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Aussies miss out again.

We get shafted on most things. Worst being games refused classifications.

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Don't complain about it here. Blizzard can't do anything for you. Write to your local member of parliament. State in regards to the sweepstakes, Federal regarding the censorship. Even if you're not old enough to vote, you may well be before the next election, and MPs know how valuable it is to make a good impression on young people (locking in a lifetime of support).

I find it surprising that Blizzard's legal team cannot work with whoever orchestrates these competitions to make them legally workable in most countries at the same time (i.e. in this case Australia being excluded).

I really have no clever thing to add despite my best trys to come up with one, it doesn't seem i've been playing for that long. 5 years has passed and millions of people have spent hundreds of hours each in some cases wasting/grinding away at a fictional character on a computer screen...but it sure has been fun at times.

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My CE was 1 week late on delivery. And so I created my account Dec 2. :/

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My EB sold my preorder copy to someone else, put me on the end of the waiting list and didn't call me in to pick it until the day Blizzard asked stores to stop selling the game because the servers just couldn't handle any more people.

Considering they called me to come pick it up a game I was supposed to have 2 months prior, had me drive 30 minutes to the store, and then gave me a line about how they couldn't sell me the game for another 2 months.. Well, thats the only time I've threatened a clerk.

Good news; it worked, regardless of the fact I'm not at all imposing. Bad news; still not eligible for the contest :(

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For that part, I think you are right, I was just looking at the picks for this week in my previous statement, heh.

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You got my hopes up :(

Anyway we could get that part extended a few days? Eh? Eh? c'moooon...

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I really have no clever thing to add despite my best trys to come up with one, it doesn't seem i've been playing for that long. 5 years has passed and millions of people have spent hundreds of hours each in some cases wasting/grinding away at a fictional character on a computer screen...but it sure has been fun at times.

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"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times"?! you stupid monkey!


Nov 23rd here, with a CE. Good luck to all! *fingers crossed*

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For that part, I think you are right, I was just looking at the picks for this week in my previous statement, heh.

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Though someone else posted it above me, I'd also like to reiterate the request for a bit of leniency on that last date. Logging in on the 23rd in 2004 was literally impossible for a lot of us who had the game and were trying.

Sweet. Account Created: November 23, 2004 1:04:08 AM

I wasnt in beta though so I'm not as old as some of you :P

can we have large access aware option as a reward that would be a nice gift?

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You got my hopes up :(

Anyway we could get that part extended a few days? Eh? Eh? c'moooon...

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But in all seriousness, is there any way we could extend that to the 24th or 25th? There are apparently a lot of people who couldn't even register if they wanted to because of the website lag on the 23rd even if they got the game at release.

Well with all the "I quits" being posted from having to create a battle.net account, I might actually have an opportunity to win :>)

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Well with all the "I quits" being posted from having to create a battle.net account, I might actually have an opportunity to win :>)

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You mean people actually quit when they say they quit? I threatened to quit once (something about pvp for a holiday achievement...I know, I'm lame). I actually did it too. But I felt so bad after I resubbed before my time expired :P

I feel a little silly complaining about a free sweepstakes, but given the actual day of release, isn't requiring a day one account more than a little draconian?

Pre-order customer here, but the servers were disintegrated by the time I got home from work on the 23rd. And I couldn't install on the 24th because I had to travel for Thanksgiving. Family events far from my computer meant I wasn't able to install until Monday.

I had to make a special trip to pick up two copies of the game to make sure I got my Collector's Edition before they gave it to someone else, but for the grievous sin of living in a different state than family, I am not eligible for the big prize.

Bad form, Blizzard. :p

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because I had to travel for Thanksgiving

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And people make fun of us Canadians for having Thanksgiving in October. Well who's laughing now eh? Who's laughing now?! (not the Quebecers I guess, but ya...)

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Well who's laughing now eh?

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Me. hehe.

Bah, 15 hours late on that 11/23 date :(

once again people outside the US miss out even tho a lot of us have played as long as the Americans GG Blizzard . . .

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once again people outside the US miss out even tho a lot of us have played as long as the Americans GG Blizzard . . .

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That's not Bliz' fault, that's international sweepstakes laws. I'd love to enter the house sweepstakes they host in New Zealand but Americans are out of luck.

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My CE was 1 week late on delivery. And so I created my account Dec 2. :/

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Yeah, my account was activated on 30Nov04 :(

No new laptop for you or me /cry

I'll bet there are a ton of ppl who activated 24Nov, 2004 who are gonna be pissed, lol