Yay look... another contest we can't enter!
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Blue Rabbit,
Posted on: 2011-10-07 08:04 in The European Lounge
isn't this like, borderline teasing?
What do you expect, we are from the EU, second class customers. If we want an event or competition, we'll have to make one ourselves.
Brawling Cactus from a distant planet.
well, I was more referring to Scarlet posting this here when the EU isn't eligible...also, you'd have to take your qualms w/ MMORPG.com, since it's their contest.
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Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
This looks really fun except... you guessed it... we're not entitled to join it. So if you don't reside in the Good Ol' NA, then you won't be winning 5 years game time, or getting Matt Miller to give you a haircut or any of that cool stuff.
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Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
What do you expect, we are from the EU, second class customers. If we want an event or competition, we'll have to make one ourselves.
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I may like the thought of 5 years free game time (that's optimism for you) but tying it inextricably to getting Matt to give me a short back and sides is a big no no. No offense to Matts ability to coiffure but they couldn't give me enough game time to this or any other game to make me agree to that, and I don't even put much thought into how my hair looks!
I normally shave my head, but I would grow hair inorder to allow Posi to cut it if I won this prize!
...but, as I am another EU player and therefore locked out of this competition, it's a moot point. :P
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Their 'name', i dont see anywhere stated that its 'their' contest. NCsoft could just have made this contest and gave some cash to MMORPG to advertise it there. You know, like how you advertise your game normaly.|
Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
well, I was more referring to Scarlet posting this here when the EU isn't eligible...also, you'd have to take your qualms w/ MMORPG.com, since it's their contest.
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I just wait for the next event, giving out Europe costume codes at 2-3AM.
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For those who are complaining about it, they can do a *specific* EU competition...
Of course it would still screw over the oceanic players... because they have their *own* competition rulings...
And for those who say "But big international companies do it...", i think you will find that there are still a few countries that are excluded, and if you do win, its actually the "local branch" of the company that actually awards the prize if anything, and not the "head office" branch, even then more than likely, they will run several competitions for it, and have each region hosting their own...
Just doing a quick search for an EU gaming website i have found this:
Eurogamer for example with their VIP trip to Wales Rally competition, it is only open to players from UK, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Benelux, Italy, Spain and Czech Republic
Gamespot: Their competitions are only valid for certain countries... Gamespot UK for UK players, Australia for Australian players...
Of course, the whole MMORPG.com idea was probably *their own* idea, and NCsoft/Paragon Studios just went "yeah, we will go for it"...
The only problem with that is, MMORPG.com has run open to everyone competitions before, heck they've even run open to everyone competitions that gave away NCSoft stuff.
Brawling Cactus from a distant planet.
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Yes, but what were the prizes though? Some of the MMORPG.com competitions that i have seen, where graphics cards were the prizes, were only available to those in the US.|
Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
The only problem with that is, MMORPG.com has run open to everyone competitions before, heck they've even run open to everyone competitions that gave away NCSoft stuff.
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Were they physical prizes, did they involve travelling?
This is where the problem kicks in...
Some prizes can be exempt, others have hidden catches (ie hardware/computer setups can be caught out by customs, as they exceed the allowance for importing)
Sometimes it is better to be safe than sorry
((Side note: Digital prizes are *generally* easier to giveaway than physical items though, because there is no physical item, it will be harder to put a value to))
Well, you may be an EU customer, but I have NO HAIR. So the Flowbee part of it sucks for me. 
/Is there a cash value alternative for that part? 
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Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU
Yes, but what were the prizes though? Some of the MMORPG.com competitions that i have seen, where graphics cards were the prizes, were only available to those in the US.
Were they physical prizes, did they involve travelling? This is where the problem kicks in... Some prizes can be exempt, others have hidden catches (ie hardware/computer setups can be caught out by customs, as they exceed the allowance for importing) Sometimes it is better to be safe than sorry ((Side note: Digital prizes are *generally* easier to giveaway than physical items though, because there is no physical item, it will be harder to put a value to)) |
They've done physical prize give aways to Europe and the rest of the world too.
It's probably the cost of the flight they want to keep down, I mean an internal flight across the USA costs a lot less than say flying the winner from Prague, the middle east or China.
Would be nice of them to offer a similar competition to the rest of their subscriber base though. Perhaps without the silly haircut part though.
Brawling Cactus from a distant planet.
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Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU
For those who are complaining about it, they can do a *specific* EU competition...
Of course it would still screw over the oceanic players... because they have their *own* competition rulings... And for those who say "But big international companies do it...", i think you will find that there are still a few countries that are excluded, and if you do win, its actually the "local branch" of the company that actually awards the prize if anything, and not the "head office" branch, even then more than likely, they will run several competitions for it, and have each region hosting their own... Just doing a quick search for an EU gaming website i have found this: Eurogamer for example with their VIP trip to Wales Rally competition, it is only open to players from UK, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Benelux, Italy, Spain and Czech Republic Gamespot: Their competitions are only valid for certain countries... Gamespot UK for UK players, Australia for Australian players... Of course, the whole MMORPG.com idea was probably *their own* idea, and NCsoft/Paragon Studios just went "yeah, we will go for it"... |
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Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
They've done physical prize give aways to Europe and the rest of the world too.
It's probably the cost of the flight they want to keep down, I mean an internal flight across the USA costs a lot less than say flying the winner from Prague, the middle east or China. Would be nice of them to offer a similar competition to the rest of their subscriber base though. Perhaps without the silly haircut part though. |
Having been more heavily involved with the community side of games than most people here, i can point something out:
95% of the time, if you see a gaming/mmo website running a competition, it is the website owners/community people who came up with the competition and *not* the company... this is why you rarely see multiple competitions for the same game at the same time on different websites? If you do, then more often than not, one will be a "big" prize winner, whilst others will be smaller... not to mention as well that it makes sense not to dilute it too much amongst several sites (competitions are a good way of driving traffic to your own site)
So unless you honestly want NCSoft/Paragon Studios to stop sponsoring competitions there isn't much that they can do.
Well there is, but i think you will find that the NCsoft Europe "EU" competitions will actually miss out several EU player bases... i take it that you will stand up for *THOSE* players as well.
Of course, if you *really* want to do something, get in touch with EU gaming websites and ask the community people there if there is anything that they can do to help out... if they want to run a competition then they will do it, but if they dont, then its no skin off their nose...
Hell, set up a fan site, get it popular and start talking to the Community peoples... chances are you will end up with something that you can offer to the EU players (note: Yes, you can do this, and it can work as well...)
To be honest, this actually sounded like a "WAH WAH WAH RANT"
This looks really fun except... you guessed it... we're not entitled to join it. So if you don't reside in the Good Ol' NA, then you won't be winning 5 years game time, or getting Matt Miller to give you a haircut or any of that cool stuff.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...e-Contest.html
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