Will your wishes come..."true"?

[Matsume]

If wishes were horses beggars would ride...

and we would be overrun with horses as well..

On a side note: can participants reply in more than one language? I am fluent in both french and english, so would it be okay if i made 2 responses in english and one in french for exmple? Thanks~~

[Inzoum]

What kind of BS is this?

The prize is the same as for the Garuda contest, there's no money involved, no gambling (you could argue that guessing the correct time is gambling in the case of the Garuda contest, but there's nothing even remotely close to that here!), yet this contest is all of a sudden super-restricted. What. The. Heck. Seriously, that makes no sense at all and it's just not fair.

It's not a European contest if it's only for some Europeans. OH. RIGHT. Some animals are more equal than others.

I'm sorry to day this but Blizzard have had a daily photo contest for weeks already in preparation for Diablo III's release, and you should see the metric F-ton of countries that are allowed to participate in THEIR contest's rules. Considering that they're having you upload a picture from your Facebook account, there's tons of ways this could go all sorts of wrong. But they still do it, and the prize is very real tangible swag (autographed mousepads).

You're only asking us to anonymously post a wish and the only reward is a fake in-game scarf. And you're not even able to offer that to more than a handful of countries?

I think you're actually managing to insult more people than you are actually pleasing with this stupid contest.

Think about it.

Geez.

Next time you make a contest, try to spend a little more time in advance to get in line with other countries' regulations, and make something that's worth everyone's while.

[Matsume]

What kind of BS is this?

The prize is the same as for the Garuda contest, there's no money involved, no gambling (you could argue that guessing the correct time is gambling in the case of the Garuda contest, but there's nothing even remotely close to that here!), yet this contest is all of a sudden super-restricted. What. The. Heck. Seriously, that makes no sense at all and it's just not fair.

It's not a European contest if it's only for some Europeans. OH. RIGHT. Some animals are more equal than others.

I'm sorry to day this but Blizzard have had a daily photo contest for weeks already in preparation for Diablo III's release, and you should see the metric F-ton of countries that are allowed to participate in THEIR contest's rules. Considering that they're having you upload a picture from your Facebook account, there's tons of ways this could go all sorts of wrong. But they still do it, and the prize is very real tangible swag (autographed mousepads).

You're only asking us to anonymously post a wish and the only reward is a fake in-game scarf. And you're not even able to offer that to more than a handful of countries?

I think you're actually managing to insult more people than you are actually pleasing with this stupid contest.

Think about it.

Geez.

Next time you make a contest, try to spend a little more time in advance to get in line with other countries' regulations, and make something that's worth everyone's while.

Hark...was that an animal farm reference?

[Youmukon]

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.

[Taika]

Thank you Youmukon for taking your time to answer and clear this up for us a bit!

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.

For me it seems the simplest solution to this would be to add some kind of an in game element to all forum contests so that everyone would be able to take part in them. Using the current contest as an example, players could take an in game screenshot related to their "wish" and post it in the contest thread.

I still don't quite understand how the Garuda contest took place in game though...

[Sasunaich]

Thank you Youmukon for taking your time to answer and clear this up for us a bit!


For me it seems the simplest solution to this would be to add some kind of an in game element to all forum contests so that everyone would be able to take part in them. Using the current contest as an example, players could take an in game screenshot related to their "wish" and post it in the contest thread.

Hi Taika,

Unfortunately it is not that easy, for example depending on the kind of contests we do. But please rest assured that we will do our best to expand the list.

I still don't quite understand how the Garuda contest took place in game though...

Garuda had to be defeated in game, therefore other rules applied to this contest. We understand that sometimes it is difficult to see the differences between contests. For contests where all countries can participate please rest assured that we will of course allow everyone to enter.

[Destain]

Thank you Youmukon for taking your time to answer and clear this up for us a bit!


For me it seems the simplest solution to this would be to add some kind of an in game element to all forum contests so that everyone would be able to take part in them. Using the current contest as an example, players could take an in game screenshot related to their "wish" and post it in the contest thread.

I still don't quite understand how the Garuda contest took place in game though...

Let it go. It's a level 1 scarf with no stats. If they could make it available to all they would .

[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.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

I'd exclude minors regardless.

Paying customers, etc.