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CCP, please let us, the players help the Philipphines!

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Sebastor Cane
The Outlet
#21 - 2013-11-10 17:31:30 UTC
What happened in the Philipines?
Estella Osoka
Cranky Bitches Who PMS
#22 - 2013-11-10 17:31:37 UTC
Screw this crap. You want to help out the Philippines. Donate your time and/or money to one of the relief organizations.

A list can be found here: Typhoon Haiyan Relief Organizations
Josef Djugashvilis
#23 - 2013-11-10 17:31:53 UTC
Beekeeper Bob wrote:
Why not actually send them money, rather than use in game isk to cover your donations?
Giving money out of your pocket means something, giving meaningless money from within a game is just weak.


Isk converted to real money is real money.

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Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#24 - 2013-11-10 17:35:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Rhivre
Estella Osoka wrote:
Screw this crap. You want to help out the Philippines. Donate your time and/or money to one of the relief organizations.

A list can be found here: Typhoon Haiyan Relief Organizations



the $4200 or so raised for japan is hardly "crap".


EDIT: Also, some of us can, and are doing both, there is nothing that says you can only donate one way.

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Rykker Bow
Center for Advanced Studies
#25 - 2013-11-10 17:36:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Rykker Bow
Nicor Syke'Nexen wrote:
You could just send a check to the Red Cross... just a suggestion


Very true Nicor and thanks for the link Lipbite!

I do donate to them and other charities with RL money. Fortunately, I’m able to give large ISK donations to VAERT. I’m not exactly sure how much I’ve donated over the years, or been a part of a drive to raise funds, but I can say that I’ve been able to donate a much higher comparable amount from ISK than RL money.

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Samroski
Middle-Earth
#26 - 2013-11-10 17:49:23 UTC
I have maintained a fund for this purpose for more than two years. The idea of using ISK for charity makes Eve more meaningful, and gives direction to my (Eve) life.

The last PLEX for good drive was in May 2011 iirc. Surely we need to give to charity more frequently, and there is no time like right now.

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Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#27 - 2013-11-10 18:05:47 UTC
I truly appreciate the many friends who wish to join me calling CCP to start a charity campaign! And this is really an emegency that hit hard!

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Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#28 - 2013-11-10 18:08:06 UTC
Estella Osoka wrote:
Screw this crap. You want to help out the Philippines. Donate your time and/or money to one of the relief organizations.

A list can be found here: Typhoon Haiyan Relief Organizations



Follow me:

1) It's perfectly possible to BOTH donate money and also participate in the PLEX for charity campaign, the two things are absolutely compatible.

2) Many could never send $4,000 as donation but as collective in this game we CAN and it adds nicely to the single person donations.

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RAW23
#29 - 2013-11-10 18:27:11 UTC
Beekeeper Bob wrote:
Why not actually send them money, rather than use in game isk to cover your donations?
Giving money out of your pocket means something, giving meaningless money from within a game is just weak.


Why not both? The fact we can give whatever we can afford out of game PLUS an extra chunk through our otherwise completely valueless in-game resources seems obviously better than insisting that people only give what they can afford out of game.

I also doubt anyone who receives aid paid for through PLEX donations will consider that money to be 'meaningless'. In fact, I strongly suspect that neither the Red Cross nor the end users could give the slightest damn about whether the money originated in a nerdy computer game or came from apple-cheeked children selling lemonade by the roadside. Money is money.

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MatrixSkye Mk2
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#30 - 2013-11-10 18:50:20 UTC  |  Edited by: MatrixSkye Mk2
Count me in. Earth needs more people like you.

Edit: I'll keep an eye on this thread, but please feel free to tap me in the back in case I don't respond quickly enough.

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Lyris Nairn
Perkone
Caldari State
#31 - 2013-11-10 18:53:44 UTC
No one is stopping you from donating.

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SKINE DMZ
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#32 - 2013-11-10 19:09:35 UTC
Would love to donate some ISK if it will be possible to convert back into money to help them in the Philippines, I will be keeping an eye on this or feel free to contact me for a donation if and when CCP gets back to you.

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Kaivar Lancer
Doomheim
#33 - 2013-11-10 19:11:21 UTC
Estella Osoka wrote:
Screw this crap. You want to help out the Philippines. Donate your time and/or money to one of the relief organizations.

A list can be found here: Typhoon Haiyan Relief Organizations


Donating PLEX is not mutually exclusive with donating time/money. Also can't believe that people are trolling over 10,000 dead victims.

+1 to the OP.
First Star Wolf
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#34 - 2013-11-10 19:16:33 UTC
As soon as CCP endorse this I'll donate 2 plex come on ccp
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#35 - 2013-11-10 19:22:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Vaerah Vahrokha
By the way if anyone wants to send ISK (I'd wait for CCP to confirm they'll do this charity drive first tbh), they should send it to the appropriate corp not to me. Same for contracted stuff. The corp is VAERT.

Step by step to do it in few seconds:

1) Copy and paste VAERT in a client chat.
2) Right click and link as corporation.
3) If you want to be very sure to have selected the correct corporation, you can click it. It's called Vahrokh's Emergencies Relief Trust.

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Chiyo Kawamura
Dissonance Corp
#36 - 2013-11-10 19:29:25 UTC
Come on CCP! I imagine there are a fair few plexes in the fund already, with the last plex for charity being so long ago and many more willing to donate if you confirm you will support this charity drive.

Make this one top of your agenda for Monday's meetings.
Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#37 - 2013-11-10 19:32:07 UTC
according to VVs sheet, there is about 76b in the various funds at the moment (unless I am reading it wrong)

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Lost Hamster
Hamster Holding Corp
#38 - 2013-11-10 19:33:15 UTC
+4 PLEX on contract.
Rykker Bow
Center for Advanced Studies
#39 - 2013-11-10 19:49:50 UTC
Beekeeper Bob wrote:
Why not actually send them money, rather than use in game isk to cover your donations?
Giving money out of your pocket means something, giving meaningless money from within a game is just weak.


Giving 'meaningless' money from within a game that is converted to REAL money is not weak. Also I can donate 40b in ISK that then converts to some serious real money. That 40b only costs me sweat equity which I have much of and is just as fulfilling as giving cash from my wallet.

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Mike Azariah
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#40 - 2013-11-10 21:36:51 UTC
A worthy idea and the silence from CCP is indicative of it being a weekend.

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