No Robots for the Euros
Over in the US, Mountain Dew have launched a new WoW-themed drink. Mountain Dew Gamer Fuel is now available in Horde and Alliance flavours, and alongside it is a website with things to do to earn tokens with which to buy prizes.
Although not yet confirmed, it’s highly likely that one of the prizes you can get from this is an in-game pet. It looks like the 3.1.2 patch will introduce two new pets – a little robot available in both red and blue. It looks suspiciously like you’ll be able to get yourself one of these pets by participating in the Mountain Dew promotion…
… as long as you live in the US. I just tried to register for the Gamer Fuel website to see what it was all about, and as part of the registration you have to enter your address. When I tried to log on to the website I was told I was not able to participate, as the promotion is only available to “legal US residents”.
*sigh*
This disappoints me. It seems unfair, when World of Warcraft is a global game, for this kind of thing to only be available in the US.
Where’s the love for all the other WoW players?
And it gets worse. It seems that when the pets went live yesterday, they were being mailed to characters on EU accounts despite the big message above the ‘Redeem Pet’ button informing users that a US account was required to redeem the pet. At some point early today that was hotfixed – you can still hit the button and you’ll be told that you’ve received a pet, it just doesn’t actually appear in the mail…