Guild Wars 2

Hey.

I was looking into the GW2 Emblem Contest, and reading through the rules, and I was very disheartened to see the regional restrictions for entries. Anyone not living in one of the countries or areas listed in the rules is apparently not eligible to enter the contest.

https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/contests/Guild-Emblem-Contest-2015-Rules-EN.pdf

I’m from South Africa, and we’re not listed, which is surprising considering the sheer amount of South African players I see playing GW2. It’s a pity because I had a really good design idea for a guild emblem that I wanted to submit, but now I am apparently not allowed to do so. I could, of course, give it to a friend in my guild to submit on my behalf, but then he gets the rewards and the credit associated with the design if it somehow happens to make it into the top five.

I just wanted to know why there are these limitations, and why some players get penalized simply for their country of residence. Even if prizes cannot be delivered to everyone it would still be nice to simply be able to take part for fun, or even just for the digital rewards, etc.

Signed: Disgruntled player.

The reason for being resricted is most likely a legal issues in your country over how these types of contests are allowed or run. Also it could be some sort of import issue that may make it difficult or impossible to get the prizes sent to you if you did win. For what ever reason they are not deliberately denying you to enter the contest there are several countries that can’t participate for legal reason. I’m sure Anet would like to have everyone in the world be able to participate but with governments and lawyers in the way, it’s not possible.