- Grand Prize (1 winner) - All expenses-paid trip for 2 to Minecon 2011 in Las Vegas (including airfare from the nearest major airport, a room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, a food stipend, and tickets to the convention).
- First Place (4 winners) - Intel Solid State Hard Drive
- Second Place (8 winners) - Logitech Gaming Headset
- Third Place (10 winners) - C418's Minecraft album, Volume Alpha
- Fourth Place (20 winners) - Curse T-shirt
Entering the contest is really easy - just sign up for a Curse Premium membership! Premium users can submit a sweepstakes entry here - benefits of Premium membership include:
- Ad-free MinecraftForum experience - No annoying or intrusive ads
- Premium only beta key giveaways - Periodically, Curse gives away exclusive beta keys to only our Premium members
- Premium sweepstakes - Like the Minecon 2011 sweepstakes, Curse is constantly running Premium sweepstakes and giving away amazing loot to our premium members
- Support MinecraftForum and MinecraftWiki - support your community and help us develop new features for the websites you love
Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity - take a look!
We would like to show our appreciation to Intel for their generosity in providing the solid-state drives, and Logitech for their copious contribution of headsets. Thanks, guys!
Why should we bother with curse premium when they can't handle their own network of forums, every one I got to runs terribly. Thanks for nothing on this one guys. Curse couldn't sell me a premium account for a penny, not worth it.
See my modified post above.
Well I guess that's ok but I don't think Curse.com has any right to ask for money, that don't have the fundamentals working for anything on their network, GW2Guru is the only one that doesn't lock up on me and spit strange SQL errors at me, YET that is, when Gw2 is released we'll see that change too.
These issues certainly aren't stemming from my end they are half assing their services.
The lottery is gambling and you must be over 18 year's old to BUY a ticket. If Curse had age verification and prevented people who didn't qualify from entering, that would be different. But as stated above, they provided a way to enter without paying. If they did "lottery style" falling under gambling, they would have to pay all sorts of taxes and be applicable to laws of specific states which prevent people from doing online gambling etc.
This simply isn't the case. We don't acknowledge or return the entries because people are all over this and we get a ton of them, we just don't have the man power. Not including these folks would be very illegal and not worth our jobs, the potential lawsuits, etc.
I literally have a giant stack of envelopes on my desk from the Blizzcon contest. Each one of these people was included in the drawing to be randomly selected. As the rules state, everyone has the same chance of winning and I personally ran the selection process. Non-Premium members were among the winners.
As an aside:
Many people even decorated their envelopes or included fun notes. While this didn't help their chances of winning it did make the process of receiving the entries each day an enjoyable one. Many people here in the office would ask me if I got any cool drawings or stickers that day and we really appreciated the folks that had fun with it.
What I'm trying to say is, with the right attitude you can submit an entry and hope for the best, some of you may even turn up winners. While I can understand the skepticism try to understand that we are doing this the right way and keeping it fair for everyone that is an eligible entrant.
That is good to hear. Thank you for addressing my concerns!
because annoying and intrusive ads always work the best.. everyone knows that..
Because we are a US company the costs consist of a minor inclusion on a tax form we already fill out. European countries want as much as thousands of dollars to run a contest in their country and some add even more fees to companies that aren't based in that country.
With (according to Wikipedia) 50 countries in Europe alone we cannot afford to run the contest for everyone. Throw in the aforementioned red tape and it would be (not kidding) a decade before we had permission to run contests in all the European nations and by that time the rules would have changed on so many that we'd be starting over.
Again, I made every effort to include non-US residents but it is just impossible. Like, Ethan Hunt would not choose to accept this mission.
Edit:
The most constructive feedback I can give you is to get involved in your nation's politics. Find out why they are making it so difficult for companies like Curse to run sweepstakes and, if you still think it is BS, work to change the law. Unfortunately that is not something we have in our power to do, but you do.
"Open to legal residents of the United States including the District of Columbia who are thirteen (13) years of age or older as of date of entry and have a valid, registered member account at Curse.com"
What happened?
What happened is we put in the wrong date for the age cutoff O_O Oops. Should be fixed now, and thanks for bringing this to our attention.