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  Guess this is cool, but a single day's subscription revenue would be way more substantial. : ryuuseki
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    ...or they could have done nothing. What have you done? : : DM7
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      Donated more than 1/365th of my salary to Charity last year? : ryuuseki
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        And your negative complaint about a SINGLE donation (which does not equal all of Blizzard's charitable do... : schmads
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          They donated half their sales for a fucking pet. The man hours to create a pet must be in the 10's or 20'... : ryuuseki
          • Or they could have given nothing and then you would not be upset at them at all. This just proves people ... : Evil Benius
          • Just be glad they did anything at all. You're probably a communist anyways. : anbilow
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            half of sales is pretty damned good for a charity drive. most retailers don't do that much. A lot of time... : mindmann
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              Sales... of a virtual good which cost almost nothing (relative to revenue) to make. I think this is why I... : ryuuseki
              • I picked a random cause off the top of my head: http://www.techlicious.com/buyers-guide/products-that-... : mindmann
          • Goddamnit, just shut up. : walker270
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            http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100001530 They're starting to donate 100% of sales now. A... : Viprime
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              Good for them. That's great to see. The vitriol coming out of the WoW camp for me pointing this out is in... : ryuuseki
              • If you were straight up with people telling them that only 50% was going to charity I doubt any sane pers... : Evil Benius
              • Congrats, dude, you just stole the title of the Worst Poster on the Shack from cptstern. That takes a ... : walker270
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                Except Blizzard didn't post about it. Xav de Matos wrote an article on the Shack linking to a report mad... : slax0r
                • And it doesn't look like the money made off pet sales was originally intended to go to charity. : jojoeasy
              • Assuming you made it clear from the start in the same way that Blizzard did that 50% of the purchasing pr... : Arsenal
              • Wow. This is one of the dumbest fucking posts I've seen in a long time. : Ambient80
              • People aren't responding negatively to your post because you dared criticize Blizzard or WoW. They are re... : deveus1
              • Has nothing to do with the "WoW camp" - you're being a dick. : TheNiXXeD
              • lol "WoW camp" you just sound like an asshole : AllYourBase
          • Blizzard has absolutely no obligation (aside from maybe some good PR) to give to charity in the first pla... : Orange Pylon
          • Aww. Did they nurf your favorite class recently? Join the fucking club. : mystifier
        • ryuuseki is *very* charitable. He's let me bum more than 5 smokes off him. : Beef-
      • wow you're a douche : sreyes22
      • hahahaha : oneshot
  • Your post is the worst post today. : LoioshDwaggie
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    How dare they only contribute 800k. You're an idiot btw. : Senate5000
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      $800,000 of other people's money. : JarEme
      • ... where do you think money comes from? : nevlos
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        No, i'm pretty sure when people bought the pet that money became Blizzard's. : Arsenal
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          No, money generated through the promise of its donation to the charity was never Blizzard's to keep. : JarEme
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            I seriously doubt they promised to donate 100% and then kept half of it, that would be horrible PR. : Evil Benius
            • I'm not trying to say that they did. I'm saying that Blizzard doesn't really deserve credit for the donat... : JarEme
        • Wrong. Money has no owners, only spenders. : Lucy Labia
      • Hahahahaha... oh wow. : Ambient80
      • lol : Durajim
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      this kind of response is OK now? "You're an idiot?" : steelsamurai
      • In this case? It absolutely should be. : walker270
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        I suppose that was a little more insulting than it needed to be. How about "your post is idiotic"? (not... : Senate5000
        • "Check your password because someone else is logging on and writing idiotic posts." : mindmann
  • really dude? : atom519
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    A single day's subscription revenue would be way more substantial, but a week's day subscription revenue ... : OverloadUT
    • Fuck that, any money they are making from subscriptions or anything other than the discs, paper and cardb... : Arsenal
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    They were also matching employee donations in March, duder. : slax0r
    • Yeah, but they weren't matching employee SALARIES to charity! /gun : walker270
• nice tax write off : mo13
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  And they got the drive for Japan going right now, started a couple of days ago I believe. Can't believ : SilverSnake
  • interesting that the Japan one is 100% rather than the MAW which was 50%. : daggot
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    The more impressive number is probably the cost & time & people to implement the pets. They probably got... : Wombat Woo
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      You'd be surprised. I oversaw the process for making weapons for a video game and it was definitely a cou... : azshack
      • I think a lot of the items blizzard is selling are things that are just reskinned. They are already buil... : Lucy Labia
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  Just be glad they did anything at all. You're probably a communist anyways. : anbilow
  • ugh, failpost. : anbilow
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  I remember reading something they did for a Make-A-Wish kid. It was pretty impressive, but I can't remem... : D45hiz
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    http://www.wowwiki.com/Ahab_Wheathoof : walker270
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      More direct link : http://www.wowwiki.com/Ezra_Chatterton Also... :'( : walker270
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        What a sweet story. :') : DM7
        • It was sad when he died I think it was a year later. :-( They did make an elder named after him in Thunde... : Chod
• http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=5254&p= : Godhatesfatpeople
• That's lunch money to them : Metatron85
• Only 800k? PFFT. Even if rounded up to 1 million....1 million isn't cool. You know what's cool? One.... : darkT
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  For someone who had a family member who was able to have their own Make-A-Wish, Thank you Blizzard. : cryptical
  • It is great that make a wish can exist and provide the services they do. No one is saying anything to the... : ryuuseki
• How about they be charitable and give us diablo 3 this year? : saunders45
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  Alright you fuckers, let's all match Blizzards contributions to a charity of your choice. Based off total... : ryuuseki
  • I don't understand why you're being so stubborn about this. Nobody's trying to argue Blizzard is a magica... : jipey
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    Because hey, we all know Blizzard has only made this one donation and never will make another, right? Nic... : Ambient80
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      Again this isn't really their donation so much as a proxied group donation that they got to capitalize on... : ryuuseki
      • Wait, so it IS Blizzard's donation when we make figures, but it's not when we're not making figures? I do... : Ambient80
      • Does your horse have a name? In this subthread we name ryuuseki's horse! Duke Smarmy von Huffanpuff. : ninj0rc
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    Do humanity a favor and stick your face in a blender. : walker270
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      How Christian of you!! : ryuuseki
      • Good thing I'm not a Christian! : walker270
  • and if they had done nothing we wouldn't even be discussing it. Why are you so against this? : AllYourBase
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  I'm glad the rich white kids in hospitals get to visit Blizzard while thousands of people die of hunger a : Memphis-Ahn
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    I wasn't planning on commenting in this thread, but I'll go out of my way to respond to this. Usually kid... : TylerJSmith
    • Hell, I wish I could re-do my wish and request to visit Blizzard. I chose poorly and visited the set of S... : TylerJSmith
• It's going to come back to them towards getting Diablo 3 out sooner if they happen to get the wrong kid : Sailor of Fortune