In the sign-up form.
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Omg I received the same mail too, this is ridiculous lol.
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so, no. They are trying to get away with saying “chance”. However, in order to run a drawing, or sweepstakes, whatever you want to call it you have to provide a legal document detailing the terms of said drawing. As far as I can tell, those terms were in fact, NOT provided. The terms and conditions listed are for getting an account and/or providing them with your information.
Until I see substantive evidence (aka more than “Well they said chance”) I am labelling this as a bait and switch.
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EDIT: cross that, these are for a different one, I think they removed the link for the one we were entering
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always read the fine print - on the back page - in invisible ink 
also, am i the only one finding it absurdly strange that during the same promo EU got it for free and guaranteed, but US was a “sweepstakes” ? 
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it seems fishy, yeah. In my opinion, it’s not really worth doing much beyond being extremely disappointed in Bandai Namco and trusting them less.
I do know if I knew it was a sweepstakes I wouldn’t have bothered.
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Yeah, I mean, there’s no question about it being buried. The only reason I saw the rules was because I’m something of a fine print aficionado (professional deviation).
To get to it one had to go to “Terms of Service”, then find the right section with a link to a listing of “Community Events”, and only then there are terms for those events. And this path is neither obvious nor intuitive.
Still, maybe it’s just me, but I see so many chances of this kind every week, that I identify them same way as I identify advertisements - subconsciously.
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yeah I saw the location for them, but the Wayback machine didn’t have a copy of it from when it was active.
So if there was indeed rules, then they wouldn’t be baiting and switching. They would just be wording it incorrectly with a concurrent everyone gets one giveaway. Which is still a bit of a douche move.
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To be honest, I don’t even care about the legality of it. It is douchey regardless, but it’s also marketing (which might as well be a synonym) - a game we’re all familiar with.
Having that said, considering they gave me an opportunity to get something I wanted for free, they can diddle all they want.
Even though I didn’t get anything, they didn’t hurt me either. Because they can’t.
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Ditto for me. I already had the game. I had promised my key to someone 
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Yea, didn’t see where it said it was a drawing, but maybe I didn’t look at the fine print hard enough. lol
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And it seems that it was supposed to be a raffle, where even Reddit is complaining about it:
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woa, that’s weird, usually never complaints about anything 
oookay, “@all”, i think i know what’s going on
it seems that people “erroneously” thought they were entering for Little Nightmares 1 - but in fact people were on the “wrong” page, either because of geo location or by accident, and the Little Nightmares giveaway and raffle were actually 2 completely different things
Prize Prize Details Average Retail Value (per Prize) “Grand Prize” (1 Winner)|Custom Console (Nintendo Switch)
LITTLE NIGHTMARES II “Launch Kit” which includes the following:
Six Patch
Mono Patch
Reversable Hat
LITTLE NIGHTMARES II Burlap Sack
“Stay Tuned” Bundle
Physical copy of LITTLE NIGHTMARES II for the Nintendo Switch – At time of launch|$540.00|
|“Consolation Prize”(4 Winners)|LITTLE NIGHTMARES II “Launch Kit” which includes the following:
Six Patch
Mono Patch
Reversable Hat
LITTLE NIGHTMARES II Burlap Sack
“Stay Tuned” Bundle
Copy of LITTLE NIGHTMARES II (Winner may elect to receive the physical version for Xbox One, PS4, or Nintendo Switch or the digital version for Steam) – At time of launch|
^people that didn’t/couldn’t go to the actual store page and “buy” little nightmares (1), never got/would have gotten it, and all other/somehow the page you guys were on, was for Little Nightmares 2 related sweepstake
possibly some broken english/“lost in translation” or poor PR department that neglected something to this and not making it crystal clear, where people ended up confused/thinking they were signing up for Little Nightmares 1 but weren’t
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Ugh, this giveaway was a Little Nightmare indeed. 
So the best was to get the keys through the European website, which I did, and I even gave one to a fellow friend from this forum because you could get two keys of the same game. I wonder why they didn’t do the same to North Americans in order to save them (and also us) from this confusion.
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incorrect. The sweepstakes for physical copy of Little Nightmares 2 is a completely different sweepstakes that hasn’t ended yet.
Or take a look through the Wayback machine on archive.org
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the one i posted was from the sweepstake fine print seeker posted
-and would also explain why people didn’t get it while it was completely easy to grab for EU
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There were three GAs:
- Little Nightmares by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe, posted by carvalho20ptc in the OP
This was done through the store, by buying keys for null. Not a sweepstake. - Little Nightmares by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America, posted by Luxen: here
This one was a sweepstake. - Little Nightmares II by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America, not posted here
This one is still on: https://www.bandainamcoent.com/landing/ln2-giveaway#more-info, and is a sweepstake as well.
I’ve posted that link to rules for GA#3 by my mistake. I just grabbed the first thing on the event list I saw had “little” in its name and only then realized it was for a different/new event. What I intended to do was to post the rules for GA#2, but these were apparently removed, as the event has ended. Thus the edit.
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and what i’m saying is possibly the 1/2 got mixed up with 3 for US, since it makes no sense at all, not only to do 2 separate sweepstakes at once, but do 1 giveaway(eu) and one as a sweepstake(us) - hence the mention of sht lost in translation or PR screw up, because it’s too mind baffling stupid to be deliberate
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Finally!
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yeah, i updated the topic title for the moment so it’s clear without opening thread too
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