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Agreed. It would be a great shame if they stopped it.



Your precision in these matters doesn't surprise me and I know that the need to do it right provides a lot of stress. Perhaps now is the time to work out a system that would take some of that pressure off? Given that the absolutely banned scamming around PLEX for good, perhaps CCP could be persuaded to help set up something that would be easier to manage in the long term.

Edit - And as a side note, I for one am very grateful that you do continue to run this. Especially as I feel a bit guilty about pressuring you to start it up again after you had closed it down cleanly the first time. If there is anything I can do to help, just let me know.

I wish once again to publicly thank you both for your take on this responsibility, for your upstanding attitude (yeah I *did* say I am lawful good so I talk like this ), on your unmatched sustained effort at keeping your sister fund running AND reporting its NAV.

You and the other high value foundations of the "good side of MD" deserve an answer and as such, as I have mentioned in posts above, I have created an ingame ticket. I have asked CCP about their official stance on the charity initiatives, expecially wether if they are going to start more "PLEX for XXXX" initiatives in the future or not.

Just to let people know, we are currently discussing our next charity drive. I am unable to comment if it will be a PLEX for Good drive like in the past, but we have not abandoned our charity initiatives.

CCP - making the pointless grinding of isk retrospectively meaningful since 2010.

Perhaps I'm being optimistic but the fact he posted in a thread about collecting isk for charity donations and didn't say that this stuff here is a waste of time seemed positive.

On the other hand, CCP do have something of a reputation for being less than clear when they don't want to be the bearers of bad news. And to flat out say they will not be doing isk/plex based charity drives in the near future would more or less equate to a negative statement about the health of their company's finances, assuming that the whole PLEX for Good thing was based on the fact that they could write such charitable donations off against the tax they paid on their profit. The problem with that is you need to have some profit in the first place and with the very significant profits from EvE draining out to their rather less successful projects it may well be that they are officially running at a loss now. I remember that in previous financial statements they were logging the code being developed for DUST as an asset valued at the cost of producing said code but I suspect they won't be able to maintain the fiction that that particular asset is still worth what it cost to produce for too long in the face of the reality of that game's failure.

Presumably they will still have to write down the value of the asset at some point to its actual value and not the cost of production? My knowledge of accountancy is less than slim but I understand that you can only get away with these kind of creative devices for so long before you have to re-value the asset at a realistic level. At which point CCP will book a large loss. I think ...

Seems like it's been a while since CCP did any donations for RL disasters. What about this typhoon business in the Philippines? Is there anyone we can contact to see if they plan a donation of some sort?

AC155, I have posted an official request on GD. I hope it'll get some sort of support!

That 35b is currently in a bond, normally i would find a replacement investor but in this case it's looking like the loan will be defaulting. So in this scenario I could always front the isk until that liquidation is finished.

Np at all m8, glad somebody is keeping stats