Escape from Nightmare Mansion. Win an XBOX 360 with Kinect!

RagnaThePig

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Something I would like you to clear out. The first line of the Official rules says :

"MUST BE AGE 18 AND A RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO ENTER AND WIN."

Then :

2. ELIGIBILITY. Entrants must be at least 18 years old and must reside in either the US or Canada to be eligible.


So which is it ? Can a resident of Canada win the prize ?
 

s0osleepie

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Musashi inc said:
...no matter how many times I click the badges nothing ever happens, it sends me right back to the house.
Selerik said:
ThyNameIsMud said:
Vamantha said:
Also, why do some people have "Help me! Please" badge, but not the "Undead Monster" badge?
NewfieKeir said:
So if someone is ... challenging community members, they won't have the monster badge.
Correct. You must first register and enter the event. This is done by visiting the main event page, located here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/content/riseofnightmares/] filling out the form at the bottom of the page, and submitting it by clicking on the button below the form. This "kidnaps" you into the mansion and awards you the kidnapped badge, aka "Save me! Please!" Fellow community members who click on this badge in an attempt to help those trapped are directed to the event page and will be awarded the badge. This badge does NOT award any points, nor does it automatically register you into the event. You must opt-in and choose to participate.

Until you are registered for the event and trapped within the mansion yourself, you are NOT able to participate or accumulate points by seeking out the undead amongst your community. You receive the "Undead Monster" badge by encountering a monster within the mansion.
 

Death God

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I see the second room but I can not click anywhere. Is anyone else having this issue?
 

Selerik

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Death God said:
I see the second room but I can not click anywhere. Is anyone else having this issue?
Edit: See below.

s0osleepie said:
You can only discover a new room each day. Once you discover the next room, you may come back 12:00am EDT the next day to continue exploring the mansion. Reloading the mansion prior to that time will not have any effect on your game play or score.
 

Blazingdragoon04

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Blazingdragoon04 said:
I'm having some trouble signing up for this, much like the El Shaddai contest. I enter all my information and then click on the "click here to begin" page, and from there it just takes me back to the same page to enter all my information again, thus preventing me from ever starting this contest. Any help on how to get this started, I really don't want to miss out on another contest...
I still REALLY need help. Still can't sign up for the contest, and support hasn't gotten back to me. Please help!
 

Selerik

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Blazingdragoon04 said:
Blazingdragoon04 said:
I still REALLY need help. Still can't sign up for the contest, and support hasn't gotten back to me. Please help!
I'm going to recommend the standard tricks.

1. Try a different browser. If you're using IE, try to toggle compatibility mode (little image of a torn sheet to the right of the url)
2. Clear your cache, refresh the Introduction page.
3. Begin sacrificing gummy bears to the Gods of the internet.
4. Try updating your browser/flash/everything.
5. Upgrade to sacrificing snickers and nerd candy.
6. Try to do it from a different computer.
7. Build a computer in minecraft to sign up for you.
8. Use the power of self-hypnosis to convince yourself everything worked.
9. Realize hypnosis didn't work, check with the technical staff again.
 

asylumsweetie

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Hi! When I click the undead monster badge it just reloads this forum page instead of offering me any kind of fight or anything. Am I doing something wrong or is something broken?
 

Selerik

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asylumsweetie said:
Hi! When I click the undead monster badge it just reloads this forum page instead of offering me any kind of fight or anything. Am I doing something wrong or is something broken?
Thats working as intended. You'll need to visit the leaderboard and see your score to see if you won or lost the fight.
 

Erana

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s0osleepie said:
Erana said:
Honestly, this is a much better option for peoples' sanity. You don't have to hammer at the Escapist constantly to still have a chance.
Thank you for noticing the improvements we made based on feedback from prior events!! We make sure to review all feedback and constructive criticism from the community and try to improve each community event based on them. Above everything else, we want these events to be a fun interactive event that adds to the community experience on The Escapist. As we attempt to grow these events in size and complexity for your enjoyment, we will not always get it 100% right 100% of the time. But I can assure you, we are always trying our hardest to do so :)
I just reread the fine print-
anyone who entered has a chance of getting the secondary prize?
Meaning that the top 20 only has a 1/6⅓ chance of getting anything?

This and the fact that you may or may not actually get the points you get rubs me the wrong way a bit- Out of curiousity, what drove the decision to make the opportunities for points so arbitrary?
I mean, unless there's a specific reason for it, I'm all for going back to the instant gratification of "you get what you click" in the next event like this.
 

staika

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I'm just clicking randomly, am I winning? I'm so confused on what to do.
 

Riff Moonraker

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I started off fine, but then it just kind of.... froze up. I am at a part that says, "You enter what appears to be an operating theater, complete with gleaming scalpels and saws. The next patient is woozy, but otherwise unharmed. You scoop them up and flee. You see a door open" and nothing I do will allow it to progress further... am I doing something wrong?
 

weatherfn

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Riff Moonraker said:
I started off fine, but then it just kind of.... froze up. I am at a part that says, "You enter what appears to be an operating theater, complete with gleaming scalpels and saws. The next patient is woozy, but otherwise unharmed. You scoop them up and flee. You see a door open" and nothing I do will allow it to progress further... am I doing something wrong?
Something similar happened to me last night when I was exploring the mansion. I found someone and saved them, then I went into the next room and wasn't able to click anymore. I saw in the rules that if you save someone in the mansion, then you get a point, but are not able to click anymore. The only way to be able to click more than once is if you kill a monster, it seems. (Unfortunately, I saved that person om my first click, so I only got one point in the last mansion run...)
 

s0osleepie

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RagnaThePig said:
As stated in the rules on the front page directly above sign-up, only residents of the United States of America can win the prize. The long form legal, which is the second section you are referring to, was written to be slightly more inclusive in case we were able to include Canada in this prize offering. I apologize if this caused any confusion.

XT inc said:
Why is Canada never Included in the prizes, We are right above the states. I can understand why you don't ship to europe, australia, New zealand etc, But honestly shipping across north america is cake.
Canada in particular is more than just a mere shipping issue. Canada requires many labels on consumer packaging to be in BOTH English AND French. If the package of a prize that is mailed to us was created for the US, many times it is in English only, thus baring us from shipping it to many provinces in Canada. It is a major reason video game and movie releases are delayed in Canada and it is the same reason why we must exclude shipping prizes to Canada as well if that game is also being sold their by the corporate sponsor. You may find this law outlined on Canada's Competition Bureau's website, found here [http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/01248.html]

Every country has very specific international shipment and contest legality laws. While I shall not detail the laws of each country, there are some common international requirements that we have all witnessed that is being overlooked. For example, as you all know, video game release dates vary by country and many countries have their own rating agencies that must be included (ESRB vs PEGI). Countries like Germany require the color of blood in video games to be green, disallowing importation of UK or NA versions that use red as the color of blood. DVDs are country coded and will only work in certain regions. Sometimes we are provided the prize and a computer purchased here might not have the correct electricity plug to work in a country elsewhere. These are just a few common known examples, let alone all the reasons we can find by combing through the rules and regulations of each country. Lastly, as explained in this post [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/6.310972-Escape-from-Nightmare-Mansion-Win-an-XBOX-360-with-Kinect?page=3#12590362], sometimes the reason is simply corporate structure, which only allows a specific corporate branch to run promotions and advertising in specific countries. As I am sure you can see, we have no control over any of this.
 

s0osleepie

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weatherfn said:
Riff Moonraker said:
I started off fine, but then it just kind of.... froze up. I am at a part that says, "You enter what appears to be an operating theater, complete with gleaming scalpels and saws. The next patient is woozy, but otherwise unharmed. You scoop them up and flee. You see a door open" and nothing I do will allow it to progress further... am I doing something wrong?
Something similar happened to me last night when I was exploring the mansion. I found someone and saved them, then I went into the next room and wasn't able to click anymore. I saw in the rules that if you save someone in the mansion, then you get a point, but are not able to click anymore.
You are not doing anything wrong. As explained in detail in this post, everyone's experience shall be different. Discovering the next room will end your experience for that day and you will be able to continue exploring the mansion in search of an exit at 12:00AM EDT the next day.
 

s0osleepie

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RagnaThePig said:
ThyNameIsMud said:
The refresh shows the completion of you saving/not saving someone. You can check the leaderboard [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/content/riseofnightmares/leaderboard] to see where you are standing.
Oh ok... I guess what bothers me is the complete lack of message saying something actually happened.
We went ahead and added the action to redirect you to the Mansion page tell you whether you gained or lost a point. Hope this helps in your mission!
 

DollsDem

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Now if you could just make it so that badges that you have already clicked on say something other then you have lost a point I'll be happy and not overly stressed that i lost another point in my slow decline.
 

Blazingdragoon04

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Selerik said:
Blazingdragoon04 said:
Blazingdragoon04 said:
I still REALLY need help. Still can't sign up for the contest, and support hasn't gotten back to me. Please help!
I'm going to recommend the standard tricks.

1. Try a different browser. If you're using IE, try to toggle compatibility mode (little image of a torn sheet to the right of the url)
2. Clear your cache, refresh the Introduction page.
3. Begin sacrificing gummy bears to the Gods of the internet.
4. Try updating your browser/flash/everything.
5. Upgrade to sacrificing snickers and nerd candy.
6. Try to do it from a different computer.
7. Build a computer in minecraft to sign up for you.
8. Use the power of self-hypnosis to convince yourself everything worked.
9. Realize hypnosis didn't work, check with the technical staff again.
The gods of the internet have abandoned me... I can not sign up for the contest, and support refuses to get back to me. Clearly there is only one solution...

*Heads to Greece*
 

Erana

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restoshammyman said:
i got an idea for the escapist. instead of giving away kinects, they should pay there employees!
This is an event sponsored by Sega.

Please leave the sarcasm at the door and do a little research.