The company Ankama Games, located at 75 boulevard d’Armentières, 59100 Roubaix, France, a simplified company limited by shares, registered in the Register of Commerce and Companies of Roubaix-Tourcoing under the number B 492 360 730, organises a free game without obligation to buy called Guildy pleasures from 4th of March 2010 until 15th of March 2010, 9 A.M. GMT +1.
This game is open to adults and minors (subject to parental consent), provided that national legislation permits, excluding employees of Ankama.
The participants are invited to tell us a story in relation to the MMORPG DOFUS and an existing or imaginary guild. This means - for example - that they can tell us about a certain event they experienced with their guild, or how they met their guild companions. This story can be written as a roleplay story (the character’s point of view).
The stories must be submitted in one of the forums of the following communities:
EN (http://forum.dofus.com/en/) UK (http://forum.dofus.com/uk/) ES (http://forum.dofus.com/es/) DE (http://forum.dofus.com/de/) IT (http://forum.dofus.com/it)
The story must be submitted in the topic created especially for the contest by Ankama.
For all communities except ES, the stories may be up to but no longer than 500 words and must be written in the official language of those forums. Poorly translated texts will be discarded.
For the participants of the community ES, the participants must draw a comic strip of maximum 6 panels, and tell us a story with dialogue bubbles, always in readable spanish. We will appreciate originality, quality, and story.
Each submission must be wholly the original work of the entrant, not be copied from any other source; and be written solely by the entrant. The participants must have a valid DOFUS account on one of the servers of the respective communities.
All participants can only submit stories for a single forum. If Ankama states that a participant has submitted game stories in several forums, his/her stories are discarded.
By submitting an entry to the Contest, each entrant agrees to comply with and be bound by these Official Rules and acknowledges that the decisions of Ankama shall be final and binding in all matters relating to the Contest. The entry must not be in violation of or conflict with the trademark, copyright, rights of privacy, rights of publicity or any other rights, of any kind or nature, of any other person or entity; and not include any language or other content that is indecent, inappropriate, morally objectionable or otherwise unfit for dissemination or broadcast, as determined by the Ankama in its discretion. Entries not satisfying these criteria in any respect will be disqualified without notification.
The following prizes are given out to the winners:
Community EN: 10 premium passes Community UK: 5 premium passes Community ES: 10 premium passes Community DE: 5 premium passes Community IT: 5 premium passes
The Premium Pass allows you to take part in the activities taking place during the 2 days and comes with a bag of collector’s goodies! You’ll benefit immediately, with the choice of the Snow Bow Meow pet (on DOFUS 2.0) or Pingoku pet (available on DOFUS 2.0 and 1.29)!
The winners can claim their prizes at the ticket counter at the entry of the Ankama convention #5. They must provide valid proof of their identity which matches the personal information on the Ankama account used to submit the winning entry.
The winners who are unable to come to the Ankama convention, can decide to have the articles that are given together with the premium pass sent to their address. If the player fails to give a valid address, s/he will not receive any items.
No substitution, cash redemption or transfer of right to receive prizes is permitted, except in the discretion of Ankama, which reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value.
The winners are designed by a jury named by the CCM of each community.
The jury shall evaluate the entries based on the following criteria, weighted equally: originality, creativity, humor, and overall quality of writing. Jury decisions shall be final and binding in all matters related to the winning entries.
The winners grant the organiser the right to use their stories for any promotional means (Publication in the Dofus Manga, on their websites, etc.) without any financial or other reward.
In accordance with article L.27 of the Information and Freedoms act of January 6, 1978, each participant has the right to access, correct or delete personal information held about them, upon submitting a written request addressed to Ankama.
Each winner grants the organiser the right to use their full name, photograph and a brief summary of their place of residence for promotional or editorial purposes without any financial or other reward.
Personal information may be used by Ankama in response to requests resulting from this event, but also in offering its products and those of its partners, unless the participant disagrees.
Participation in this competition implies full acceptance of the rules in full.
Any misrepresentation, attempt to mislead or commit fraud will result in disqualification.
Therefore, Ankama reserves the right to restrict access, to exclude from the game or even prosecute any participant who has defrauded or attempted to do so. Is considered fraudulent:
- to register under a false identity - to register a third party - to submit an entry written by a third party
Ankama will decide any dispute concerning the game and its rules. No telephone or written requests concerning the interpretation or application of the rules herein, the workings of or rules of the game or the list of winners will be answered. Ankama reserves the right, if circumstances dictate it, to shorten, extend, modify or cancel the game herein. The company will not be held liable as a result. Ankama is not responsible for lost, late, illegible, incomplete, damaged, mutilated, misdirected, mis-delivered, or delayed entries, or for technical or human errors or failures of any kind in connection with the submission, transmission, processing or judging of entries.