I just saw a few minutes ago the announcing of the next writing contest sponsored by Blizzard. I must say I was intending to submit a story and have been waiting for it for a few months now.
However, to my surprise I cannot do it. In fact, a lot of people cannot do it. Not that I’m not of age, not that I have any problem with the English language, not that I have any sort of legal restriction pending upon me. Nope. Not at all. Nothing. The problem is that I’m Portuguese. Yep. That’s it.
In fact, there is a list of countries whose citizens are able to participate in the afore mentioned contest but Portugal, by some strange purpose, is not one of them. Nor it is Italy. Or Greece. Or Poland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and so many others. EU members. Just to name a few.
So, it seems, that for Blizzard, those who pay are not all equal. As George Orwell wrote, in ‘Animal Farm’: all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

I must say that never before have I looked at Blizzard as being a farm owner, though we do a lot of farming in the game. But now I’m beginning to change my views towards the company and, considering the cultural level of the American farmer’s community, I decided to explain a couple things.

So, for the sake of adding some culture and knowledge …

global [ˈgləʊbəl]
adj 1. covering, influencing, or relating to the whole world
2. comprehensive
globally adv

As you can see, Blizzard lads and lasses, when you say that something is global, it means that you should encompass the whole world. I know that the average – and sometimes not only average – American believes his/her country to be the world. I’m sorry to destroy that innocent view but it is not. If you take your time to look at a world map – also known in Latin as Mappa Mundi (you can add that to your education bag, for free) – you’ll notice that the world has a little more than your country, the Canadians and a few things more. Imagine that not even all speak English.

Also, you should consider hiring someone to review your English. You know … your English usually sucks. Throughout the game, there are spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. We, the players and customers, know that it is nearly impossible to have a pristine game in place. With the thousands of lines of text you have to write and publish in game, of course an error here and there is acceptable. But when we come to phrasing errors, to grammatical inconsistencies and systematic errors, then I think you have a problem and should hire someone to review it.

Even at your contest announcement you made mistakes. You know, usually, the ‘The’ is there for some purpose. Like, for instance, the ‘articulation’ purpose. An example, extracted from your own announcing of the afore mentioned Global Writing Contest:
“Disclaimer. Sponsor, all participating sponsors, (…)”
Maybe you’re seeing now, are you not? Yeah ….. that’s it …. It should be “The” Sponsor and so on … See? You can ask a lot of people from the countries you do not allow participating in your not so global contest. They can teach you that … yes … they can.

I think I made my point. If you need, I can also make a drawing. And I’d like to apologise for my English. Fortunately, you’ll not have to suffer it in your … Global Contest.

Pray, accept my best regards.