I Tried to talk with nintendo about the exclusion of countries like Brazil (my country) from certain events like Audino, Croagunk (and now Zoroark). Just Look:
Date Created: 8/6/2011 4:56 AM PDT
Details: Hello, I have seen on Yahoo kids a promotion about a Audino C-Gear Skin, but I'm having no access to it, I click on promotions but just 4 promotions appears to me: The World Championship Skin, Minccino Skin, Pikachu Skin and Munna Skin. Why Audino Skin doesn't appear to me?
OK, after that, they asked me a print screen from my promotion area. I gave then all the information they asked, then waited a month for the answer:
Solved:
(9/7/2011 5:04 AM PDT)
Hello again Daniel,
We greatly appreciate your extraordinary patience. Please know that the regions for the Audino C-Gear skin have been finalized, and unfortunately it is only available in the US and Canada, not Brazil.
We do encourage you, however, to check Pokemon.com for announcements as promotions typically come around more than once!
Thank you for your fantastic support and we hope you are enjoying Pokemon!
Sincerely,
Pokemon Support Team
I send then my last question, it was more like a outflow and I want to share it:
Sorry, but Nintendo answer is "Keep looking inside pokemon.com site to see other events that you can't get"? That is just frustrating! If I just knew that I had to lie about the country I live to get event, I'd do it. But it seems that I'm banned from get C-gears (3 until now), and future pokémon and even online tournament just because I'm not from United States. Why put every country with english cartridge on the same site if you are going to exclude especific contries from your promotions?
Wouldn't be more reasonable to make it separated to each region of the world, so we would know what we could have and what we can't?
I'm a great pokémon fan, have a huge collection of pokémon games, when I started to think that finally I would have support from nintendo, after years seeing other countries having special events and my country don't...
Pokémon Global Link is an online and official server, it should be prepared to give support to all countries, not only to especific ones... sometimes it's the only way to some places have their special events. Don't take it from us, nintendo :(