Announcing the "VanaFest Golden Gobbiebag Giveaway"! (NA)

I would pay good money to see Camate and Bayohne's Bogus Journey.

Hell yeah! New expansion: Weekend at Bubbly Bernies (Can I Have It?) =D

Finally! Bleh! at having to pick which one now, why couldn't you just use the previous moogles to hand them out if you won them. I guarantee you I'll get the item I picked now normally before the prizes are awarded, and I'll probably win it again too.

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Originally Posted by Daniel_Hatcher

Finally! Bleh! at having to pick which one now, why couldn't you just use the previous moogles to hand them out if you won them. I guarantee you I'll get the item I picked now normally before the prizes are awarded, and I'll probably win it again too.

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Or you could just opt-out of the drawing if its so deficient. You are just a miserable sod aren't you?

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Originally Posted by Spiritreaver

Or you could just opt-out of the drawing if its so deficient. You are just a miserable sod aren't you?

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I'm logical, big difference.

Prize 1 I can guarantee not getting, the others however are possible to get depending on the R.N.G, as such I'd potentially take a space as a winner and would be unable to obtain it. Not just blocking someone else, but also blocking myself.

But hey, whatever!

Didn't get an email confirmation either is this working right?

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Originally Posted by Zumi

Didn't get an email confirmation either is this working right?

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I have yet to receive a confirmation and I entered 11 hours ago.

been waiting for the e-mail confirmation as well, and nothing yet. :(

I can't enter - It says "Region is different" with a red X

Nice and descriptive error messages!

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Originally Posted by Daniel_Hatcher

I'm logical, big difference.

Prize 1 I can guarantee not getting, the others however are possible to get depending on the R.N.G, as such I'd potentially take a space as a winner and would be unable to obtain it. Not just blocking someone else, but also blocking myself.

But hey, whatever!

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Work on something else you want that isn't your pick/pick something else that you aren't actively working on in the next month. Boom. Logic'd.

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Originally Posted by Smeggles

I can't enter - It says "Region is different" with a red X

Nice and descriptive error messages!

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Be sure to enter via the correct link:

• Europe: http://www.playonline.com/ff11eu/event/vanafest2012/
  
  
• America: http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/event/vanafest2012/index.html

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Originally Posted by Chamaan

Work on something else you want that isn't your pick/pick something else that you aren't actively working on in the next month. Boom. Logic'd.

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Or it could have just been done you pick if you win, and not otherwise.

I'm having a completely different issue, It won't even let me log in. I clicked the link to bring me to the event page. Then I click the link to enter and I am brought to the page where I need to log in. I entered my ID and password correctly (i've tried 15+ times) and clicked Log In Button and nothing happens. It's like the button doesn't work at all. I made sure I clicked on the NA version because I'm in USA. I even went to the main ffxi site and logged into my SE account to make sure I had the right ID and password and was able to log in with no problem. What's the issue now?

Is there going to be be a similar gobbiebag giveaway in the New Zealand/Australia Region?

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Originally Posted by Zerro

I'm having a completely different issue, It won't even let me log in. I clicked the link to bring me to the event page. Then I click the link to enter and I am brought to the page where I need to log in. I entered my ID and password correctly (i've tried 15+ times) and clicked Log In Button and nothing happens. It's like the button doesn't work at all. I made sure I clicked on the NA version because I'm in USA. I even went to the main ffxi site and logged into my SE account to make sure I had the right ID and password and was able to log in with no problem. What's the issue now?

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Ok, after almost 2 hours I just figured it out after posting that. In case anyone else has this problem, here's the solution. Apparently, only the login page for that contest is not compatible with the newest version on IE. If your using IE, when you reach the login page you need to click on the image that looks like a broken page up in the address bar. When you mouse over it, it should say compatibility view ( and something about clicking it to make older??? webpages display correctly.) Once I clicked that, the page reloaded and login in worked. It was a pain to figure out, so hopefully this will help others with the same issue.

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Originally Posted by Taylin

Is there going to be be a similar gobbiebag giveaway in the New Zealand/Australia Region?

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They only have JP, NA, or EU licensed copies of the game. You'll have to register with the region that your account is affiliated with.

Joining the "No confirmation e-mail received" bandwagon. Hope this doesn't destroy my incredibly slim chance of getting a Moogle suit, I was looking forward to terrorizing the denizens of Vana'diel. :p

There's very likely some delay on the confirmation-mails.

Don't fret yet!

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Originally Posted by Daniel_Hatcher

Or it could have just been done you pick if you win, and not otherwise.

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They could have setup the choices as more of a survey to give them an idea of what players in the game want also. (Just a guess)

No confirmation e-mail either. And, it's been a day.

Incoming contest being void because they say no one entered?

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

The Golden Gobbiebag Giveaway has launched (sorry again for the delay)! You can enter by visiting the VanaFest 2012 "Golden Gobbiebag Giveaway" page (or visit the entry page directly by clicking here (NA users))

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And the EU players are left out yet again.

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Originally Posted by Kraggy

And the EU players are left out yet again.

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Or you can go to the EU one here:

http://www.playonline.com/ff11eu/eve...012/index.html

Clicking the proper NA link brought me to a login page (even though I was already logged-in to my SE account in another tab) and when I logged in again it brought me to a mostly-blank page with just a standard SE template and no content.

Disabled adblock and tried again using my default browser (chrome) and no luck. Tried a fresh Firefox install with no adblockers inside a VM and got the same blank template page. I'm not willing to try with IE, even inside a VM.

SE's webdev team never ceases to amaze me. Not in a good way.

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Originally Posted by Enochroot

Clicking the proper NA link brought me to a login page (even though I was already logged-in to my SE account in another tab) and when I logged in again it brought me to a mostly-blank page with just a standard SE template and no content.

Disabled adblock and tried again using my default browser (chrome) and no luck. Tried a fresh Firefox install with no adblockers inside a VM and got the same blank template page. I'm not willing to try with IE, even inside a VM.

SE's webdev team never ceases to amaze me. Not in a good way.

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lol, internet explorer is not that unsafe.

I read that prize distribution is during the month of July by the MHMU, but when does that start? A few hours after contest ends, the following day, week?

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Originally Posted by Daniel_Hatcher

lol, internet explorer is not that unsafe.

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Heh, mind defining the version there? ^^;
Either way, worked fine with Opera + Privoxy on Gentoo Linux!

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Originally Posted by Demonicpagan

I read that prize distribution is during the month of July by the MHMU, but when does that start? A few hours after contest ends, the following day, week?

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If memory serves, they'll simply send them to the delivery boxen.

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Originally Posted by Enochroot

Clicking the proper NA link brought me to a login page (even though I was already logged-in to my SE account in another tab) and when I logged in again it brought me to a mostly-blank page with just a standard SE template and no content.

Disabled adblock and tried again using my default browser (chrome) and no luck. Tried a fresh Firefox install with no adblockers inside a VM and got the same blank template page. I'm not willing to try with IE, even inside a VM.

SE's webdev team never ceases to amaze me. Not in a good way.

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It worked for me on Saffari.

I've now tried:

- Win7 Safari, Firefox, Chrome(dev channel)
- OSX Safari, Firefox, Chrome(dev channel)

I've disabled all adblockers, done fresh browser installs, nuked cookie caches. When I click the contest entry link it brings me to an SE login page (even if I have secure.square-enix.com cookies set having already been logged in) and after logging in AGAIN, I get to this page:

https://secure.square-enix.com/accou...l&cont=enqform

Which is just a blank SE template.

If I swap out the escape characters in the URL and go directly to after successfully logging in:

https://secure.square-enix.com/enqt/e/NMB2012NA/html

Then it sends me back to the same SE account login page. Obviously I'm logging in just fine to my SE account if I'm keeping my Crysta up-to-date and posting to this forum.... So... what gives?

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Originally Posted by Duvemora

Joining the "No confirmation e-mail received" bandwagon. Hope this doesn't destroy my incredibly slim chance of getting a Moogle suit, I was looking forward to terrorizing the denizens of Vana'diel. :p

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same here, did the thing and no email yet...

Maybe they won't email us unless we are winners :x
I put in the info as well and no confirmation e-mail so I started thinking that maybe the case.

Greetings,

Sorry for the confusion surrounding the text stating that there will be a confirmation email sent out upon entry, but that is actually not the case. So don't fret if you have not received a confirmation email as we are not actually sending any out for the Golden Gobbiebag Giveaway!

As others have said, if you're getting a "Region is different" error, make sure you're entering the giveaway via the correct link that matches the region of your Square Enix account - http://sqex.to/mxZ (NA) http://sqex.to/3cs (EU)

I wasn't anticipating it, but I did imagine there was just some issues with the system as to why they weren't being sent but I didn't imagine it would be something lost in translation, or somewhere before that even!

Funky. ^^

Whew, that's a relief... was starting to get worried lol. Thanks for letting us know what was going on :)

FWIW, I'm still receiving the blank page. I've spent time on webchat with support and I've filed a website bug on these forums. I've tried different browsers, OS's, and ISP's and still getting the blank page when logging in to the Gobbiebag Giveaway URL (not a region error). I did manage to find an error in the Javascript on that page (more detail in the bug report).

It strikes me as odd that I'm the only one reporting this error and it makes me worried that there are only 2 days left in the contest... I'm not sure that's enough time for the engineers to find and fix the problem.

It does feel a bit silly that they restrict entries for one per SqEX Account, instead of POL Account, I think.

Many will likely have multiple SqEX Accounts, while others have linked their multiple POL Accounts to the same one for convenience, and for that, they get sort of left out a bit.

They still pay a full price and all that stuff~ =/

Have you tried using a different computer? Not sure if that would fix it or not but I would give it a try for the hell of it haha.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Greetings,

Sorry for the confusion surrounding the text stating that there will be a confirmation email sent out upon entry, but that is actually not the case. So don't fret if you have not received a confirmation email as we are not actually sending any out for the Golden Gobbiebag Giveaway!

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Thank you for replying. I was really worried that my application wouldn't be counted because I did not receive an e-mail.

Good luck with the Giveaway, everyone! :)

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Originally Posted by Mettle

Have you tried using a different computer? Not sure if that would fix it or not but I would give it a try for the hell of it haha.

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I've tried 4 different computers on 4 different ISPs now. I COULD go to the local library to try a fifth, but meh. There's a whole big thread over in the website bug section now.

Any idea of when prizes will be sent out? Site says sometime in July but yeah