10th Vana'versary Mog Bonanza

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

while the Catholic church five min walk from me has bingo every friday for a cash pot

Your Catholic parish doesn't have to simultaneously deal with the laws of 50+ US states/etc, 10+ Canadian provinces/etc, 27 EU members (including a number of federations with their own sub-national laws, similar to the US and Canada), not to mention all the other countries S-E officially sells FFXI in...

[Zumi]

Ok I don't get how having a lottery for items in a video game would be against some country's laws but whatever lol

[Kraggy]

Ok I don't get how having a lottery for items in a video game would be against some country's laws but whatever lol

If you play any (many?) MMOs these days which try to have in-game content like this you'll find all of them have this problem: largely caused by some asinine laws in some EU countries.

Blizzard (WOW), Trion (Rift) and Turbine (LOTRO) are three I play in addition to FF who suffer like this and I know others are also affected.

What I don't get it what changed since last year, or maybe SE learned that they were liable in previous years but 'got away with it'.

Sad, very sad, for the vast majority of players who don't live in countries with crass laws on gambling .. though since America has crass laws on on-line gambling that are designed to protect Mob gambling interests in Nevada primarily, I guess NA players are also subject to stupidity from their law makers.

I just wish companies like SE who suffer this would name and shame the countries whose stupid laws have created this situation.

[Dragoy]

While Japan will hold the Nomad Mog Bonanza at VanaFest 2012, it will mark the final Mog Bonanza of Vana’diel [...]

[...] we will be offering a different event for our end of the year celebration [...]

You mean end of the world celebration, right?

In all seriousness, I'd say the last one happened in 2011 already since VanaFest itself does not take place in Vana'diel... but who's counting.

This really does not bode well.
In fact, this bodes ill.

[Spiritreaver]

Your Catholic parish doesn't have to simultaneously deal with the laws of 50+ US states/etc, 10+ Canadian provinces/etc, 27 EU members (including a number of federations with their own sub-national laws, similar to the US and Canada), not to mention all the other countries S-E officially sells FFXI in...

I said i knew it wasn't the same thing, sheesh.

Still very silly.

[VoiceMemo]

Greetings!

As many of you seem to be curious about the status of the Nomad Mog Bonanza, I’d like to take a moment to explain the current situation.

The North America and European Community Teams have been working diligently preparing for the Nomad Mog Bonanza, but unfortunately due to changing times and differing global laws, we will not be able to hold a Mog Bonanza for NA and EU regions moving forward.

While Japan will hold the Nomad Mog Bonanza at VanaFest 2012, it will mark the final Mog Bonanza of Vana’diel. Furthermore, to make sure that our players in North America and Europe aren't left out, we will be holding a separate event where players will be able to win similar prizes (all the goodies from tier 1, tier 2, and tier3…plus a bunch of other rare in-game items), so rest assured we will be giving you a good opportunity to make all your Vana’diel dreams come true!

Also, even though the Mog Bonanza will be gone, we will be offering a different event for our end of the year celebration for a chance to win the items of your dreams!

We will be announcing the NA/EU event very shortly, so hang tight and look forward to it!

Please elaborate on exactly which global laws are applying in this case. Laws are meant to be known so I see no reason not to name them. This way we can contact our representative to have such laws repealed. No such law should interfere with a private company's internal policies. I could see laws applying in this case if it was acutal monetary rewards but since it's all in game rewards I don't think laws should apply in this case. The game was designed by YOU(SE) and you should have total control over the virtual world's global laws. Laws from the real world that interfere on the virtual are overstepping their bounds and should not be supported.

Please post exactly which laws so we can contact our representatives to make it known that we do not support such laws and think that they should be repealed.

[Demonicpagan]

Please elaborate on exactly which global laws are applying in this case. Laws are meant to be known so I see no reason not to name them. This way we can contact our representative to have such laws repealed. No such law should interfere with a private company's internal policies. I could see laws applying in this case if it was acutal monetary rewards but since it's all in game rewards I don't think laws should apply in this case. The game was designed by YOU(SE) and you should have total control over the virtual world's global laws. Laws from the real world that interfere on the virtual are overstepping their bounds and should not be supported.

Please post exactly which laws so we can contact our representatives to make it known that we do not support such laws and think that they should be repealed.

I'd have to agree with this. We have a right to know what global laws are interfering with something we all have grown accustom to participating in for the past couple years.

[Avina]

I just hope whatever the event is, its an improvement over the Bonanza. I liked being able to collect the furnishings and the statues over the years (the only things you could 'count' on getting). I'll be thoroughly disappointed if this event is some intense contest where you have to do some trivial/annoying task.

It probably would have been a good idea to announce the new event simultaneously with announcing that the Mog Bonanza will end.

[nomanni]

see this is where ur wrong, for example lets say some joeblow on a server wins rank 1 and choose the gil, whats stopping him from selling the gil for monetary gain memo<<<.i personally think its a great idea to stop all the bs thats been goin around with all the bonaza's.

[Avina]

You mean end of the world celebration, right?

In all seriousness, I'd say the last one happened in 2011 already since VanaFest itself does not take place in Vana'diel... but who's counting.

This really does not bode well.
In fact, this bodes ill.

inb4 SE announces at Vanafest 2012 the end of the FFXI service once the game reaches 11 years old. And then no one goes to XIV (and some, like me, terminate their XIV account forever)