Star Wars: The Outdated Republic

We’re again with our fourth Greatest View in SWTOR contest! As with earlier years, we’re wanting ahead to all of the inventive pictures our gamers might be submitting. Beginning in the present day, gamers can submit screenshots taken wherever on 5 choose SWTOR places. We’ll select the screenshot that we really feel captures the essence of that setting, so get inventive! One winner might be chosen per location for a complete of 5 profitable submissions.

The profitable submissions will then be became Stronghold decorations and distributed by the Anniversary occasion vendor in-game! The 5 eligible places for this contest are:

• Ziost
• CZ-198
• Part X
• Minboosa District
• The Black Gap

Tips on how to Enter

When you’re all for taking part on this contest, you may enter by submitting your screenshots to contests@swtor.com. You’re greater than welcome to submit a screenshot for a number of places, however please restrict all submissions to just one location per electronic mail, and please solely submit one picture per location. All picture submissions should comply with 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 modifying accomplished to screenshots. For instance, no filters added or modifying accomplished by exterior instruments.
• Digital camera settings should be inside supposed in-game parameters.
  • This implies not utilizing exterior instruments or modifying sport information to exceed in-game settings.
• Graphics settings at Very Excessive or Extremely
• Picture Measurement: 1920×1080 or increased decision
  • The group will crop the chosen screenshots to a 4:3 format.
• Picture Format: JPG

Along with these picture necessities, we ask that your electronic mail embody the next info:

• Topic line clearly states the title of the competition and the particular location the place your screenshot submission was taken.
• Instance: The Greatest View In SWTOR Contest – Ziost Submission
• Account Identify.
• Identify 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 overlook 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 20, 2024 to submit their screenshots! Along with the above talked about standards and required info, there are just a few further guidelines gamers should comply with to ensure that their submission to qualify:

• Qualifying accounts should have been created by September 1, 2024.
• Accounts must have a clear standing, each in-game and on the discussion board.
  • No report of in-game suspension since September 4, 2023.
  • No discussion board suspensions since July 1st, 2024.
• Character names should abide by our ToS guidelines.
• Screenshot submissions with out the required info (Account title, Character title, and Server title) offered in the identical electronic mail because the screenshot might be rejected.
• Every account is restricted to at least one submission per location.
  • If you wish to submit a screenshot for every eligible location, please ship a separate submission per location.
• Submission emails which have a couple of picture connected might be disqualified.
• E-mail topic strains should comply with the “The Greatest View In SWTOR Contest – [insert location 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 might be chosen because the winner, so don’t wait to electronic mail us! 

Outcomes Announcement

After the SWTOR group selects the profitable submissions, we’ll publish an article saying the winners earlier than our upcoming 2024 Anniversary occasion. On this announcement, we’ll reveal the profitable screenshots, and credit score every participant (Character Identify / Server) who submitted a profitable screenshot. 

Whereas the winners are credited outdoors of the sport, they are going to obtain one thing particular in SWTOR; a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted! Whereas the conventional variations might be obtainable to everybody by way of the Anniversary occasion vendor as quickly because the occasion begins in December, the gilded variations might be distributed shortly after the occasion begins.

We stay up for seeing what screenshots the group comes up with!

Greatest View in Star Wars the Outdated Republic Contest (“Contest”) is sponsored by Broadsword On-line Video games, 790 Station St. Herndon, VA 20170. Lucasfilm Ltd. is just not a sponsor of this contest.

1. Eligibility. To enter Contest:

• You should 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 america (together with the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico).
• You should be not 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 Broadsword, 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 should have been created by September 1, 2024.
• Accounts must have a clear standing, each in-game and on the SWTOR discussion board, with no report of in-game suspension since September 1st, 2023, and no discussion board suspensions since June 1st, 2024.
• Character names should abide by our SWTOR Guidelines of Conduct.

This Contest is topic to varied nationwide, state, territory, and native legal guidelines and laws, and is void the place prohibited. Broadsword’s choices are ultimate in all issues associated to the Contest.

2. To Enter. You will want a SWTOR Account that was created on or earlier than September 1, 2024 to take part within the Contest. No paid SWTOR subscription is critical to enter or win. To take part within the Contest, you have to seize a compelling in-game screenshot of an eligible location. To enter, submit an electronic mail to contests@swtor.com between October 4, 2024 at 12:00am CDT and October 20, 2024 at 11:59pm CDT (“Contest Interval”) with the next:

• Screenshot of eligible location
• E-mail topic line stating the title of the Contest and the particular location the place your screenshot was taken (e.g., “The Greatest View in SWTOR Contest – Ziost Submission”)
• Account Identify
• Identify 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 might be deemed ineligible. No different technique of entry might be accepted. Broadsword will settle for 1 Entry per particular person, per location. Chances are you’ll submit 1 Entry for a number of eligible location. Accomplished Entries should be acquired by October 20, 2024, 11:59pm CDT. All Entries develop into the property of Broadsword and won’t be returned.

Eligible Entries are restricted to screenshots of the next places:

• Ziost
• CZ-198
• Part X
• Minboosa District
• The Black Gap

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 should be captured throughout a second over which you may have management over character’s actions in-game;
• No further modifying accomplished to screenshots. (e.g., no filters added or modifying accomplished by exterior instruments)
• Graphics settings at Very Excessive or Extremely
• Picture Measurement: 1920×1080 or increased decision
• Picture Format: JPG

Limitations on Entries: Chances are you’ll not share the identical username and/or electronic mail tackle with a number of entrants. When you try and get hold of greater than the permitted variety of Entries on a single location through the use of a number of or completely different electronic mail addresses, identities, or every other technique, your Entries might be void. When you use any automated course of or cheat to take part, akin to a bot, Broadsword will disqualify you from the Contest. No group/group efforts, or multi-author(ed) Entries might be accepted on this Contest. For functions of this Contest, all Entries might be presumed authored by the particular person submitting the Entry.

By getting into, you warrant that your Entry comprises solely Broadsword-provided supplies and/or your personal unique creations. You additional warrant that your Entry doesn’t comprise any third celebration copyrighted supplies, and doesn’t violate or infringe the copyrights, trademark rights, rights of publicity/privateness, or every other rights of a 3rd celebration. If Broadsword has offered inventive supplies to be used within the Contest, you perceive that Broadsword 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 particular person’s facial likeness or title (together with yours). Entries should not have been submitted in different contests or been beforehand printed. Entries should be acceptable for audiences not less than 13 years of age. Entries should not comprise any racial, spiritual or ethnic slurs, express language, obscene, pornographic, violent, or sexual content material, libel, hate speech, references to alcohol, medication or different illicit substances, or in any other case illegal or inappropriate content material, as decided by Broadsword in its sole discretion.

3. Prizes. There are 5 prizes. Your odds of profitable a prize rely upon the variety of eligible Entries and the relative talent of the opposite entrants. All approximate retail values (“ARV”) are expressed in U.S. {Dollars}, Australian {Dollars}, and Euros. ARV of whole prize pool: $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR. Restrict one (1) prize per particular person. Prizes should not transferable, and no substitution of prizes for money or different items and companies is permitted. Entry to Star Wars: THE OLD REPUBLIC on relevant platform, Web connection, and SWTOR Account required to assert and use prize. Prizes might be granted to the winners by way of in-game mail to the Character Names offered within the winner’s Entries. If for any motive an marketed prize is unavailable, Broadsword reserves the precise to substitute a prize of equal or better worth. Winners are liable for any relevant taxes on prizes.

PRIZE #1: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – Ziost

The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward might be obtainable upon the launch of the 2024 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.

PRIZE #2: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – CZ-198

The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward might be obtainable upon the launch of the 2024 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.

PRIZE #3: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – Part X

The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward might be obtainable upon the launch of the 2024 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.

PRIZE#4: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – Minboosa District

The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward might be obtainable upon the launch of the 2024 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.

PRIZE #5: Gilded Stronghold Ornament – The Black Gap

The winner will obtain a gilded model of the screenshot they submitted on the Character named of their Entry. Reward might be obtainable upon the launch of the 2024 Anniversary Occasion. ARV is $0.00 USD, $0.00 AUS, €0.00 EUR.

4. Entry Judging. On the shut of the Contest Interval, certified staff of Broadsword and Lucasfilm Ltd., or their Brokers will consider the eligible Entries and choose 5 (1 for every location) potential winners in line with the next skill-based standards: 50% Precisely captures the theme of the loation that’s being captured (this criterion is a tiebreaker), 30% Is a delightful picture to take a look at, 20% Complexity.

5. Winner Notification. Broadsword will announce the winners in an article on SWTOR Information (https://www.swtor.com/information/information).

If a possible winner is disqualified, or the prize is forfeited for any motive, Broadsword 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 might be chosen for any location.

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 Identify and Server you offered in your Entry electronic mail submission. This prize can solely be used in-game, will solely be related along with your Character and SWTOR Account, and isn’t transferable. Deletion or deactivation of your SWTOR Account for any motive will lead to lack of the prize.

7. Launch. To the extent allowable below 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 shopper below the buyer assure provisions of the Australian Shopper Regulation in relation to the operation of the Promotion and any prize gained, you conform to launch Broadsword, Digital Arts, and its Brokers, officers, administrators, and staff (the “Launched Events”) from any authorized claims, together with with out limitation claims associated to non-public damage, dying, or injury to or lack of property arising out of participation within the Contest, or receipt, use, or misuse of any prize, apart from residents of the UK and France with respect to claims ensuing from dying or private damage arising from Broadsword’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 provided by Broadsword and/or its associates freed from cost, Broadsword shall solely be responsible for intent and gross negligence. (2) In all different instances, Broadsword shall solely be liable in instances of intent and gross negligence. In case of slight negligence, nevertheless, Broadsword is simply responsible for the breach of important contractual obligations, akin to delay or impossibility of efficiency, for which Broadsword might be held accountable. The legal responsibility within the occasion of breach of such an important contractual obligation is restricted to the standard contractual injury, whose incidence might be anticipated by Broadsword upon conclusion of the contract based mostly on the circumstances identified at the moment. “Important contractual obligations” are these obligations whose achievement is important to allow the correct implementation of the contract, and the achievement of its function and whose commentary you as an finish shopper could depend on. The foregoing limitations of legal responsibility shall not apply within the case of express ensures by Broadsword, in case of malice and accidents to life, physique or well being, in addition to within the case of obligatory statutory laws. 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 shopper. When you take part within the Contest, you consent to Broadsword’s processing your private info together with your title, electronic mail tackle, IP tackle, SWTOR account standing, nation, and date of start (“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 Broadsword’s use of your Entry, private title, consumer/display screen title, social media deal with, likeness, {photograph}, voice, opinions, and/or hometown and state (“Entry Knowledge”) for promotional functions. Broadsword (or its Agent) has the choice, however not the duty, to make use of your Entry Knowledge 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 could 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 offers for an acceptable knowledge safety degree. You perceive that your Private info shall be processed for the needs outlined under, in accordance with EA’s Privateness and Cookie Coverage, (see https://www.ea.com/authorized/privacy-policy).

Private Info might be used for the needs of:

• Organizing, operating and monitoring the Promotion and prize achievement, together with, if you happen to win a prize, publishing (i) your title on the Winner(s) Record and (ii) your title 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.

9. License. By getting into this Contest, you expressly grant to Broadsword 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 spinoff 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 kind, with out discover, fee or attribution of any type. You agree to not assert any ethical or comparable rights you will have in your Entry. Broadsword has the precise, however not the duty, to make use of any of the Entries.

10. Basic Situations. Broadsword reserves the precise to cancel, droop, or modify the Contest, (or any a part of it) if fraud, technical failure, human error or every other drawback impairs its correct operation. In that occasion, Broadsword could maintain a random drawing from amongst all eligible Entries acquired as much as the date of suspension for any of the prizes provided. Broadsword reserves the precise to disqualify any particular person 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 appearing in an unsporting or disruptive method. When you try and intentionally undermine the authentic operation of the Contest, it might be a violation of prison and/or civil legislation, and Broadsword reserves the precise to hunt damages from you to the extent permitted by legislation. Broadsword’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 should not liable for: (1) inaccurate info, whether or not brought on by entrants, typographical errors, or by tools 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 motive, together with entrant’s misunderstanding of the Official Guidelines and necessities or the entry course of. If for any motive 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 potential. Broadsword will award not more than the said variety of prizes. If manufacturing, technical, programming or every other causes trigger greater than the said variety of prizes to be obtainable and/or claimed, Broadsword reserves the precise to award solely the said variety of prizes. Some jurisdictions prohibit the restrictions described above, so some or all of them could not apply to you.

12. Disputes. Except 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 marketing and promotion of the Contest (“Disputes”), shall be resolved solely by binding arbitration in america below the legal guidelines of america. The one Disputes not coated by this Part are claims (i) concerning the infringement, safety or validity of your, Broadsword’s or Broadsword’s licensors’ commerce secrets and techniques or copyright, trademark or patent rights; and (ii) these introduced in small claims court docket.

• You and Broadsword shall first try and resolve any Dispute informally for not less than 30 days earlier than initiating arbitration. The casual negotiations begin upon receipt of written discover from one particular person to the opposite (“Discover of Dispute”). The Discover of Dispute should: (a) embody the total title and speak to info of the complaining celebration; (b) describe the character and foundation of the declare or dispute; and (c) set forth the particular reduction sought. Broadsword will ship its Discover of Dispute to the contact info in your Entry, or different tackle you present for this function. You’ll ship your Discover of Dispute to: Broadsword On-line Video games, 790 Station St. Herndon, VA 20170, ATTENTION: Authorized Division.
• When you and Broadsword can not resolve a Dispute informally, you or Broadsword could elect to have the Dispute lastly and solely resolved by binding arbitration. The arbitration shall be administered by the American Arbitration Affiliation (“AAA”) below its Business 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 performed in particular person, by the submission of paperwork, by telephone or on-line. The arbitrator shall decide in writing, and shall present a press release of causes if requested by both celebration. The arbitrator should comply with relevant legislation, and any award could also be challenged if the arbitrator fails to take action. You and Broadsword could 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 BROADSWORD 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 particular person’s claims along with your claims and shall not preside over any sort of consultant or class continuing. The arbitrator could award declaratory or injunctive reduction solely in favor of the person celebration in search of reduction and solely to the extent obligatory to supply reduction warranted by that celebration’s particular person declare.
• When you reside in america, arbitration will happen at any affordable location handy for you. For residents outdoors america, arbitration shall be initiated within the County of San Mateo, State of California, United States of America, and also you and Broadsword conform to undergo the non-public jurisdiction of that court docket, to be able 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 convey towards Broadsword and points you an award that’s better in financial worth than Broadsword’s final written settlement provide made earlier than Broadsword makes its ultimate written submissions to the arbitrator, then Broadsword will: pay you 150% of your arbitration award, as much as $5,000 USD (or equal in your nationwide foreign money) over and above your arbitration award, and reimburse the arbitration charges that you simply paid to the AAA.
• For residents of Australia: The Contest is ruled by the legal guidelines of america, offered that you’ll not be disadvantaged of your statutory rights and authorized safety as a shopper granted by the legal guidelines of Australia. The court docket of jurisdiction shall be your nation of residence.

13. Winner Record. Broadsword will publish the winner checklist at https://www.swtor.com/information/information following winner verification.

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