I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but why aren't there any t-shirts in the grand prize? I mean I'll be happy if I were to win anything, but to me it doesn't make any sense to not put the most useful of prizes in the grand prize. If I were to win the grand prize I'd be extremely happy, but honestly I'd probably get more use out of a t-shirt than I would any of the grand prize stuff.
Damn. Didn't notice it said "swag" until I already entered.
Now hoping I don't win this "swag".
Years and years ago, before the youth of today co-opted the word as their own, swag had a different meaning. Swag meant a group of items gathered from a source, eg: if a person broke into your house and stole your belongings, it would be their "swag", it's from the olden days. When someone says "swag" in the way Sacheverell used it, they're referring to a collection of x themed items. "Minecraft Swag" = Minecraft merchandise.
For the last 20 years or so if someone had said "Minecraft Swag" everyone would have instantly thought "Minecraft Merchandise!", it's only in the last ~3 or 4 years that swag has become the word most teenagers know it as. Sacheverell is an adult (shock horror) so the word has a different meaning to him.
Due to legal restrictions, this giveaway is limited to residents of U.S and Canada residents. Why? Why does North America get to be so privileged? This is unfair to people living outside of the U.S and Canada.
I was thinking about entering until I saw this:
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[color=#333333][font=Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif][background=rgb(242, 248, 251)]Why? Why does North America get to be so privileged? This is unfair to people living outside of the U.S and Canada.[/background][/font][/color]
At least Europe has Gamescom and possibly some other major conventions I don't know of. Australia hardly gets anything cool.
Strange as this might seem, the US legal system has zero bearing on other countries' legal systems, which are what determine where we can run contests. If you are unhappy about it, please let your government know!
It is also not the entire US and Canada
[color=#333333][font=Noto Sans', sans-serif][background=rgb(233, 233, 233)]Residents of Massachusetts and the province of Quebec, Canada are ineligible to enter or win.[/background][/font][/color]
However Sacheverell is partly wrong. US export laws restrict anyone in the US from shipping anything you would win to you if you live in certain areas. There are also a few other legal items as well. The best (and only way) to improve contests such as these to allow more people from across the world to participate is to petition your local governments (by local I am referring to your country), to work with other countries/governments on these types of issues.
However in today's world and economy, things like this just aren't high priority.
Why don't you guys just host the competition IN the UK or elsewhere instead of basing in US?
Send the prize over here and host the competition over here? Same applies elsewhere - it isn't only the Americans and the Canadians who are playing Minecraft..
I was thinking about entering until I saw this: [/background][/font][/color]
[color=#333333][font=Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif][background=rgb(242, 248, 251)]Why? Why does North America get to be so privileged? This is unfair to people living outside of the U.S and Canada.[/background][/font][/color]
At least Europe has Gamescom and possibly some other major conventions I don't know of. Australia hardly gets anything cool.
Why don't you guys just host the competition IN the UK or elsewhere instead of basing in US?
Send the prize over here and host the competition over here? Same applies elsewhere - it isn't only the Americans and the Canadians who are playing Minecraft..
[color=#333333][font=Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif][background=rgb(242, 248, 251)]"Due to legal restrictions, this giveaway is limited to residents of U.S and Canada residents."[/background][/font][/color]
[color=#333333][font=Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif][background=rgb(242, 248, 251)]THIS GAME WAS MADE IN SWEDEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/background][/font][/color]
It's about time someone had a "Due to legal restrictions, this giveaway is limited to residents outside of U.S and Canada residents" giveaway if you ask me. It's always the same thing on, every time, on every website. Oh well.
Ok... Last time guys.... Curse is a US based company, We are restricted by non-US laws to where we can legally run contests. It doesn't matter that Minecraft was developed in Sweden, it doesn't matter that a large portion of the player base is outside the US, we can ONLY offer contest participation legally to US and Canadian residents.
If you wish to see this changed, petition your local government representatives (or have your parents do so) to get the laws changed.
We would LOVE to be able to include everyone!
Now... if you have comments regarding the contest that don't include any of the above, we'd also love to hear it.
SIMPLIFIED/UPDATED POST: Nobody has yet noticed the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy pages were missing. Curse peoples has been informed. I have a new thing to hold against Curse. Issue will probably be solved soon. People who already signed up remain oblivious to the legal text they agreed to (the legal text that wasn't there).
That said, I should point out that the ToS link didn't work for me. I can't go back and retry it now that I've entered the competition, but it looked like a broken link, not an internet hiccup.
No one is blaming you, a giveaway for some is better than no one at all, and personally my comment was more of a joke than anything else. But while it is apparently frustrating for you to hear these comments, it's a lot more frustrating to be on the other end, and I don't see what the big deal is with people venting this frustration to be honest.
You are right, it is frustrating... for all of us. We (Curse) would love to run contests that everyone can participate in, but we are a US based company. That's not going to change. We have no influence or control over the laws outside of the US, but we are required to follow them. My frustration in hearing it over and over again comes from the fact that it HAS been addressed both by Sachervelle and I in this thread, multiple times. It makes me feel like I'm just wasting my time even trying to address it once, if everyone is going to just keep on about it.
Curse staff are interested in community feedback. We want to read your comments, we try to address your concerns, But once they have been addressed, I don't see the point in beating the subject into the ground.
I personally think no giveaway would be better than a limited giveaway since the wiki and forums cater to a lot of people outside the range.
I understand how this could be frustrating for people unable to enter the contest, but it's not reasonable to expect a company not to run any promotional events unless everyone can enter. I mean, the same logic could be used to say that Minecon shouldn't exist, because not everyone's able to attend.
Even when limited in scope by geography and politics, programs like this tend to target at least one of a company's biggest markets, and generate goodwill and brand recognition (sorry for the jargon; I'm a business owner myself). Limited results are better than no results.
For the people living outside North America... couldn't you theoretically enter using your account and an American/Canadian friend's contact info? Then have them send the prizes your way if you win, and reimburse them the cost of postage?
Not that I'm trying to increase the number of competitors or anything. In fact, ignore what I just said, I'm crazy.
Strange as this might seem, the US legal system has zero bearing on other countries' legal systems, which are what determine where we can run contests. If you are unhappy about it, please let your government know!
Please note that the legal restrictions are not being placed by the US legal system, they are being placed by the other countries. If you wish to see them changed, you need to speak to your own government representatives.to get them changed. Our hands are tied by them.
After the replies with the above comments, I looked into what I could find about this in a websearch and people have contests held all over the world all the time. TV even proves this. You can see things like world wide olympics and other types of world wide competition events. So where I am confused is your stating that you have to follow US Laws.. but its not the US Laws that are restricting you ? I'm not understanding what is clearly a double standard problem here. And apparently and very obviously, no one here gets it either from all the replies I have been reading.
Can you share what laws it is that is binding you to this ? Because for me to bring this up to Rick Scott, the Governor of FL, I need to know what I am to ask him to look into.
I also have Senator Bill Nelson's Ear at this email address as his group and I have spoken through email more then once ( Never met him personally ). The email address is here in case you need to chat with him [email protected]
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AdminYears and years ago, before the youth of today co-opted the word as their own, swag had a different meaning. Swag meant a group of items gathered from a source, eg: if a person broke into your house and stole your belongings, it would be their "swag", it's from the olden days. When someone says "swag" in the way Sacheverell used it, they're referring to a collection of x themed items. "Minecraft Swag" = Minecraft merchandise.
For the last 20 years or so if someone had said "Minecraft Swag" everyone would have instantly thought "Minecraft Merchandise!", it's only in the last ~3 or 4 years that swag has become the word most teenagers know it as. Sacheverell is an adult (shock horror) so the word has a different meaning to him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swagman
http://www.game-swag.net/
Due to legal restrictions, this giveaway is limited to residents of U.S and Canada residents.
Why? Why does North America get to be so privileged? This is unfair to people living outside of the U.S and Canada.
Still can't believe the restrictions people place on only the General US.
Why do US Get all the fun stuff! UK Is crap :C
At least Europe has Gamescom and possibly some other major conventions I don't know of. Australia hardly gets anything cool.
For part of it see below:
It is also not the entire US and Canada
However Sacheverell is partly wrong. US export laws restrict anyone in the US from shipping anything you would win to you if you live in certain areas. There are also a few other legal items as well. The best (and only way) to improve contests such as these to allow more people from across the world to participate is to petition your local governments (by local I am referring to your country), to work with other countries/governments on these types of issues.
However in today's world and economy, things like this just aren't high priority.
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Curse PremiumSend the prize over here and host the competition over here? Same applies elsewhere - it isn't only the Americans and the Canadians who are playing Minecraft..
*reads it thoroughly*
BUT I DON"T LIVE IN THE US/CANADA
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Ok... Last time guys.... Curse is a US based company, We are restricted by non-US laws to where we can legally run contests. It doesn't matter that Minecraft was developed in Sweden, it doesn't matter that a large portion of the player base is outside the US, we can ONLY offer contest participation legally to US and Canadian residents.
If you wish to see this changed, petition your local government representatives (or have your parents do so) to get the laws changed.
We would LOVE to be able to include everyone!
Now... if you have comments regarding the contest that don't include any of the above, we'd also love to hear it.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Wiki
Actually, I did.
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Curse PremiumYou are right, it is frustrating... for all of us. We (Curse) would love to run contests that everyone can participate in, but we are a US based company. That's not going to change. We have no influence or control over the laws outside of the US, but we are required to follow them. My frustration in hearing it over and over again comes from the fact that it HAS been addressed both by Sachervelle and I in this thread, multiple times. It makes me feel like I'm just wasting my time even trying to address it once, if everyone is going to just keep on about it.
Curse staff are interested in community feedback. We want to read your comments, we try to address your concerns, But once they have been addressed, I don't see the point in beating the subject into the ground.
Continue on.....
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Curse PremiumI understand how this could be frustrating for people unable to enter the contest, but it's not reasonable to expect a company not to run any promotional events unless everyone can enter. I mean, the same logic could be used to say that Minecon shouldn't exist, because not everyone's able to attend.
Even when limited in scope by geography and politics, programs like this tend to target at least one of a company's biggest markets, and generate goodwill and brand recognition (sorry for the jargon; I'm a business owner myself). Limited results are better than no results.
For the people living outside North America... couldn't you theoretically enter using your account and an American/Canadian friend's contact info? Then have them send the prizes your way if you win, and reimburse them the cost of postage?
Not that I'm trying to increase the number of competitors or anything. In fact, ignore what I just said, I'm crazy.
After the replies with the above comments, I looked into what I could find about this in a websearch and people have contests held all over the world all the time. TV even proves this. You can see things like world wide olympics and other types of world wide competition events. So where I am confused is your stating that you have to follow US Laws.. but its not the US Laws that are restricting you ? I'm not understanding what is clearly a double standard problem here. And apparently and very obviously, no one here gets it either from all the replies I have been reading.
Can you share what laws it is that is binding you to this ? Because for me to bring this up to Rick Scott, the Governor of FL, I need to know what I am to ask him to look into.
I also have Senator Bill Nelson's Ear at this email address as his group and I have spoken through email more then once ( Never met him personally ). The email address is here in case you need to chat with him [email protected]
His website : http://www.billnelson.senate.gov
So bottom line, what laws are all of us supposed to be asking them to change ?