I read the rules of the new contest and its sad that European cant participate... however, when reading the rules I found this part .....
2. ELIGIBILITY
To enter the contest, as of February 21, 2007, (a) you must be 13 years of age or older, (b) you must have Internet access, an email account and access to a personal computer, (c) you must be a resident of the United States (excluding the State of Rhode Island, and excluding Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. territories, military installations and commonwealths), Canada (excluding Quebec) ( Canadian residents will be required to answer an additional mathematical question in order to claim their prizes ), or the European Union, and (d) you must be a current Lineage® II subscriber (meaning you must have an active account). Employees of each Sponsor, and their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, representatives, advertising, promotion and publicity agencies and members of the immediate families (defined as parents, children, siblings and spouse, regardless of where they reside) or households of such employees are not eligible. Contest is void where prohibited, restricted or taxed by law. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.
........... http://www.lineage2.com/news/event_rules7.html
I knew one person at work who didn't get a Wii off of Amazon.com on launch because Amazon did a similar thing to prevent automated programs, and they got 4 + 7 wrong.
lol amazon did something like that also?? whats the point of asking a math problem? is it to make sure the person has atleast a high school education :eek:
lol amazon did something like that also?? whats the point of asking a math problem? is it to make sure the person has atleast a high school education :eek:
Nah, it is probably some stupid law thing about "gambling" or that NCSoft is not allowed to just "give" you something. So I guess when you are from Canada and win the contest, somebody will contact you and say "ok, let's do this, according to your laws you have to answer a question before you can win something, so what is 1+1? Right, here's your prize."
The making of a wallpaper requiring skill and not chance, they removed the line about circumventing anti-gambling laws. It was useless.
Europeans are allowed to partake, but why not Quebec?
I'd like to ask why Russian Federation is expluded from contest. Game was released in RF like a year ago, we pay the same amount of money as anyone else and according to my knowledge we have quite liberate lawsuit - similar contests happen quite often in our coutry...
What's the problem, Mistryl?
NB: Russian Federation is not a part of European Union.
Canada (excluding Quebec)....
Time to switch my adress from my mom's house (Quebec) to my dad's house (not in Quebec)
Mwahahaha !
Anyways, about that math testing question.
Every single contest you have ot answer that supid math question here in Canada. Ive always wondered why, now I know :) Some are more "complicated" others.
Just a reminder:
2 + 4 x 5 is NOT 30
2 + 4 x 5 = 22
Canada (excluding Quebec)....
Time to switch my adress from my mom's house (Quebec) to my dad's house (not in Quebec)
Mwahahaha !
LOL, you **** hacker !!!
I remember when E-bay started, you had to have an american address to be able to sell on E-bay. Shortly after I got special dispensation to be able to sell from canada, E-Bay announced that canadian residents could now sell on E-Bay... Nowadays, I think you can sell on E-Bay from just about any country.
Quebec requires companies to follow some unique rules when offering their residents online contests – only one of which is presenting all the contest copy and Official Rules both in English and French. We love throwing contests for our community, but unfortunately we don’t have all the extra time and bandwidth required to follow the out-of-the-ordinary rules Quebec and other countries make us follow in order to involve their residents.
Russia is not part of the European Union, so players from that country are also ineligible to participate.
Thank you to everyone who is interested in the wallpaper contest! I am looking forward to all of the entries. :)
Quebec requires companies to follow some unique rules when offering their residents online contests – only one of which is presenting all the contest copy and Official Rules both in English and French. We love throwing contests for our community, but unfortunately we don’t have all the extra time and bandwidth required to follow the out-of-the-ordinary rules Quebec and other countries make us follow in order to involve their residents.
So basically we are difficult and we speak 2 languages. I play out the part pretty well, don't I ?
I understand NC's position and quite frankly, I agree with it. I mean, why all the hassle when you are trying to be generous. And you guys are no different than most major companies.
To tell you the truth, authorities will not pursue companies who don't try to profit from their contests (example : charging 50 cents for every entry...).
Like there is a law that you have to wear a shirt at all times in the street (including men). On hot days, all men are shirtless and nobody gets arrested.
Quebec requires companies to follow some unique rules when offering their residents online contests – only one of which is presenting all the contest copy and Official Rules both in English and French. We love throwing contests for our community, but unfortunately we don’t have all the extra time and bandwidth required to follow the out-of-the-ordinary rules Quebec and other countries make us follow in order to involve their residents.
Russia is not part of the European Union, so players from that country are also ineligible to participate.
Thank you to everyone who is interested in the wallpaper contest! I am looking forward to all of the entries. :)
I bet you could easily find some player to translate it to french for you.
That's now at least 3 french speaking people who replied after your reply.
And yet you require everyone else to speak "French". That's the problem.
That's not true. We only require that the contest sponsor posts rules in both english and french (our 2 official languages) so that any resident can read the rules.
Even myself or anyone else translating the rules in this post would be enough to meet the requirements.
Basically, the fierce laws in effect in Québec are there for a reason. The government controls all gambling and loteries that operate for a profit. If you try to make a profit with a contest, then you are taking their money away, that's when they'll go for you.
They don't give a crap about a few jewels given away in some computer game community. Unless NC tries to make money with the contest.
I'm checking with our legal department about that. . becuause I'd really love to open up our contests to canadian residents as well :) Annnnnnd I even have a french speaking person on staff!!! <grins at Grazzt>
And yet you require everyone else to speak "French". That's the problem.
That's not true. We only require that the contest sponsor posts rules in both english and french (our 2 official languages) so that any resident can read the rules.
Do you think, then, that they are posting the rules in every other language? Only Quebec seems so rabid about this.
I'm checking with our legal department about that. . becuause I'd really love to open up our contests to canadian residents as well :) Annnnnnd I even have a french speaking person on staff!!! <grins at Grazzt>
I then lodged an anonymous complaint against myself (because you won't be investigated in these kinds of matters unless someone complains about you).
I made sure to break every rule in the book with this contest and the reply I got from authorities was that there were no grounds for prosecution.
Fact of the matter is, specially with online stuff (cyber police is a joke), they just can't handle everything, so they concentrate on the ones that try to profit from it.
lol amazon did something like that also?? whats the point of asking a math problem? is it to make sure the person has atleast a high school education :eek:
No, in the Wii case, it's to make sure people aren't running automatic scripts to auto-buy a Wii the instant that it became available, which both hammers the site and prevents others from having a fair chance.
Besides, we know Canadians don't speak French anyway...
Exactly !
They think they speak French, but what they actually speak is this kind of strange language with a weird accent that sometimes bear some similarities with French, but noone in France can understand what a Canadian dude is saying :D
Just teasing, DM ;)
I'm checking with our legal department about that. . becuause I'd really love to open up our contests to canadian residents as well :) Annnnnnd I even have a french speaking person on staff!!! <grins at Grazzt>
Besides, we know Canadians don't speak French anyway...
Exactly !
They think they speak French, but what they actually speak is this kind of strange language with a weird accent that sometimes bear some similarities with French, but noone in France can understand what a Canadian dude is saying :D
Just teasing, DM ;)
English folks don't understand half of what I say in english, so why would I be surprised that you **** French can't understand my french !!! J'te taquine mon ti-pit !
To Shrimpstoo : Don't mind Elro and I bickering at each other, it's just what we do. Remember, we are trained professionals so you kids should not try this kind of stuff.
Oh, and by the way, those math questions are of elementary school level. Some companies just outright abuse the **** and have equations like : (1+1)*2/1 = ???
I remember on the old cereal boxes when I was a kid they used to give us some interesting ones like : 495-3*63+3600/2 = ???
I then lodged an anonymous complaint against myself (because you won't be investigated in these kinds of matters unless someone complains about you).
I made sure to break every rule in the book with this contest and the reply I got from authorities was that there were no grounds for prosecution.
Former Community Manager Ash once banned me from these boards because I called myself a bot on these boards.
Once I prooved to him (via RL e-mail) that the char I was torturing on the boards was one of my own, he laughed and said : Of course, you are unbanned.
Told me later on it was his most surreal moment as a community manager.
I then lodged an anonymous complaint against myself (because you won't be investigated in these kinds of matters unless someone complains about you).
I made sure to break every rule in the book with this contest and the reply I got from authorities was that there were no grounds for prosecution.
dark u are the awesomest.
You missed the time DM accused himself of being a bot and Ash (the old community coordinator) couldn't decide whether or not to ban him; since public bot accusations merited a ban in those days.
You missed the time DM accused himself of being a bot and Ash (the old community coordinator) couldn't decide whether or not to ban him; since public bot accusations merited a ban in those days.
Elro you are the awesomest !
But I beat you to the punch, and my info was much better.
Quebec requires companies to follow some unique rules when offering their residents online contests – only one of which is presenting all the contest copy and Official Rules both in English and French. We love throwing contests for our community, but unfortunately we don’t have all the extra time and bandwidth required to follow the out-of-the-ordinary rules Quebec and other countries make us follow in order to involve their residents.
Russia is not part of the European Union, so players from that country are also ineligible to participate.
Thank you to everyone who is interested in the wallpaper contest! I am looking forward to all of the entries. :)
Trinidad has the sun, can't have the contest too! Nerf Trinidad!
Well I still don't understand why Russians can't do the contest. Are they really all bots? :)
*hides*
I'm sure contests will open up for Russians eventually (guess they need to do some paper work and work out the laws first). AFAIK this is the first contest that Europeans can participate in - and it's even only for countries that are in the European Union.
That's like saying you're half pregnant (*runs and hides... I'm joking, I'm joking!!!!! :D )
I swear Im half quebecer! :D
Its all my mom's fault!!!
When I cross the boarder/river I start talking like "J'te taquine mon ti-pit " and "ye plein d'marde".
When I come back to the other side of the boarder/river I start talking in fran-anglais (a french-english mix where we switch from english to french to english again 5 times in 1 single sentence! )
or in engish