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Sabriz Adoudel
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Posted - 2013.11.10 22:12:00 -
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If this takes off, I will donate what I can. Would need to liquidate some in-game assets but can't see any reason I can't chip in a billion ISK or so. I would prefer Doctors Without Borders if they are active in the Phillipines as I feel they are the best charity around, but my contribution won't be conditional on that.
If I have any luck scamming over the next few days, I might be able to make that two billion (come on, courier contract scam, work for me for once...)
To the detractors - what CCP do for these charity drives is effectively 'refund' the donated PLEX for $15 less a small admin fee (the fee representing their costs, not a profit), then all the money made that way goes to the charity drive. Basically it's a way to turn the in-game greed of people that buy bulk PLEX into a way for those of us with more in-game resources than RL money to donate to an emergency fund. Or alternately, it can be thought of as non-illicit RMT where the money is for charity, not some shady RMT company.
CCP get massive PR out of it at a quite small price, the Phillipines fund gets some urgently needed cash, and quite a bit of it comes from people that otherwise could not afford to donate to the charity because they are broke IRL. |
Sabriz Adoudel
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Posted - 2013.11.11 00:57:00 -
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If this takes off, any time I am in a position to offer a ship ransom, I will insist on the ISK going to this fund rather than to me. Will make for some interesting piracy.
"Give 2 PLEX/USD 30 to the Phillipines appeal, or your Machariel becomes scrap metal". |
Sabriz Adoudel
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Posted - 2013.11.11 01:32:00 -
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On what CCP gain from this - it's really the publicity.
If 3000 PLEX are turned in, prices for PLEX will increase enough that likely another 2500 will sell that otherwise would not have sold (either to people intending to resell, or to people who sometimes subscribe via in-game purchased PLEX and sometimes via a monthly sub). So CCP end up down USD 7500 or so in revenue. Plus maybe two days of one employee being 'unproductive', so let's call that a total of USD 8000.
However, they would pay A LOT more than USD 8000 for the sort of publicity the game will get out of a charity drive that raises USD 45000 directly, and that also indirectly raises money by promoting awareness of the Philippines crisis among players of one of the games with the highest proportions of medium to well paid professionals in gaming. |
Sabriz Adoudel
Mission BLITZ
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Posted - 2013.11.11 11:33:00 -
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Filed a petition to get a ruling on some things related to this idea (can you demand a ransom payable to the fund instead of yourself, are you required to honor such ransoms, etc). Of note in the reply was word that CCP are looking into the original idea.
On the ransom questions - for PR reasons (charity PR not CCP PR) CCP would prefer this is not done. Just steal ISK as normal, then optionally tell the victim you are donating the heist to this appeal. I will accept this. Last thing I want is someone claiming out of game to the charity that they were coerced into making a donation.
But yes, GMs at least knew about this initiative before I contacted them.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=238931 - an idea for a new form of hybrid PVE/PVP content.
The difference between an enemy and a friend is that you stab your enemies in the front. |
Sabriz Adoudel
Mission BLITZ
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Posted - 2013.11.13 23:32:00 -
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Kaserin Smarte wrote:Sorry if this comment does not belong here but....
I have an idea for the future of EVE and a chance for CCP to give back easily & all the time. My idea is that CCP takes all the ISK that gets taken but goes no where. You know the ISK that I give to a station for the use of its facilities or w.e. The ISK that just goes to no one in EVE. I forget what that is called a ISK drain maybe I don't know. CCP could take all that ISK & instead of making it disappear they could collect it. They could either take all of the ISK or a certain % of it & use that to give to charities. They could hold monthly, quarterly, or w.e events. Where we the players vote on a charity to give that months or w.e earnings to a charity. These events could also be used by players to set up their own player events. Where they get their corps/alliances to just dump massive amounts of ISK into the drains. Then CCP could just put a simple poll up on the website of charities for us to choose from. We could even give the isk to top 3 (maybe top 5 or however many the math lets us) most voted for instead of just 1 charity. OP your group could lead the charge for this change. Now I don't know the mechanics behind these "ISK drains" and maybe it wont work but it was just a thought. Once again I am sorry if this was too off topic.
Won't work. Those ISK drains are there to reduce inflation, your suggestion would see the ISK pumped back into the economy which would cause the PLEX price to skyrocket.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=238931 - an idea for a new form of hybrid PVE/PVP content.
The difference between an enemy and a friend is that you stab your enemies in the front. |
Sabriz Adoudel
Mission BLITZ
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Posted - 2013.11.13 23:35:00 -
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Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:A newborn player has just sent 10M to the charity: probably all he had. He also opted to remain anonymous.
I am going to send him 100M off my personal wallet for the gesture!
/bows
Vaerah Vahrokha - EVE's second ever legit ISK doubler :)
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=238931 - an idea for a new form of hybrid PVE/PVP content.
The difference between an enemy and a friend is that you stab your enemies in the front. |
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