EVE General Discussion

This is a nonsense. Charities are scrutinised, you can go through the many charity options and see how much each one spends on administration etc and you can even designate your donation so it can only be spent on relief for the people you're trying to help. For more information read here.

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=1659#.UoubhPlSiuo

Maybe some charities are shady but the tools to work out which exist. As in eve, do your homework.

Sure, someone buys a PLEX for $20, then you buy it for ISK and donate it and $15 goes to charity. CCP keeps $5, corruption in Iceland makes another $5 disappear, corruption in the the Philippines makes another $5 disappear, and only $5 makes it where it's needed.

Still nice that you can help people using your ISK, but CCP really didn't have to pocket 25%.

At last!!!!!

Time is short and because of the uncertainty we are behind the times. Please go all out with the charity!

Charity is not giving meaningless play money. It's actually trying to help.
To think that you should be able to play a game, and donate some of the proceeds to disaster relief is embarrassing.

Charity: "generous actions or donations to aid the poor, ill, or helpless: "

Generosity comes from the real world, from real things, from real work., not a fantasy game. You play for fun, so I see no generosity here, just laziness.
You want to help, go out and start a canned food drive, donate cloths that don't fit, make an actual difference.

People can, and are doing both.

The people in the Philippines are not going to say "Holy ****, lets turn down that $10k because it came from a game.

Many charitable things done are also fun.....like sitting in a bath of beans for a day, wearing a red nose, having a gaming marathon, doing a sponsored walk, changing your hair colour. Are these events not fun? Are they not charitable?

"Real things"......Real hours are spent getting the isk for plex. Real money is being donated.

The Filipinos and the charities assisting them do not give a **** that the money is generated through "leisure time" activities, because, unless you are a professional fundraiser, all charity is done in your spare time.

I'm terribly sorry that the $60,- I pledged (=4 Plex) doesn't count as real life help to those in need in your view. Mind you, in real life that amount of money roughly equals the amount I have left (after paying all the bills) to spend on food for my family of five in a bloody week! Money earned by working hard....
I have kids to feed, by donating Plex I can feed some other kids halfway across the planet in a country devastated by a natural disaster.
The fact that this way I can do both, DOES make an actual difference in my book!

Ok, challenge taken.

Here's my personal RL cash donationthat will add to the one done in EvE.

Now the ball is in YOUR court.

Post YOUR donation receipt, or disappear in shame.

Updates:

The VAERT charity is receiving tons of donations: 3B in liquid cash from RAW23 (your Top Donor of all time!) but also a plethora of PLEXes to exchange or gifted.


In case you also wish to donate something please follow these donations / contract guidelines.

1) please make SURE to include a description clearly stating it's for PLEX for Good. CCP will eventually check my account, everything is best to be as easy, linear and easily understood as possible.

2) In case you contract items (i.e. mods) please only contract them at Jita IV CNAP or maximum at Dodixie distance and in contiguous high sec to Jita.

3) In case you are vaguely thinking about setting up a fake contract, a scam contract and similar, be warned that CCP WILL perma ban your account, because we are operating in special EULA rules here. Just look at the above linked blog and read the last, bolded lines talking about CCP's stance on charity scams.

Think I'm misunderstanding something here, you buy a plex for x amount and then give that plex to ccp, ccp then take out the charges and give what's left to the charity?

Surely to make a real difference and avoid all the extra charges is would be better to donate the original amount to the red cross in the first place?

Don't get me wrong and I may be missing something here, but this sounds like a popularity stunt more than actually trying to help those that really need it.

Wouldn't it not be better to have links to the international charities and relief efforts rather than wasting money on VAT which if I'm correct you can claim back against any charitable donation made.

Before someone gets on their soapbox I'm all for giving to aid relief and help people and I also realise those that have more time than money can earn the isk to buy plex to donate, which is great, but it just didn't read like that to me, so if I have the wrong end of the stick please feel free to correct me.