Blizzards ART Contest: WTF?

You all know that {me <3 Blizzard} & Starcraft4Life, but sometimes, they deserve a good bashing.

On July 25 2006 17:33 Bill307 wrote:
What is the problem here?

It makes perfect sense that the countries to which they can send the prize money is a limited list. And even if it's not obvious (to us) why some countries are excluded, Blizzard most likely has good reasons for each one. Does anyone honestly think they are keeping countries off the list just to be evil?

Well, apparently Physician does. The way he rants about this is particularly dumb. Example:


For what? For doing something that has a perfectly good explanation that any sane person can see?

Jeezus, I'd hate to be Physician's wife. I'd come home from work an hour late because of an accident on the highway, and discover that he flipped out and told everyone I'm a cheating slut.

On July 25 2006 19:21 maoam wrote:
Why? Other countries buy their products. Prizes of about $1000 are peanuts to them.

On July 25 2006 20:08 maoam wrote:
I see, so it's the legal issues involved in these countries. That makes sense then.

On July 25 2006 20:34 miNi wrote:
It's not relaly legal issues,
It just takes a lot of effort to set up a contest for every single country, so Blizzard made it available to English speaking nations.

On July 25 2006 05:47 Jyvblamo wrote:
Why not Quebec. o.O

On July 25 2006 20:08 mr.bad wrote:
Quebec is an awesome metal place but some things about it are stupid. The "rules must be written in french" thing is just one of many examples. For instance Quebec radio stations MUST play a certain (large) percentage of music from quebec, stores are allowed to have a sign in english if they have a bigger french one, then there was that whole thing about video games that HAD to have french instruction booklets even though it was just one crazy bitch in politics that never played a game in her life that wanted this to happen.