Ok let's talk about events and Europeans

[kyuven]

Canada itself is like two different countries when it comes to contest laws.
Quebec is different from the other provinces/territories in quite a few things.
http://contests.about.com/od/sweepst...idinQuebec.htm

the US is like that too. Except we have a lot more states with a lot more convoluted gambling laws.
Seriously. It gets pretty weird in some places.

[Adrian74]

And some of those european countries have a chore of extensive laws.... (cough, Spain, cough)

It becomes a pain even for those trying to learn it.

[Spiroth]

-Scarf of Wondrous Wit
-Bluebird Earrings
-Red Lotus Magilites


I want these


It doesn't help that there were 30+ Bluebird Earrings just thrown away because the same people won them twice.....

[Eye_Gore]

the US is like that too. Except we have a lot more states with a lot more convoluted gambling laws.
Seriously. It gets pretty weird in some places.

Was going to mention this also. The US has Federal and State law all different, especially when it comes to contests. If you ever read the fine print on alot of things there are states that would be excluded or have variances. Granted Federal law trumps State law in most cases. States are free to make their own laws where no Federal laws exists, or make more stringent laws to current Federal laws. Like minimum wage, the Feds set the absolute minimum but states can increase that amount, just can't lower it.

[Yitan]

-Scarf of Wondrous Wit
-Bluebird Earrings
-Red Lotus Magilites


I want these


It doesn't help that there were 30+ Bluebird Earrings just thrown away because the same people won them twice.....

Well at least you have / had the ABILITY to participate and have a chance to win them.

[Belhi]

My guess is it has to do with different community teams holding the separate events. Laws and such would create a great number of restrictions and in addition there is the question of how much additional work is required to get such a competition to everyone. Slapping a character creator onto a benchmark wouldn't be much work I suspect. Creating something for PS3 and PS4 users to download so that they could play with Au Ra character creation 7 weeks early would be an entirely extra project.

Honestly, these things have to be within SEs budget to facilitate. The real alternative is less or worse no events. Is that actually better?

Frankly as an oceanic player I almost never qualify for any contests anyway.

[Riepah]

They should quite simply allow EU residents to participate in the NA events if they're capable of speaking the English language to the extent required.

I speak English. I play on an NA server. I live in Europe. Why is that last one such a big deal? Why am I excluded simply because of where I live? If anything, contests should be based on which servers you're on and which languages you speak, not where you live, since no physical prizes are involved at all.

[DrOstler]

I came here expecting you to be complaining about how awful and bland the in game events are.
Talk to person A
Talk to person B
Talk to person A
Kill this really easy thing
Talk to person B
Talk to person A
Collect vanity gear + housing furniture.

EVERY. EVENT. EVER.

[Peachy]

Why are you guys angry at SE for this? you dont think they want to include everyone in these hype building community events? there is no benefit for them to leave anyone out, they simply have no choice and some cases its not worth the extra legal effort. The other option is to not do any at all and thats a childish attitude isnt it? SE isnt our parent playing favorites, its a company that doesnt owe you anything, you choose to subscribe.

[Devils_Lawyer]

There has been events for both NA and EU that has been identical with identical ingame prizes (screenshot contests for example) and that has worked just fine before so aslong as there is no real life or physical prize involved there is no reason why it wouldnt work.