Re: Blizzard selling WoW pets for real money

Matt <mateusz.wojcik@xxxxxxxxx> declared in:
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On 9 Lis, 14:20, Urbin <ur...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok, so it seems that Poland has some very strange laws :-)

Yes, though more probably it's an issue of interpretation - for
example some countries have laws prohibiting organizing competitions
where you have to buy something other than entry fee to enter (as is
the case with Arena Tournaments) or that the company organizing/
selling something must have legal presence in this country.

And it's not only Poland, from European zone only specific countries
can join RAF: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the
Netherlands, UK, Norway, Sweden, Greece, Ireland, Belgium, Spain,
Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Belgium. Other countries and
players with five referrals from the "Recruit A Friend" cannot join
either.

And Denmark is not in the list. That is where I live, to answer the
question Urbin asked.
I tried to contact Blizzard about both the RAF and the Arena tournament
(I am still very sad that I wasn't able to get Murkimus...).
The information I was given, was that Blizzard was more or less
encouraging people to advertise the game, by giving them incentive to
recruit their friends.

That is indeed *interpretable* as unsolicited advertising, and even
though it probably wouldn't cause a reaction, Blizzard opted to stay
on the safe ground, and not make the feature available here (actually
it was briefly available, so something probably did happen in one of
the now excluded countries, to prompt Blizzard to remove access for
players in these countries).

As for the Arena tournament, it was supposedly due to the amount of
randomness involved, which actually makes the tournament interpretable
as gambling. Just as poker-tournaments are not allowed in my country,
due to a high amount of randomness involved in the game, this could be
interpreted as also having too much randomness (crits, procs, etc.).

Even though politicians of the relevant departments have stated that
they don't see a problem, Blizzard has decided to stay on safe ground
and simply not offer the feature.

How does Blizzard lock these features, though? Based on your IP
address? Or based on your address (which they have in order to make
credit card payments)? I assume the latter...

I think I entered country in account data, but don't remember at this
point.

You do indeed enter your country of residence when you create your account.

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