Generally area restrictions on contests have to do with the large variances in each countries (or even state/regions within countries) laws regarding the winning of prizes with a cash value.

Because it can be hard to comply with everyones laws restrictions are generally put in place to vastly simplify the running of contests.

I don't know if thats what's happening here or not but I've seen that given as an explanation by many people running contests for why they had to exclude even some states from otherwise US wide contests.

The reason is very simple: Laws for sweepstakes are very strict et state specific and it’s impossible to create and administrate sweepstakes that can comply with all international laws.

Even big companies don’t do it. I like the answer given by the official Star Wars www.starwars.com site as an example:

‘We certainly understand that Star Wars fandom is not limited by national boundaries. We know there are millions of fans around the world just in the United States and we regret not being able to allow everyone to participate in our giveaways.

In order for us to hold a giveaway or sweepstakes on our site we must comply with the legal requirements in every territory in which the contest is available (on the Web, this means virtually the entire planet). However, it is simply beyond the scope of our group to comply with contest laws around the world. Thus, our posted rules satisfy the requirements for U.S. participants only.

When Canada and other countries simplify their requirements for on-line contests, we will be able to allow our giveaways to cross international borders.’

I'm having this issue myself now, since FFXIVCore.com is part of the Curse Network, it means I cannot have contest winners outside of the US .  And I'm Swedish.

So... you basically have the same contest twice in a row but the second time around you give away a slightly better one? Kinda... odd.

That being said, woo, thanks for the free copy.

Fingers crossed on this one. I've been wanting to try Aion but don't have the money to shell out for at least a month.

Wonder how many people created extra accounts here on MMORPG to try to get mor chances :P.

Now I remeber why I don't acually frequent forums that much. I can't beleive that peeps are acually whining about what countries are involved in this give away! Like there is even a chance to win?  8 copys?  Might as well try to jump to the moon. But heck, I'm not complaining, just pointing out the chances to win are almost nonexistant, so why would anyone complain as to not getting an opportunity to enter? These must be the same types that complain about paying  $15 a month for more hours of  more entertainment they could ever possably hope for, for the same amount of money.  <sigh> some people were born to whine.

Game till you bleed

Originally posted by Kram59

Now I remeber why I don't acually frequent forums that much. I can't beleive that peeps are acually whining about what countries are involved in this give away! Like there is even a chance to win?  8 copys?  Might as well try to jump to the moon. But heck, I'm not complaining, just pointing out the chances to win are almost nonexistant, so why would anyone complain as to not getting an opportunity to enter? These must be the same types that complain about paying  $15 a month for more hours of  more entertainment they could ever possably hope for, for the same amount of money.  <sigh> some people were born to whine.

 

Game till you bleed

Hey, I was not Whining at mmorpg.com, just NCsoft.
lol iv already got the game so it does not make a difference to me, just be nice to be included.....this is the second Aion giveaway for NA and Canada only

Originally posted by Andraaxx

Originally posted by 0over0

Originally posted by Vinterkrig

what happened to the other free aion give away?

 

Indeed, I was wondering the same thing.

 

http://www.mmorpg.com/contests/aion_promo.cfm the other one is over and the winners have been selected

Thanks for that update!

Wish when a contest ended they would make it more noticeable.

Why not an european direct download version giveaway ?

Originally posted by SgtFrog

What about DSL,  i know for a fact they are in Egypt. my cousin works there :P

Not sure if you meant DSL or DHL, but we have DSL since 2001 or 2002. I've always had a subcription to it since then also.

Ahhhh! more goodies!

It seems the contest page is broken. Will this effect our bonus tickets?

EDIT: Someone fixed it, thanks!

You guys rock!!! I just got my box in the mail and it looks gorgeous. Cannot wait to spread my wings. Thanks.

p.s. I never win anything, so this make it just doubly cool.