I think the Grand Prize winner should be able to remove a few of the 349348384 sub forums on this site and make minecraftforums.net great like it used to be.
I think the 1st and on prizes should be a bit better, I mean the grand prize is amazing, but all they can do for first is an SSD? It better be 1TB! Those things are only $80 for a 60GB. And for 3rd place, C418's album? It costs just as much to enter the contest as it does to buy the album! (Same deal for the t-shirt). C'Mon guys, make those prizes better! 1st should be a whole gaming PC, not just the SSD. 2nd should be maybe the headset and $100 for steam. 3rd place should be $50 for steam AND the album. 4th place could then just be a Minecraft gift code.
So see what I mean? This contest could be much better for those who will win the lower prizes!
yeah kinda sucky that its only US.. thats probably only like 2/5 minecraft forum users and its even less likely that they will become premium, oh well hopefully they will do some non US contests too
And feel free to notice that there is now a premium sub. link on the forums toolbar under home. Seems as though curse is just having their way with this site.
also if people actually had a look at it and complaining about its illegal having to purchase something to enter a competition read the fine print, it says you have to be a premium member to enter the competition meaning its seperate and also that non premium members can enter too
(ii) Mail-in Entries. If you are a non-Premium member of the Site, to enter for free by U.S. mail, send your full name, address, daytime phone number, date of birth, and Curse.com account name to: Curse, Inc., Win A Trip To MineCon 2011, 351 California Street, Suite 1450, San Francisco, CA 94104. The entry must be postmarked no later than the last day of the Sweepstakes Period, and received by Sponsor within five (5) business days following the end of the Sweepstakes Period.
Sorry to those who have probably already said this just stating the obvious that people should read the fine print
Do people not get that you DON'T have to pay you either have to have a premium account or mail in. You are not paying for the entry you are paying for the account, which you may just be paying for to get an entry.
Need more space for my sig and if i helped you then be sure to press the green + button near the right corner of my post,it's like saying thanks but better :D.
Do people not get that you DON'T have to pay you either have to have a premium account or mail in. You are not paying for the entry you are paying for the account, which you may just be paying for to get an entry.
Snail mail is not free. I don't need to send in bills through the mail anymore either, I have no real reason to buy envelopes / stamps as such. I also don't write letters.
HEY HEY HEY. Curse people! In order to get into this sweepstakes, we have to pay for a membership?! DUDE, that's ****ing BS!!!!! I suggest you change that NOW............
If you are just doing this to get money out of it, you should just take it down.
I live in America and this is just an outrage. Honestly, this seems more like Curse advertising their website more than the contest. I hate Curse, and when the forum forced me to make a Curse account to log in is when it started.
I would enter the contest the free way (especially since they don't tell you about it), but now I just don't want to. I'd rather get my own ticket, so I know Curse can't ruin it in any way.
What about your 'friends' in Australia or Asia? The cost to fly to vegas from around to US is what? a few hundred bucks? From Australia it is over a thousand. Oh well. Next year perhaps.
You all may hate me for saying this, but... I am okay with this. The business hoops they would have to jump through and the sheer amount of money they would have to pay to pay for an international flight would just be too much for them. Charging a fee to enter the sweepstakes IS a load of crap, but from a business perspective it isn't stupid. Hell, I gave them my money. I figure, Almost everyone else is either out of the country, under 18, or pissed off at Curse for pulling this. Sounds like better odds for someone like me, and paying five bucks for the chance to win a trip to vegas seems pretty worth it to me.
If you are a non-Premium member of the Site, to enter for free by U.S. mail, send your full name, address, daytime phone number, date of birth, and Curse.com account name to: Curse, Inc., Win A Trip To MineCon 2011, 351 California Street, Suite 1450, San Francisco, CA 94104.
Nice of them to give us an electronic option. They are hoping no one will use snail mail.
There are ads on MCForum?
Their "f-word" is... FUN. Not allowed.
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I think the 1st and on prizes should be a bit better, I mean the grand prize is amazing, but all they can do for first is an SSD? It better be 1TB! Those things are only $80 for a 60GB. And for 3rd place, C418's album? It costs just as much to enter the contest as it does to buy the album! (Same deal for the t-shirt). C'Mon guys, make those prizes better! 1st should be a whole gaming PC, not just the SSD. 2nd should be maybe the headset and $100 for steam. 3rd place should be $50 for steam AND the album. 4th place could then just be a Minecraft gift code.
So see what I mean? This contest could be much better for those who will win the lower prizes!
There are many who wouldn't have a chance to get there without paying really much ...
http://www.youtube.com/user/acyclone06
(ii) Mail-in Entries. If you are a non-Premium member of the Site, to enter for free by U.S. mail, send your full name, address, daytime phone number, date of birth, and Curse.com account name to: Curse, Inc., Win A Trip To MineCon 2011, 351 California Street, Suite 1450, San Francisco, CA 94104. The entry must be postmarked no later than the last day of the Sweepstakes Period, and received by Sponsor within five (5) business days following the end of the Sweepstakes Period.
Sorry to those who have probably already said this just stating the obvious that people should read the fine print
http://www.youtube.com/user/acyclone06
Also, I lol'd at ad-free.
Curse ye curse!.
Snail mail is not free. I don't need to send in bills through the mail anymore either, I have no real reason to buy envelopes / stamps as such. I also don't write letters.
If you are just doing this to get money out of it, you should just take it down.
I would enter the contest the free way (especially since they don't tell you about it), but now I just don't want to. I'd rather get my own ticket, so I know Curse can't ruin it in any way.
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Khaddo A.
Nice of them to give us an electronic option. They are hoping no one will use snail mail.