Can You Cut It As An ISA Recruit?

When it comes to “offer goods” it’s all about the uk… let me refresh you guys mind with something:

EUROPE isn’t only uk, in fact uk it’s just tiny bit of land planted on the sea in all the EUROPE territory.

Get that straight please!!!

I’ve never played Killzone 1, Killzone Liberation 1 & 2, only played Killzone 2, so that leaves me out of this competition

although i would like to see a pictre of this real helghast weapon please

enrolled.. I really hope this is not limited to GB as I know see stated above the post. I want a chance to win that ticket to E3 and most of all just compete..

Ok I missed that..

Please note: recruits must be 18 or over. The Live Fire and E3 Prize is only open to UK residents.

I am sorry if I offend anyone but this really has to F stop!! Please divide Europe up in more regions or open up contests and services for us all. Sometimes it seems Sony is treating GB as an über country!

Really guys GB is not the only country in the EU thanks again for letting the majority of the EU down.

Hooray, being excluded once again is awesome!

@1: We’re getting used to it… Didn’t they say that they would have competitions open for EVERYONE??? I think so…

Home has been down for nearly THREE WEEKS in Scandinavia. Sony doensn’t care, but a lot of ppl have paid for content on Home, so they can’t just say “oh, but it’s free…”

Scandinavians probably pay the most for Sony HW/SW, and this is the thanks we get???

I asked a local store if I could preorder NGP after Sony had released info about it, but it was too soon. Now I doubt I will buy it at all. They don’t care about Scandinavians, so why should I get it? And we won’t get the Comics store either…

Shame on Sony!

Not to forget this is a dutch based developer.. Give us all the chance to compete and win..!! This really is getting lame!

Guys, it clearly states at the top “Countries: GB”

Just like the issues with the PSone releases, there’s loads of different laws and regulations with regards to things like this. Every country has to be treated different. SCEE UK are putting their money into this scheme, You’re going to have to live with it.

Yeah you got that right SCEUK cause the UK is what it’s all about in EUROPE..

@8: Yes, we will have to live with it. But when they refer to non-existing laws it gets ridiculous . They did that when UK residents could win that nice car… Either they (the legal department) are lying, or they don’t know what they are talking about.

Also, if they upset us enough, we won’t allow ourselves to get upset when the next generation of consoles is out. We don’t like paying the most, and still always get left out.

Sony: When will you fix Home for Scandinavia? It’s been almost THREE WEEKS now… (Oh, wrong thread for Home? Pass it on the right persons then!!!)

I’m sure they’d open it up for the whole of Europe if they could. They must have their reasons, although for the life of me I don’t know what they could be.

As it’d involve a trip to the US, maybe it’s something to do with plane tickets or visa control or something.

@LAClennell
Why would not playing the previous games leave you out of this competition?
It doesn’t say you need existing knowledge of the series, just that there will be a few ARG-type games.
Go on, enrol!

@11: Sure they have reasons! Maybe even valid ones! But it would be VERY nice, then, if they could have competitions available only in e.g. Scandinavia. But that will NEVER happen.

Sony, here’s a slogan you can use in Scandinavia (for FREE):

Pay more, get less! (And it’s 100% true too!)

That my point you hit the nail on the head you said SCEE-UK over the internet i also see SCEE-AU sony of australia Sony-uk so SCEE Stuggles to get Ps1 classics No bloody wonder.

We have a region SCEE within a region SCEE-UK SCEE-AU aren’t we suppose to be 1 region SCEE every time i boot up a ps1 game it says SCEE.

i always say this but it time to put down SCEE disband it i don’t expect a response SCEI Makes the rules & 2 of it‘s favourite region SCEA & SCEJ.

Probably because this is organised by SCUK and not SCEE?

I mean SCEUK

@almighty-slayer

I wonder if it works like that. If it does I think it is stupid to post it on the blog cause everyone knows what happens then.

@almighty that the problem We never use the words SCEUK always SCEE but you right SCEUK does exist so why dont we use that as SCEE is useless, disband it let each region get they ps1 etc onto the store or god shakes a untied sony.

at the top it doesn’t say SCEUK or SCEE

Can’t we just have a SCEW (Sony Computer Entertainment World) Unified stores.. all services everywhere open contests to everyone. I know who we need Martin Luther King – I Have A Dream!!!

@6 and @10: At least you can read the only Swedish review of Killzone 3 at Eurogamer.se – http://www.eurogamer.se/articles/2011-02-05-killzone-3-recension

It’s a start at least

Sweet as a nut

*united sony btw speaking of Ps1 classics when ross gonna post his list of Ps1 classics we requested i got 1 title to put on the list. :/

if you put a R in that mrlopes you get what we EU feel lol

@skookie30

hahahahah did not even look @ it that way.

“The Live Fire and E3 Prize is only open to UK residents”

Sorry rest of Europe, you can go stuff it.

Yours sincerely Sony Europe division.

Goin out on a limb here, but does that include Ireland as well? Some people tend to lump us in there with the UK…

@C_L_O_U_D_M_A_N

Don’t count on it.. And I don’t think anyone will report to comment here.. entering this topic now is like standing in front of a firing squad.

Yeah true, the KZ3-themed posts here were never too ‘reply-friendly’ at all. Oh well, signed up all the same!

@MrLopes

Wow i imagine that would have a lot of legal hoops and distribution hoops etc to jump through.

@almighty-slayer

I bet it does but this is the way to go forward in our modern world.

If the prizes are only for uk residents, post it on the UK playstation website. Posting it on the EU boards is just cheap and offensive.

I mean I could understand issues with the live fire range, but the trip to E3 being UK only? REALLY? It’s in freaking America, for gods sakes. either way, people will have to freaking fly over there. SCEE are evidently not aquainted with decent PR.

@30: Well, at least I wish they could skip translating each and every game. I always play my games in English, and that’s not a problem for Scandinavians, at least not those aged 50 and below, imo. It’s enough if they translate games for kids.

Translating games delays them, and make them more expensive. That way they could skip distributors like Nordisk Film and cut prices even more. That’s important in this time and age.

But maybe we have to pay so much because Nordisk Film had strippers(?) on the PS3 release party? (I kid you not!! NSFW: http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.100734?showGallery=true&img=7#selected) I wonder what Sony think about release parties like that…

@32

I play all my games in English and started doing this from a young age. I understand they can’t just stop translating games but @ least give us equal services.

Equal rights to participate in contests. Sometimes it feels like the pal/eu region is in the Sony middle age.. And SCEJ/SCEA are living in the modern world.

@33: Not even the EU translates to every language, and they handle very serious issues compared to games…

I wish Sony would let us buy the English version early if we want to, and those who want translated games can wait, and pay extra for the translations. That would be nice, and fair.

And the competitions… didn’t they promise competitions for all countries? I remember reading something about that here…

Btw, the link I submitted in post #32 is to the Swedish branch of International Data Group, a big publishing company. The site is “okayed” by McAfee SiteAdvisor, so there should be no viruses etc. But it’s still NSFW, I guess…

Lol they never fail to disappoint. All America needs to do is play the KZ3 beta for a weekend to be in with a chance to win 500 Helgaust editions of the game. Australia have there own promotion running and now UK has got this lMAO.

Lol as usual the rest of Europe means nothing to Sony ROFL. Aye don’t get upset over it folks, none of yous posting would have been lucky enough to win it anyway.

Trolling over, aye for people thats complaining don’t talk to soon, its still early days, Sony may run promotions for the game in your areas too.

UK is the backbone of European Union
The PSN Servers of Europe is hosted in UK and the HQ

I know it’s unfair to the rest of the fellow European members and I personally think that it’s dumb that NL doesn’t get goodies and they are the country who designed Killzone.

Let’s not also forget that the creators of Little Big Planet is in the UK but the collectors edition in America is beyond awesome!

@37: Sony ranks the countries like this:

1. USA
2. -
3. -
4. -
5. Japan
6. -
7. -
8. UK
9. -
10. -
12. -
13. Most of Europe and the rest of the World
14. -
15. Scandinavia and some other small villages

Of course, the longer down you are on the list, the more you have to pay.

@38 that sums it up perfectly that about right SCEA=BEST

pfft ISA?
What about those of us who empathise with the Helghast?

Lets get things straight, there’s no such thing as SCEE-UK (who is Gods name invented this?). There’s SCEA, SCEJ, SCEAsia and SCEE.

SCEE stands for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and last I checked EUROPE didn’t stand for United Kingdom so either SCEE starts to do stuff like this on all EUROPEAN countries or simply don’t do it at all.

And don’t get me started with other stuff.

PS: long live to Scandinavia land of heavy metal \m/-_-’\m/ and though tm2010swe you’re swedish i’m rocking Children Of Bodom now (Finish)

sorry post number 4 that you feel that way, maybe we should have a blog for each country. i guess sony wont do that lol….. WE MUST BE UBER!! ;P

This is awesome! UK FTW

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>> Lets get things straight, there’s no such thing as SCEE-UK (who is
>> Gods name invented this?). There’s SCEA, SCEJ, SCEAsia and SCEE.

SCE-uk does exist (even has a different VP from SCEE), it is responsible for the promotion and protection of the SCE products and entertainment in the UK. there also exists SCE-benelux, for example.

if SCE-uk have funded the competition, then it should be for residents of the UK. there would be nothing to stop the benelux arm doing it for the dutch, or the iberian arm running a comp for portuguese residents.

the organisation (scee) that overseas europe as a region has to be based somewhere, so it has its *headquarters* in the london. partly because of the ease of business in london, the common language, and in general the UK is by far the single biggest market in the EU for videogames.

>> i always say this but it time to put down SCEE disband it i don’t
>> expect a response SCEI Makes the rules & 2 of it‘s favourite
>> region SCEA & SCEJ.

if you think putting SCEA in charge of all regions would make things vastly better, you are delusional. ask the canadians or mexicans. SCEA has only one interest, the USA.

@#46 Ohhh poor you, and what’s the only interest of SCEE? Uh? What? Say again! Oh right, the uk…. because in scee maps, europe comes only in form of the uk.

I’m waiting my latin here with arrogant people. I’m not against the people in the uk or the fact you have this contest, I’m against scee, just open your eyes. And if for one second you guys think this is fair then you’re ignorants like those on scee.

*wasting

I don’t understand that where the game is developed,didn’t have that ?.
But !!,now i am confused why so many countries are under SCEE,
when they all are treated like they are seperate.

I don’t see why UK gets the best things in europe,while germany ( don’t wanna blow the dutch horn here )is a big gaming nation to.

oh well,there is no point me actually typing this,it will be ignored anyway..

Theres a phrase I think goes well with this post.

“Put up or shut up”