"What? You mean all I'm doing is helping children and not buying justification for my entitled attitudes? I demand a refund!"
Internet mockery is not enough.
Internet mockery is not enough.
Child's Play Halts Retake Mass Effect Donation Drive
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I guess some people don't read what they buy, I want my donation back, that makes you so much worse than anyone just bitching about the ending, I mean you wouldn't donate a bag of clothes to the salvation army and then go back the next week and ask for them back...
I'd still like to know exactly what a 'high' amount is, but that's still 80 grand give or take for charity. The reasons don't matter, if they got 80 grand and the only downside was they had to field some calls from a few dozen douchebags who thought it was going to 'buy' them a new ending, you know what? Worth it. All damn day.
I'm glad I donated $20. BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT EA, THATS $20 YOUR ASSES WILL NOT BE GETTING FOR ANY ME3 DLC. I WILL NOT PAY for a complete ME3 ending unless that DLC is as complete and massive as the FO3 "Broken Steel" DLC. Anything less is a disservice to BioWare and your customers.
That alone is fucking disgusting. I cannot believe I'm a part of a community full of whiny, entitled, and egotistical assholes. For years, we've been struggling with the stigma that gamers, as a whole, are hopeless losers who are prone to violence and childish behavior, and here we are proving them right.Tycho said:
Penny Arcade's Child's Play (and by extension, Desert Bus) has been one of the greatest and most wholesome thing to come out of the gaming community, and has really helped quell the image that we're mindless slaves to "murder simulators", and just because a single AAA game had a sub-par ending, the gaming community managed to turn this into a fucking circus. Donate because you want to help Child's Play, not because your unwarranted self-importance demands that you somehow deserve a better ending simply because you may or may not have actually purchased the product.
I'm sick of this attitude. It needs to fucking stop. No other medium of entertainment stoops so low as to make petitions and campaigns over such trivial bullshit.
You don't see people sending death threats to Michael Bay's personal phones in response to Transformers.
You don't see people making massive online petitions to boycott Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing... or Brian Herbert's Sisterhood of Dune.
You don't see people withdrawing their donations from a food drive because they wanted a different ending to The Sopranos.
We're supposed to show the world that we're much more mature than this, and instead we're turning into another self-indulgent internet mob.
[HEADING=1]Go fuck yourselves[/HEADING]
I'm sorry, did I need to explicitly say that I didn't mean all the fans? Pardon me for having a little faith in this forum to not make such assumptions. Well, I won't make that mistake again. I'll be sure to spell things out real slowly from now on. Just for you.aftohsix said:
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So since when exactly did all of gaming journalism become the bad guys? Is this a new thing or have I just been not paying attention?
You'd be amazed. I work in customer service and the stupidity I see... trackless, infinite fields of stupidity. People seem to think their money is more valuable than it really is.Versuvius said:
(No, "in store warranty" does NOT mean I'll get on a plane and fly out to fix your computer because you moved to Saudi Arabia and we don't have stores outside North America. Yes, I know you're only one year into your two year warranty.)
People tend not to read things, and it's not at all surprising that there's a portion of folks who got confused about just what they were really donating money for. It's fair, if unfortunate, that they decided to ask for their money back. On the one hand, they're not getting what they believed they were paying for, on the other...it's a charity, people.
The items that BioWare had donated previously isn't a fair comparison at all. Lots of companies donate items to Child's Play's yearly auction, and the connection is always very clear. In return for your money, you will get this specific thing. In the case of Retake Mass Effect, the "thing" wasn't at all clear.
I think it's wonderful that Child's Play is $80k richer. If there's a silver lining to this whole ME3 affair, that's a great one.
The items that BioWare had donated previously isn't a fair comparison at all. Lots of companies donate items to Child's Play's yearly auction, and the connection is always very clear. In return for your money, you will get this specific thing. In the case of Retake Mass Effect, the "thing" wasn't at all clear.
I think it's wonderful that Child's Play is $80k richer. If there's a silver lining to this whole ME3 affair, that's a great one.
I applaud the donators who helped raise 80,000 for children who deserve to enjoy video games as much as anyone else. If anything, you guys ARE the good ending to Mass Effect 3. Thank you.
I don't get all these people going "garrr, it's so selfish and/or childish for RME to cling onto a charity like that!"
Surely doing the right thing for (what you consider) the wrong reasons, is still the right thing in the end? Furthermore what kind of cynical creature must you be to try and cast people who just collectively raised $80,000 in a bad light?
Can't help but see the irony in that the people who are critical of RME calling RME childish, and then proceeding to let their personal feelings towards RME get in the way of recognizing that a huge pile of money was just raised.
Hold the line
Surely doing the right thing for (what you consider) the wrong reasons, is still the right thing in the end? Furthermore what kind of cynical creature must you be to try and cast people who just collectively raised $80,000 in a bad light?
Can't help but see the irony in that the people who are critical of RME calling RME childish, and then proceeding to let their personal feelings towards RME get in the way of recognizing that a huge pile of money was just raised.
Hold the line
In other words EA bitched that they were making them lose money and threatened with lawyers. Charities wouldn't care that the money they're getting is from a source like this unless they were getting negative feed back.
The people that gave negative feed back to Child's Play donation drive should be dragged out onto the street and shot.
The people that gave negative feed back to Child's Play donation drive should be dragged out onto the street and shot.
how is anybody confused about what was going on? it was fairly straightforward... once again, stupid people ruin good things.
also, i'm not sure RTM would be the best acronym. RME seems more accurate.
also, i'm not sure RTM would be the best acronym. RME seems more accurate.
The problem is the bottom-line motivation for the fundraiser was more then a little blurry. I approve of giving money to Child's Play in and of itself, but what was essentially implied (whether intended or not) was that 'We gave money to charity for a new ending Bioware, so if you don't give us one that the same as saying you're against charity' or to put it more succinctly 'Your ending makes sick children cry!', and that for me qualifies as some serious emotional blackmail, which I'm afraid I can't support.Lethos said:I don't get all these people going "garrr, it's so selfish and/or childish for RME to cling onto a charity like that!"
Surely doing the right thing for (what you consider) the wrong reasons, is still the right thing in the end? Furthermore what kind of cynical creature must you be to try and cast people who just collectively raised $80,000 in a bad light?
Can't help but see the irony in that the people who are critical of RME calling RME childish, and then proceeding to let their personal feelings towards RME get in the way of recognizing that a huge pile of money was just raised.
Hold the line
If you want to give money to Child's Play, then do, and feel free to feel good about it. But don't hijack the cause in order to strong-arm people into doing what you say. That's not 'doing the right thing for the wrong reasons', that's 'making a mockery of the concept of charity'.