Quote Originally Posted by BeerOps View Post
I do get DarkCntry's points though. While it my be expensive to implement applicable rules for other countries, we are funding that exact thing by subscribing to this game and/or buying from the LOTRO Store are we not?
Factoring in the cost of subscription, the cost of purchasing TP and other store-based objects, it still doesn't reach the requirements to fund the ability to administer contests internationally.

Figure this, Australia alone charges a fee for each region to obtain a permit, each of those regions each have guidelines and standards to follow. Canada is similar, places like Quebec actually have outlawed a lot of contests like this and to make a contest feasible to run in these areas requires so much more than money.

Hell, it's one of the reasons even large international companies (see: Sony for example) don't have very many international contests, and even the ones that do hold a lot of caveats for winners in various areas of the globe.