Same for me, token vanished

We could reread it a hundred times, wouldn't make your claims any more true. Legal difficulties are a convenient excuse, nothing more, since EA is more than capable of launching other contest outside of the US. Repeating the same dribble about makebelief legal nightmares won't make it any more true, my hoi polloi friend.

Well, actually he has a point. Or in which way is it healthy for a game to have too many low pop servers?

Shame that people tend to ignore this when they argue about legal nightmares and whatnot.

Wether you do it on purpose or not, the thing is you are confusing "difficult" and "more work intensive" with impossible. Hence your point is invalid.

Legality issues that do not make it impossible. It comes down to a choice for the company to make, which they did and me of plenty of other people take displeasure in it. See, you and I will never find common ground here, because you are satisfied with legality issues making a contest not feasible. I am not, because they always have alternatives. Matter of fact, I am quite angry with repeatedly getting treated as a second-class customer, a sentiment a lot of the other non-US posters in this thread are sharing. You don't care about that, I get that. But stop trying to sell us your rationalizations as absolutes. EA held contests overseas before and will probably do it again, so your legal argument (while if taken at face value may be enough in your eyes to excuse the companies bad treatment of its non-US customers) is just an excuse. Sure, it is a good one, right up there with "dog ate my homework", but tyvm, I'm not buying any of it. No matter how often you repeat it. As for your sarcasm, you argued along those lines many times in this thread. I know i'm repeating myself, but...hypocrite!

What contract? Bioware was purchased and swallowed by EA and exists these days only really as a brand name.

Why should I, when I have a public forum like this one where I can voice my ever growing displeasure at the preferred treatment US customers are receiving? We are getting shafted with every competition, every downtime, higher subscription fees.The fact that you can't discern between paranoia and anger over preferential treatment of a subset of people that's really not my problem.

Ant that is exactly what I meant ^^

Much like your schoolyard rhetoric, hypocrite ^^ Now cry some more. And my dad can beat up your dad.

They had the option of including non-US subscribers to contests. They chose not to, since this is not (no matter what you repeatedly claim) a legal impossibility. Since what it would take to expand the contest is nothing but money and some effort, and EA launches a multitude of contests outside of the US without problems the whole effort excuse gets rather stale. Which leaves the money, which leads us back to greed. But I don't expect you to understand that, parrots rarely think for themselves.

Recall reading in one of the 1.2 previews something about it being added back into the game as world boss drop. In the article they mentioned Alderaan as the place to go, but it wouldn't surprise me if it didn't make the cut for the 1.2 release.

Because this no gosh darn charity. It is a contest we collectively finance with our subscription fees, but which again favor US customers. We know by now you don't give a ****, so you can save your inane arguing. I might even drop mine, but International Law prevents me from doing so far. Real legal nightmare.

Fixed, yw

Nothing some extra effort couldn't circumvent or a seperate contest under EU and Australian law wouldn't solve. I the end it comes down to the companies greed. Which lies in their nature, but is nothing I have to applaud.