EVE General Discussion

CCP helped Pakistan and Haiti, both far from rich.

How does a PLEX drive impact the PLEX market? Maybe CCP are wary of introducing a drive with PLEX riding high?

If you are worried about supply, CCP has loads of confiscated PLEXs that they have never been shy to release when need be. Perhaps the CCP character responsible for collecting PLEXs could instead sell those for people who wish to donate?

I don't see this happening. Destroying PLEX by taking them out of the game and converting them back into cash removes a liability for CCP (game time tokens) that has already been paid for by someone. All they are doing in this case is reversing the transaction, which is ultimately either cost-neutral or low in cost for them. Isk, on the other hand, is something that no one has paid them for and that is not a real life financial liability for them. Accepting isk donations that are not converted into PLEX will have a much higher real life cost for CCP.

If something stops CCP going ahead with this, I suspect it will be the fact that they don't have much in taxable profits at the moment, so they don't have much tax they can write off against a charitable donation. The failure of DUST is likely to have hit their books pretty hard and it may just be that with the best will in the world they simply don't have spare money to donate.

Hilmar is famous for letting dust settle before addressing issues... we need another 40something page threadnought to reassure CCP that the problem hasn't gone away by itself.

We can't let this fade off.

It's real people who are not getting an help, not some imaginary spacepixels.

Real people are dying and we sit here, unable to do what HAS to be done!

If anyone has actually seen the Philipphines up close they know no amount of money could help that country. Before this tragedy happened this country was already wrecked. This money will be a wasted endeavor just to make 1st world folks feel good about themselves thinking they will solve problems. Face facts, your money will be waisted. Your temporary feeling of moral superiority will only make you feel good. In terms of pragmatic practicality it does nothing.

Enjoy your 1st world problems, and not solving issues in the real world. You want to make a difference you actually do, there is no other solution. Mother nature is a nasty *****, your dollars mean **** to nature.

Thx,

In good news the death toll has dropped from 10k to 2500.

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If you're gonna troll at least make your post internally consistent.
"Face facts, your money will be waisted[sic]. Your temporary feeling of moral superiority will only make you feel good."
Surely spending money so one feels good is not wasting money? If the money really does nothing else, at least it has made one person feel better.

You can throw your money at the problem as you wish, it wont solve a thing. People here in the West dont care about the Philippines, what they do care about is to make themselves feel good that they are making a difference with the money they send over. I'm looking at what good was done since the 2004 Tsunami relief or the Haiti earthquake. All that was done was temporary feelings of self gratification that good deeds were done. But its a frugal exercise to donate 10$ to give someone food or water for a day. Same thing with when you have aid organizations giving food to nations in Africa. You give people the tools to become independent, not reliant consistently on the outside world. You want food for your people, here are the tools we will give you to grow, not consecutive hand outs that solve nothing. You want problems to not persist during emergencies, then fund the neccessary government organizations to do the hardwork through the national tax process & not pass it over to NGO's that'll be eager to waste a good chunk of the money on administrative costs. Let it be a government venture not a NGO venture.