We’re again with our second Finest View in SWTOR contest! We had a improbable time seeing the entire entries that have been submitted final time, so we’re trying ahead to all of the inventive pictures our gamers will likely be getting into this 12 months.
Beginning in the present day, gamers can submit screenshots taken wherever on ten choose SWTOR planets. Take a screenshot of a scenic vista, a vibrant forest, a peaceable stream… and we’ll select the screenshot that we really feel captures the essence of that planet. One winner will likely be chosen per planet for a complete of ten profitable submissions.
The profitable submissions will then be became Stronghold decorations and distributed by the Anniversary occasion vendor in-game! The ten eligible planets for this contest are:
- Alderaan
- Coruscant
- Dromund Kaas
- Hoth
- Quesh
- Taris
- Manaan
- Rishi
- Odessen
- Iokath
Find out how to Enter
Should you’re concerned about taking part on this contest, you’ll be able to enter by submitting your screenshots to contests@swtor.com. You’re greater than welcome to submit a screenshot for a number of planets, however please restrict all submissions to just one planet per e mail, and please solely submit one picture per planet. All picture submissions should observe sure pointers:
- No Participant Characters in screenshot
- The in-game UI must be turned off.
- The default command for that is Alt+Z
- This contains having nameplates turned off.
- Screenshots of cinematics do NOT qualify.
- No further enhancing performed to screenshots. For instance, no filters added or enhancing performed by exterior instruments.
- Digital camera settings have to be inside supposed in-game parameters.
- This implies not utilizing exterior instruments or enhancing recreation recordsdata to exceed in-game settings.
- Graphics settings at Very Excessive or Extremely
- Picture Measurement: 1920×1080 or greater decision
- The crew will crop the chosen screenshots to a 4:3 format.
- Picture Format: JPG
Along with these picture necessities, we ask that your e mail embody the next info:
- Topic line clearly states the identify of the competition and the precise planet the place your screenshot submission was taken.
- Instance: The Finest View In SWTOR Contest – Alderaan Submission
- Account Title.
- Title of an present character on the listed account.
- Server the listed character resides on.
The account, character, and server names are essential to offer the winners a particular prize, so please don’t neglect to incorporate that! This contest is open to everybody, no matter account standing, so whether or not you’re a Subscriber or Most well-liked/Free-to-Play standing, you’re inspired to enter!
Guidelines and Laws
Gamers have from now till October twelfth, 2022 to submit their screenshots! Along with the above talked about standards and required info, there are a number of further guidelines gamers should observe to ensure that their submission to qualify:
- Qualifying accounts will need to have been created by August thirty first, 2022.
- Accounts must have a clear standing, each in-game and on the discussion board.
- No file of in-game suspension since September 1st, 2021.
- No discussion board suspensions since June 1st, 2022.
- Character names should abide by our ToS guidelines.
- Screenshot submissions with out the required info (Account identify, Character identify, and Server identify) offered in the identical e mail because the screenshot will likely be rejected.
- Every account is proscribed to 1 submission per planet.
- If you wish to submit a screenshot for every eligible planet, please ship a separate submission per planet.
- Submission emails which have a couple of picture connected will likely be disqualified.
- E-mail topic strains should observe the “The Finest View In SWTOR Contest – [insert planet name] Submission” format.
Failure to stick to the above pointers will lead to your submission being rejected. Within the occasion that a number of folks submit the identical, or very comparable, screenshots, the screenshot submitted first will likely be chosen because the winner, so don’t wait to e mail us!
Outcomes Announcement
After the SWTOR crew selects the profitable submissions, we’ll publish an article saying the winners earlier than our upcoming 2022 Anniversary occasion. On this announcement, we’ll reveal the profitable screenshots, and credit score every participant (Character Title / Server) who submitted a profitable screenshot.
Whereas the winners are credited exterior of the sport, they may obtain one thing particular in SWTOR; a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted! Whereas the traditional variations will likely be out there to everybody by way of the Anniversary occasion vendor as quickly because the occasion begins in December, the gilded variations will likely be distributed shortly after the occasion begins.
We look ahead to seeing what screenshots the neighborhood comes up with!
Finest View in Star Wars the Outdated Republic Contest (“Contest”) is sponsored by Digital Arts Inc. (“EA”), 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood Metropolis, CA, USA 94065. Lucasfilm Ltd. shouldn’t be a sponsor of this contest.
1. Eligibility. To enter Contest:
- You have to be a authorized resident of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada (excluding Quebec), Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, or the USA (together with the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico).
- You have to be no less than 18 years of age.
- Your participation within the Contest means you agree to those Official Guidelines.
- You will not be an worker of EA, LucasFilm Ltd or any of its associated firms or representatives (“Brokers”) or the speedy member of the family or family member of an worker.
- Qualifying accounts will need to have been created by August thirty first, 2022.
- Accounts must have a clear standing, each in-game and on the SWTOR discussion board, with no file of in-game suspension since September 1st, 2021, and no discussion board suspensions since June 1st, 2022.
- Character names should abide by our SWTOR Guidelines of Conduct.
This Contest is topic to varied nationwide, state, territory, and native legal guidelines and rules, and is void the place prohibited. EA’s choices are last in all issues associated to the Contest.
2. To Enter. You have to a SWTOR Account that was created on or earlier than August 31, 2022 to take part within the Contest. No paid SWTOR subscription is important to enter or win. To take part within the Contest, it’s essential to seize a compelling in-game screenshot of an eligible planet. To enter, submit an e mail to contests@swtor.com between September twenty ninth, 2022 at 12:00am CDT and October twelfth, 2022 at 11:59pm CDT (“Contest Interval”) with the next:
- Screenshot of eligible planet
- E-mail topic line stating the identify of the Contest and the precise planet the place your screenshot was taken (e.g., “The Finest View in SWTOR Contest – Alderaan Submission”)
- Account Title
- Title of an present character on the account
- Server the listed character resides on
(collectively, the “Entry”). Entries that don’t adjust to the listed necessities will likely be deemed ineligible. No different technique of entry will likely be accepted. EA will settle for 1 Entry per individual, per planet. You could submit 1 Entry for a number of eligible planets. Accomplished Entries have to be acquired by October twelfth, 11:59pm CDT. All Entries develop into the property of EA and won’t be returned.
Eligible Entries are restricted to screenshots of the next planets:
- Alderaan
- Corsucant
- Dromund Kaas
- Hoth
- Quesh
- Taris
- Manaan
- Rishi
- Odessen
- Iokath
Entry screenshots should meet the next standards:
- No Participant Characters in screenshot (NPCs are allowed)
- The in-game UI must be turned off.
- Screenshots of cinematics do (I.e., custcenes) NOT qualify; your screenshot have to be captured throughout a second over which you’ve gotten management over character’s actions in-game;
- No further enhancing performed to screenshots. (e.g., no filters added or enhancing performed by exterior instruments)
- Graphics settings at Very Excessive or Extremely
- Picture Measurement: 1920×1080 or greater decision
- Picture Format: JPG
- Limitations on Entries: You could not share the identical username and/or e mail handle with a number of entrants. Should you try to receive greater than the permitted variety of Entries on a single planet by utilizing a number of or totally different e mail addresses, identities, or every other technique, your Entries will likely be void. Should you use any automated course of or cheat to take part, similar to a bot, EA will disqualify you from the Contest. No group/crew efforts, or multi-author(ed) Entries will likely be accepted on this Contest. For functions of this Contest, all Entries will likely be presumed authored by the individual submitting the Entry.
- By getting into, you warrant that your Entry accommodates solely EA-provided supplies and/or your individual authentic creations. You additional warrant that your Entry doesn’t include any third occasion copyrighted supplies, and doesn’t violate or infringe the copyrights, trademark rights, rights of publicity/privateness, or every other rights of a 3rd occasion. If EA has offered inventive supplies to be used within the Contest, you perceive that EA grants you a restricted, non-exclusive, non-commercial license to make use of these supplies solely in reference to the Contest. Entries should not incorporate any individual’s facial likeness or identify (together with yours). Entries should not have been submitted in different contests or been beforehand revealed. Entries have to be acceptable for audiences no less than 13 years of age. Entries should not include any racial, spiritual or ethnic slurs, express language, obscene, pornographic, violent, or sexual content material, libel, hate speech, references to alcohol, medicine or different illicit substances, or in any other case illegal or inappropriate content material, as decided by EA in its sole discretion.
3. Prizes. There are 10 prizes. Your odds of profitable a prize rely upon the variety of eligible Entries and the relative ability of the opposite entrants. All approximate retail values (“ARV”) are expressed in U.S. {Dollars}, Australian {Dollars}, and Euros. ARV of complete prize pool: $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR. Restrict one (1) prize per individual. Prizes will not be transferable, and no substitution of prizes for money or different items and providers is permitted. Entry to STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC on relevant platform, Web connection, and SWTOR Account required to say and use prize. If for any cause an marketed prize is unavailable, EA reserves the best to substitute a prize of equal or higher worth. Winners are chargeable for any relevant taxes on prizes.
- PRIZE #1: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – Alderaan
- The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward will likely be out there upon the launch of the 2022 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.
- PRIZE #2: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – Coruscant
- The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward will likely be out there upon the launch of the 2022 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.
- PRIZE #3: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – Dromund Kaas
- The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward will likely be out there upon the launch of the 2022 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.
- PRIZE#4: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – Hoth
- The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward will likely be out there upon the launch of the 2022 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.
- PRIZE #5: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – Quesh
- The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward will likely be out there upon the launch of the 2022 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.
- PRIZE #6: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – Taris
- The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward will likely be out there upon the launch of the 2022 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.
- PRIZE #7: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – Manaan
- The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward will likely be out there upon the launch of the 2022 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.
- PRIZE #8: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – Rishi
- The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward will likely be out there upon the launch of the 2022 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.
- PRIZE #9: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – Odessen
- The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward will likely be out there upon the launch of the 2022 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.
- PRIZE #10: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – Iokath
- The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward will likely be out there upon the launch of the 2022 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.
4. Entry Judging. On the shut of the Contest Interval, certified workers of EA and Lucasfilm Ltd., or their Brokers. will consider the eligible Entries and choose 10 (1 for every planet) potential winner in keeping with the next skill-based standards: 50% Precisely captures the theme of the planet that’s being captured (additionally tie-breaker standards), 30% Is a delightful picture to have a look at , 20% Complexity – 20%. The Contest Judges’ choices relating to the collection of the potential winners are last and binding.
5. Winner Notification. EA will announce the winners in an article on SWTOR Information (https://www.swtor.com/data/information) .
If a possible winner is disqualified, or the prize is forfeited for any cause, EA will award that prize, time allowing given the character of the prize, to an alternate winner utilizing the skill-based standards set forth above from all remaining eligible Entries. Solely 3 alternate winners will likely be chosen for any planet.
6. To Declare a Prize. If you’re chosen as a winner, you’ll obtain your prize by way of in-game mail on the SWTOR account, Character Title and Server you offered in your Entry e mail submission. This prize can solely be used in-game, will solely be related together with your Character and SWTOR Account, and isn’t transferable. Deletion or deactivation of your SWTOR Account for any cause will lead to lack of the prize.
7. Launch. To the extent allowable beneath relevant legislation and, in Australia, topic to and with out excluding, proscribing or modifying any rights or treatments to which you’ll be entitled as a client beneath the buyer assure provisions of the Australian Shopper Legislation in relation to the operation of the Promotion and any prize gained, you conform to launch EA and its Brokers, officers, administrators, and workers (the “Launched Events”) from any authorized claims, together with with out limitation claims associated to private damage, demise, or injury to or lack of property arising out of participation within the Contest, or receipt, use, or misuse of any prize, aside from residents of the UK and France with respect to claims ensuing from demise or private damage arising from EA’s negligence and for residents of the UK with respect to claims ensuing from the tort of deceit or every other liabilities that will not be excluded by legislation.
- For residents of Austria, Germany, Poland, Switzerland: By taking part on this Promotion, you acknowledge: (1) In regard to a prize or every other services or products supplied by EA and/or its associates freed from cost, EA shall solely be accountable for intent and gross negligence. (2) In all different circumstances, EA shall solely be liable in circumstances of intent and gross negligence. In case of slight negligence, nevertheless, EA is barely accountable for the breach of important contractual obligations, similar to delay or impossibility of efficiency, for which EA could be held accountable. The legal responsibility within the occasion of breach of such a vital contractual obligation is proscribed to the everyday contractual injury, whose prevalence might be anticipated by EA upon conclusion of the contract based mostly on the circumstances identified at the moment. “Important contractual obligations” are these obligations whose success is important to allow the right implementation of the contract, and the achievement of its objective and whose commentary you as an finish client might depend on. The foregoing limitations of legal responsibility shall not apply within the case of express ensures by EA, in case of malice and accidents to life, physique or well being, in addition to within the case of obligatory statutory rules. Nothing in these Official Guidelines shall deprive you of the buyer safety rights granted to you by the legal guidelines of your residence that can’t be derogated from by settlement.
8. Privateness and Publicity. Nothing in these Official Guidelines shall be deemed to exclude or limit any of your statutory rights as a client. Should you take part within the Contest, you consent to EA’s processing your private info together with your identify, e mail handle, IP handle, SWTOR account standing, nation, and date of delivery (“Private Info”) in accordance with EA’s Privateness & Cookie Coverage, which you’ll learn at https://www.ea.com/authorized/privacy-policy. You additionally consent to EA’s use of your Entry, private identify, person/display identify, social media deal with, likeness, {photograph}, voice, opinions, and/or hometown and state (“Entry Information”) for promotional functions. EA (or its Agent) has the choice, however not the duty, to make use of your Entry Information in any media, worldwide, with none additional attribution, notification or compensation. Some jurisdictions prohibit the obligatory consents described above, so some or all of them might not apply to you.
- For Residents of the European Union: The organizing entity shall be thought of the information controller for the database containing Private Info, and it gives for an acceptable knowledge safety degree. You perceive that your Private info shall be processed for the needs outlined beneath, in accordance with EA’s Privateness and Cookie Coverage, (see https://www.ea.com/authorized/privacy-policy).
- Organizing, working and monitoring the Promotion and prize success, together with, in the event you win a prize, publishing (i) your identify on the Winner(s) Listing and (ii) your identify and nation of residence on-line or in every other media in reference to the Promotion, as described on this Part 7 above; and
- Any further processing actions to which you consent and/or acknowledge as relevant.
Private Info will likely be used for the needs of:
9. License. By getting into this Contest, you expressly grant to EA and its Brokers a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, full, sub-licensable and irrevocable proper to cite, re-post, publish, use, adapt, translate, archive, retailer, reproduce, modify, create by-product works from, syndicate, license, print, sublicense, distribute, transmit, broadcast, and in any other case talk, and publicly show and carry out the Entry, or any portion thereof, in any method or type, with out discover, fee or attribution of any variety. You agree to not assert any ethical or comparable rights you might have in your Entry. EA has the best, however not the duty, to make use of any of the Entries.
10. Basic Situations. EA reserves the best to cancel, droop, or modify the Contest, (or any a part of it) if fraud, technical failure, human error or every other downside impairs its correct operation. In that occasion, EA might maintain a random drawing from amongst all eligible Entries acquired as much as the date of suspension for any of the prizes supplied. EA reserves the best to disqualify any individual it finds to be in violation of those Official Guidelines (together with tampering with the entry course of or the operation of the Contest), or performing in an unsporting or disruptive method. Should you try to intentionally undermine the professional operation of the Contest, it might be a violation of prison and/or civil legislation, and EA reserves the best to hunt damages from you to the extent permitted by legislation. EA’s failure to implement any time period in these Official Guidelines shall not be a waiver of that time period.
11. Limitation of Legal responsibility. The Launched Events will not be chargeable for: (1) inaccurate info, whether or not attributable to entrants, typographical errors, or by gear or programming related to the Contest; (2) technical failures, together with with out limitation community malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections; (3) unauthorized intervention within the entry course of or the Contest; (4) technical or human error within the administration of the Contest or the processing of Entries; (5) late, misplaced, undeliverable, broken or stolen mail or digital communications; (6) ineligibility for any cause, together with entrant’s misunderstanding of the Official Guidelines and necessities or the entry course of. If for any cause your Entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, misplaced, or in any other case destroyed or corrupted, your sole treatment is one other Entry within the Contest, if doable. EA will award not more than the acknowledged variety of prizes. If manufacturing, technical, programming or every other causes trigger greater than the acknowledged variety of prizes to be out there and/or claimed, EA reserves the best to award solely the acknowledged variety of prizes. Some jurisdictions prohibit the restrictions described above, so some or all of them might not apply to you.
12. Disputes. Until you’re a resident of a member-state of the European Financial Space, South Korea, or Switzerland, all disputes, claims or controversies arising out of or regarding the Contest, together with the advertising and promotion of the Contest (“Disputes”), shall be resolved completely by binding arbitration in the USA beneath the legal guidelines of the USA. The one Disputes not coated by this Part are claims (i) relating to the infringement, safety or validity of your, EA’s or EA’s licensors’ commerce secrets and techniques or copyright, trademark or patent rights; and (ii) these introduced in small claims court docket.
- You and EA shall first try to resolve any Dispute informally for no less than 30 days earlier than initiating arbitration. The casual negotiations begin upon receipt of written discover from one individual to the opposite (“Discover of Dispute”). The Discover of Dispute should: (a) embody the total identify and call info of the complaining occasion; (b) describe the character and foundation of the declare or dispute; and (c) set forth the precise aid sought. EA will ship its Discover of Dispute to the contact info in your Entry, or different handle you present for this objective. You’ll ship your Discover of Dispute to: Digital Arts Inc., 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood Metropolis CA USA 94065, ATTENTION: Authorized Division.
- Should you and EA can not resolve a Dispute informally, you or EA might elect to have the Dispute lastly and completely resolved by binding arbitration. The arbitration shall be administered by the American Arbitration Affiliation (“AAA”) beneath its Industrial Arbitration Guidelines and, the place acceptable, the AAA’s Supplementary Procedures for Shopper Associated Disputes (“AAA Shopper Guidelines”), each of which can be found on the AAA web site www.adr.org. Your arbitration charges and your share of arbitrator compensation shall be ruled by the AAA Guidelines and, the place acceptable, restricted by the AAA Shopper Guidelines. The arbitration could also be carried out in individual, by way of the submission of paperwork, by telephone or on-line. The arbitrator shall decide in writing, and shall present an announcement of causes if requested by both occasion. The arbitrator should observe relevant legislation, and any award could also be challenged if the arbitrator fails to take action. You and EA might litigate in court docket to compel arbitration, to remain continuing pending arbitration, or to substantiate, modify, vacate or enter judgment on the award entered by the arbitrator.
- YOU AND EA AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. The arbitrator shall not consolidate one other individual’s claims together with your claims and shall not preside over any kind of consultant or class continuing. The arbitrator might award declaratory or injunctive aid solely in favor of the person occasion searching for aid and solely to the extent vital to supply aid warranted by that occasion’s particular person declare.
- Should you reside in the USA, arbitration will happen at any affordable location handy for you. For residents exterior the USA, arbitration shall be initiated within the County of San Mateo, State of California, United States of America, and also you and EA conform to undergo the non-public jurisdiction of that court docket, so as to compel arbitration, to remain continuing pending arbitration, or to substantiate, modify, vacate or enter judgment on the award entered by the arbitrator.
- If the arbitrator guidelines in your favor on the deserves of any declare you deliver in opposition to EA and points you an award that’s higher in financial worth than EA’s final written settlement supply made earlier than EA makes its last written submissions to the arbitrator, then EA will: pay you 150% of your arbitration award, as much as $5,000 USD (or equal in your nationwide forex) over and above your arbitration award, and reimburse the arbitration charges that you just paid to the AAA.
- For residents of Australia: The Contest is ruled by the legal guidelines of the USA, offered that you’ll not be disadvantaged of your statutory rights and authorized safety as a client granted by the legal guidelines of Australia. The court docket of jurisdiction shall be your nation of residence.
13. Winner Listing. EA will put up the winner record at https://www.swtor.com/data/information following winner verification.
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