there and that are the potential for ALL rules and regulations that they must meet or potentially face all kinds of issues for SE as a company.
Plus like someone say up top, these are events being run by regional office.
Not entirely accurate.
US: up to four sets of regulations to deal with, depending on where you are: Federal, State, County/parish, Local.
EU: up to four sets fo regulations to deal with times the number of countries (perhaps some EU countries don't have counties/districts/prefectures, I don't know)
Even Canada has it more complicated, with Quebec acting almost like its own seperate country, and Quebec in particular having extremely strict rules regarding contests and competitions (including requiring all rules and legal mumbojumbo to be in French, contest must be seperate/exclusive for Quebec residents including seperate prizes, etc...) That's on top of the rules regarding video games there- It's more difficult to publish games in Canada just because of Quebec which requires a French printed manual to be included, which usually means two manuals in the box if it isn't already trilingual.
So, TL ; DR : The more countries you do business in, the harder it gets to keep everything balanced and equal, because some countries don't allow certain things or have more red tape to go through.
Sasunaich
12-09-2011, 04:16 AM
Hello and good evening,
We understand your frustration but please be assured that we did not forget our EU customers.
Depending on the language/region we work in different teams and therefore contests and events may happen at different times.
However, please look forward to the upcoming EU event we have planned for you and which will actually start tomorrow!
Kraggy
12-09-2011, 07:05 PM
You know you did release Final fantasy in the EU as well :(
I can understand w/ material prizes but this is a ingame item prize and it's also another ingame item that all EU user won't get a chance to get. Nt to mention you won't even accept our entries if we want to enter for fun.
SE have the same problem Blizzard, Turbine, Trion and others have: asinine laws in some EU countries means a nightmare for an international company to make sure they comply with everyone.
Not surprising every MMO I've played that has stuff like this usually restricts it to one part of the world or other, and usually only the US where such asinine laws don't usually exist.
I suspect this is one such case, where SE is erring on the side of caution.
Youmukon
12-09-2011, 08:32 PM
Hello everyone!
The European Screenshot Caption Contest is finally there! Sadly, due to legal reasons, the contest is only open to players living in the UK, France, Germany and Italy.
For this occasion, three categories have been created: English (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/forums/341) / German (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/forums/343) / French (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/forums/342)
You are free to choose on which forum you want to participate (but can only choose one among the three). The caption will have to be posted in the language matching the category.
Good luck to all participants!
Dragoy
12-09-2011, 09:31 PM
Borderline amazing how difficult seemingly simple stuff like selling a CD or sending prizes (I'm assuming this is the part that the laaawwww is prohibiting (sorry for the reference)) can be.
Ohhh well, I'm well used to this by now.
Once again, good luck to those who are allowed to participate, and have fun!
Asymptotic
12-09-2011, 09:33 PM
Man, I kind of feel bad for EU players in other countries. It's a horrible shame that lawyers and legislators have complicated things so much that you can't even hold a for-fun contest for a non-monetary item open to residents of any country without legal ramifications.
ShadowHeart
12-09-2011, 10:26 PM
sounds like BS about law to me personally what about all the contests for the previous years. MOG BONANZA ??? 100 mil gil or various in game items offered to everyone at the same time.... whats next separating servers into their own regions...
Kristal
12-09-2011, 10:33 PM
Hello everyone!
The European Screenshot Caption Contest is finally there! Sadly, due to legal reasons, the contest is only open to players living in the UK, France, Germany and Italy.
For this occasion, three categories have been created: English (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/forums/341) / German (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/forums/343) / French (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/forums/342)
You are free to choose on which forum you want to participate (but can only choose one among the three). The caption will have to be posted in the language matching the category.
Good luck to all participants!
If I didn't already have all of the prizes (or better, I got the secret 5th taru set, and my rabite keychain is much cooler dangling from the security token then the FFXI ones;), I'd be somewhat upset...
Antipika
12-09-2011, 10:41 PM
sounds like BS about law to me personally what about all the contests for the previous years. MOG BONANZA ??? 100 mil gil or various in game items offered to everyone at the same time.... whats next separating servers into their own regions...
Virtual items and real items are regulated by different laws... If you want to complain, take the political route. Government are making laws, not SE.
Also it's not because something happened before that SE was following the law properly. I'm thinking about EU customers having NA account, paying in USD and never paying their VAT on their membership fee.
Dragoy
12-09-2011, 10:42 PM
sounds like BS about law to me personally what about all the contests for the previous years. MOG BONANZA ??? 100 mil gil or various in game items offered to everyone at the same time.... whats next separating servers into their own regions...
I'm assuming it's about the real-life items in this case, which the Mog Bonanza has nothing to do with. ^^
Even though I can not take part, again, it is nice to see they share some joy to at least some parts of the Europe. I was more annoyed about the FFXI OST PLUS not being available to most of the Europe, but I got one from "play-asia.com" who are able to ship stuff to pretty much anywhere, so meh!
The official stores always had a lot of stuff not available to most places so it's nothing new. I guess they don't have the resources to pay for the legal expenses this kind of things require. That, as my uneducated guess, is what prevents SqEX from sending real items to most places.
noodles355
12-10-2011, 01:16 AM
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b330/noodles355/picardgigas.png
Lessina
12-10-2011, 03:27 AM
Adding and EU contest and I'm still excluded?
Why do you hate me Square Enix, what did I do to you? (/cry)
Kluaf
12-10-2011, 04:35 AM
umm did they just make this up outta nowhere bcuz of the thread???
Hello everyone!
The European Screenshot Caption Contest is finally there! Sadly, due to legal reasons, the contest is only open to players living in the UK, France, Germany and Italy.
For this occasion, three categories have been created: English (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/forums/341) / German (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/forums/343) / French (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/forums/342)
You are free to choose on which forum you want to participate (but can only choose one among the three). The caption will have to be posted in the language matching the category.
Good luck to all participants!
detlef
12-10-2011, 04:53 AM
I feel no sympathy for EU. You have Kinder eggs.
noodles355
12-10-2011, 06:19 AM
I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair. I call them the Eggs Of Numbing Inevitability.
detlef
12-10-2011, 07:08 AM
I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair. I call them the Eggs Of Numbing Inevitability.People who eat the toy are why Americans cannot have nice things.
Thunderstorm
12-10-2011, 10:33 AM
Oh, how I miss those adorable Kinder eggs!!! :(
Zaknafein
12-10-2011, 11:32 AM
Sorry the EU forum is only of use when explaining how votes for pets were arrived at.
ShadowHeart
12-10-2011, 12:52 PM
we have the kinder eggs in canada still .... it just seems so unfair that we all play a game with members from around the world that we can not participate in the contests universally.... there have been contests for years now and all were able tp participate if people choose to
Greatguardian
12-10-2011, 12:58 PM
Sorry the EU forum is only of use when explaining how votes for pets were arrived at.
What EU forum? All I see are America, Japan, and Belgium forums (they get two because they have awesome waffles).
Lessina
12-11-2011, 12:14 AM
What EU forum? All I see are America, Japan, and Belgium forums (they get two because they have awesome waffles).You mean the English forum... right?
Sasunaich
12-21-2011, 01:04 AM
Dear players,
the deadline of the entry period for our FINAL FANTASY XI Screenshot Caption Contest (EU) is approaching fast so don't wait too long if you want to have one of the smilebringer's shiny prizes.
Speaking about prizes... It came to our attention that some of you are worried about the number of prizes available for each language forum. Rest assured that we have 3 prizes for each language category, so feel free to post in your own language's thread.
Also don't forget to vote for your favourite entries while you are at it and help the smilebringers to bring happiness to our participants.