Will your wishes come..."true"?

[Inzoum]

Laws don't work in broad generalizations. I can't give you "one good reason" until you're able to provide a single, specific contest from Activision that you were able to participate in to compare to this single, specific contest from S-E.

Hero of the Day contest on the Diablo 3 reveal website. I mentioned it in a previous post:
http://reveal.diablo3.com/en_EU/mark...or/#!/overview
http://reveal.diablo3.com/en_EU/rules_mov

If anything, their contest should have even more complications due to the fact submissions requires posting a picture of you representing a Diablo 3 class along with a banner you've customized on their site. Still, it's open to a huge number of countries (with some exclusions). So, yeah, I can imagine the "blame your retarded government for their laws, not Square Enix" argument does apply to a certain number of wonky countries, states or provinces, but clearly, it's not always the case.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Hero of the Day contest on the Diablo 3 reveal website. I mentioned it in a previous post:

The most glaring difference is that the Diablo contest is for adults only. Minors are only allowed to enter if they are from a smaller subset of countries, and even then require a signed, written statement from a parent or legal guardian to participate.

XIV players can be as young as 13 and no effort was made to discriminate based on age in S-E's contest beyond "we may email your parents." A 13 year-old in the UK isn't allowed to enter the Diablo contest at all.

Pick your poison: exclude minors, or exclude Norse/Swiss/Brazilians/etc.

[Roj]

Its patently obvious from the complaints posted that all the complainers lack that essential skill to win this competition anyway, namley wit.
Ask yourself this, of the countries allowed to participate which is most famous for its sense of humour? Quite. :P

[KumaAkuma]

They're not excluding them on purpose or to irritate you. It's legal issues, and if those legal issues are resolved, the coverage area can increase. until then, they can only do it where the law allows them to. You really don't have any idea how hard it is to run a contest across multiple countries, do you?

Generally, it's only an issue when real monetary/physical prizes are involved. It's usually not a problem for in-game item rewards.

They gave the same arguement at the previous contest. That they were working on it to include more. NOT ONE country has been added since then.

[wiremeshi]

I am completely ok with this.

No more hassling around with that pesky penis all the time.
More comfortable fitting subligar.

And free breakfast to boot!

My dear fellow if this free "breakfast is a wish". Then Wish Granted would you like a good sausage, eggs, bacon, Black pudding, toast and tea affair? or is it just egg anyways its yours me old muka

(all breakfasts are a part of wiremeshi (tm) and are not countable for the following side effects blindness short of breath irregular bowl movements and death)

For my Wish I want to ride that big red moon we keep hearing about just before it hits Eorzea with cowboy hat in hand mind

[Gentaro]

Greetings everyone!

First of all, I would like to deeply apologise to all European players who aren’t eligible to enter this contest. It really saddens the whole European Community Team not be allowed to accept entries from all participants.

We have been striving for opening contests to more countries with our Legal team so as many players as possible could enter. We strongly believe that the more participants the more fun.

Some of you may be wondering “How come Garuda’s contest was open to everyone and not this one”. As Garuda’s contest was based on something that took place solely in-game (the necessary time to defeat Garuda), we were able to open it to all countries. As the nature of this contest is different (forum based only), we had no other choice to restrict it to countries my colleague Sasunaich listed earlier.

Again, we all are sorry for the inconvenience and we understand the frustration from non eligible players.

Can't really agree on that, the Garuda times were posted on the forums as well, and the reward is an ingame item on both, mhm

[Dragon]

The most glaring difference is that the Diablo contest is for adults only. Minors are only allowed to enter if they are from a smaller subset of countries, and even then require a signed, written statement from a parent or legal guardian to participate.

XIV players can be as young as 13 and no effort was made to discriminate based on age in S-E's contest beyond "we may email your parents." A 13 year-old in the UK isn't allowed to enter the Diablo contest at all.

Pick your poison: exclude minors, or exclude Norse/Swiss/Brazilians/etc.

I'd exclude minors regardless.

[Magnesium02]

Countries in the EU region (as per defined by SE) included in the competition:

France
Germany
Italy
Spain
United Kingdom

Countries in the EU region excluded in the competition:

Aland Islands
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belgium
Bhutan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Bouvet Island
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei Darussalam / Brunei
Bulgaria
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Christmas Island
Cocos Islands
Comoros
Congo
Cook Islands
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Democratic Republic of Congo
Denmark
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Faeroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
French Guiana
French Polynesia
French Southern Territories (South Pacific)
Gabon
Georgia
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Guernsey
Hungary
Ice
Ireland
Isle of ManJersey
Israel
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kuwait
Kyrgyz
landIndia
Latvia
Lesotho
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Maldives
Malta & Gozo
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Monaco
Mongolia
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Norfolk Island
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Reunion
RomaniaRussia
Samoa
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Seychelles
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
St. Helena
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Tokelau Islands
Tonga
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
Vatican
Yemen
Zambia

[Taika]

...wait, what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ries_in_Europe

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

I'd exclude minors regardless.

Paying customers, etc.