We Dub to Make it Our Own..

[Absconditus]

I personally find it to be a failure to host a contest, for a game that is spanning the regions, where only U.S. and Canadian residents are eligible. If they had separate regions, it'd be a different story. Perhaps it's only me that feels that way, but I am disappointed to see this happen.

It's the very fact that I can play with players from all over the world, which I find to be one of the huge strengths of XI and XIV. Thus, hosting contests where you lock out a large part of the playerbase, is something I find to be shortsighted and somewhat stupid.

Then again, I understand that there will be a large part of the community that does not share my view of it, and find my opinion to be shortsighted and stupid. I can live with that.



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PS: While there are obviously laws to abide, they've managed to host other community contests that is not "region locked" so far. One of the main reasons this one isn't, is likely to do with physical prizes of monetary value (which is low enough to not require any legal filings in most states (incl. Rhode Island) and/or countries). It's not like they haven't managed to find a way to include all the regions in the past. Keeping it digital and non-monetary, they should be able to include the world the game services.—I think it's great that they are hosting a community contest like this, I am just disappointed to see them cut out a big part of the community.