EVE General Discussion

I already stopped maintaining the fund in the past, I got asked to resume it (just to restate again how the poster before you is wrong).

If CCP will do this campaign, having resumed the fund will prove to have been a positive choice in the long run.

Exactly my point. They need help today.

http://www.charitynavigator.org/ <- Pick your own Charity.

CCP have a pretty big problem with this. We all know their finances aren't bad, but they aren't that good either. So while for us donating PLEX or isk is an in game loss it doesn't affect our real lives.

For CCP every Plex donated is $15 or so off their revenue. So when 'we' donate $40,000 worth of Plex/isk to the charity in fact CCP lose $40,000 worth of money.

CCP can't turn around to us and say no we want the money for ourselves. if they did that the community would eat them alive. My guess is they will keep quiet and hope it blows over.

Honestly, I'm really uncomfortable with the idea of people arbitrarily obligating CCP to "do something", then holding their feet to the fire when a response doesn't roll around fast enough.

CCP never said "Hey guys, you collect the PLEX, we'll do the donations". I can't go to my employer after the fact and say "Hey employer, we all worked overtime in volunteer, now you donate the money WHY AREN'T YOU DONATING FASTER!" Add in, there's likely a bunch of tax reasons CCP would have to consider, and it turns into a complex cluster.

This could have been done a lot better if the middleman in the situation already had a RL donation fund established. Collet X number of PLEX, donate X dollars, then apply PLEX to your own account/seek a reimbursement for CCP if they wanted to get involved.


For those who actually want to do something to help right now, a real cash donation to your choice of disaster relief charity will be much appreciated. For those of us who can't afford a cash donation, I recommend giving blood. One pint of blood can be turned into ~$180 or so, only costs you a little pain, and hey, you get juice and cookies!

BONUS: Anyone who donates cash to disaster relief/donates blood, I'll dedicate a miner gank in your honor. Don't even have to send proof, just let me know you did it. Seriously, can't get any better than that! (Carebears who don't want miner ganks dedicated can redeem their token as a "reverse gank", where I just warn a target that they could have been ganked)

It did not go like you say. My charity thread (linked in my signature) shows that I have asked CCP FIRST and they were OK.

If I get a blue OK and then also a separate game ticket also getting a CCP representative saying that yes the relief initiatives are still active, then I believe their word and act accordingly.

There was nothing "rained upon them" nor "obligating them". Had they said "no sorry we don't do this any more" then I'd have closed the charity for the second and last time.

It's not my fault that a scale 5 tornado hit Philippines "too soon" after those replies.

I can toss about 50b towards this if it gets started. Is there another thread I missed or are we still waiting?

Like an huge ton of other CCP articles, the linked blog apparently fell victim of their website remake.
If you go check the EvEpedia PLEX for Haiti chapter, it also shows my same link and it also goes to a 404 error.

As for asking CCP, I posted a forum question which got replied. I also created multiple in game tickets. The representative who replied me with the most in detail has been CCP Falcon. However as I posted some pages ago, he forbad me to disclose anything told.

I'll let slip this out: if you don't see me burning the forum 24/7 it's because he told some positive stuff.

Got some "Help The Phillipines" propaganda from one of the "aid agencies" today.

Unsolicited, of course, it's just addressed to "box holder" as this is largely how such organizations work -- they pay the post office to spam entire areas with glossy flyers designed to separate folks from their hard earned coin.

So...NO... I am not sending $75 for a new GOAT, that will be purchased in some far off place for the local equivalent of $1 or E1... so that the CEO and his cronies can line their pockets with the other $74 under some obscure heading called "Administration Costs".

The bigger the "disaster", the bigger the scam.

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