Help Haiti by Playing Halo
- Thread starter Logan Westbrook
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As it has been said before:
- If people truly want to help then they should just donate £1/$1 of their own cash; it is 10 times the amount and hardly taxing for people.
- If Bungie truly cared, they'd just give the money up right rather than making people play their damn game to donate. What this translates to is "If you play our game we will show compassion to dying people, if you don't we won't.".
Obviously this is better than nothing but still, all this "They are amazing and generous" crap is kind of worrisome.
- If people truly want to help then they should just donate £1/$1 of their own cash; it is 10 times the amount and hardly taxing for people.
- If Bungie truly cared, they'd just give the money up right rather than making people play their damn game to donate. What this translates to is "If you play our game we will show compassion to dying people, if you don't we won't.".
Obviously this is better than nothing but still, all this "They are amazing and generous" crap is kind of worrisome.
Perhaps you paid for you Xbox Live membership up front, because it's cheaper to do so? Or perhaps you bought your membership for the month, not expecting there to be a major humanitarian appeal part way through, and so didn't budget accordingly.hansari said:Hold on.Logan Westbrook said:
If you can afford xboxlive, how can you be so "strapped for cash" that you can't just pitch in money yourself. Skip the middle man, give ten cents yourself. (if you wanna feel like a cheap b*st*rd)
Ah...77,000.
Bungie and their number 7.
Good on them. It's probably hit 77k already at this point, though. Considering the number of Halo games played.
Bungie and their number 7.
Good on them. It's probably hit 77k already at this point, though. Considering the number of Halo games played.
Yeah what a great message, 'sit on your ass and play videogames, we'll donate the money and sort out all the difficult bits for you', nevermind the fact that Bungie could easily donate the $77k without you all playing the game, but oh no god forbid, then people would not know the generosity of bungie!
If they really wanted to help why don't they supply those maps or gamemodes with in-game advertising, the revenue of which could go towards Haiti too, i'm sure that not many people would object to seeing a billboard for Coke if it meant that the donation went from 10 cents from every player to a dollar (exact figure may be different, i don't specialize in marketing or advertising, i'm not an asshole) it's for a good cause right?
If they really wanted to help why don't they supply those maps or gamemodes with in-game advertising, the revenue of which could go towards Haiti too, i'm sure that not many people would object to seeing a billboard for Coke if it meant that the donation went from 10 cents from every player to a dollar (exact figure may be different, i don't specialize in marketing or advertising, i'm not an asshole) it's for a good cause right?
yeaaaah noooooo. these corporations aren't helping at all. They are just saying they will but never do. And the only reason anyone gives a fuck about that country because obama wants to help. the king of claiming stupid people to believe in lies is back again
Lol, give me a break. Nature tried to put these guys out of their misery, now others are giving them cash so they can linger on in prolonged suffering.
Well that's disturbing.ostro-whiskey said:
And that's sad.Skullkid4187 said:
I think the idea is a great COMPLEMENT to regular donations.
Seriously, unless you're a heartless excuse of a human being -- contribute to Doctors Without Borders or any similar organization.
That's a nice gesture.
I do not own (or like) Halo 3 but it's still a nice way to help out some unlucky folk.
I do not own (or like) Halo 3 but it's still a nice way to help out some unlucky folk.
Oh I'm sorry, now that other people are helping have you lost your sense of self righteousness? You totally caught me there, I was about to go and donate some money to help but now I won't.Undead Warfare said:
And let's look at this properly; Bungie is almost certainly going to donate all that money, irrelevant of how many people play. This is just a nice way for people to feel like they're taking part.
You know, when one person says they want to do something good and loads of people want to follow him and do good things too, I think that's a positive thing. There's a word for it, what is it now; oh yeah, inspirational. I'm also fairly sure that donating $77,000 will help. Bungie could go back on it, but are you seriously suggesting that they would risk looking like the biggest bastards in the world and being the target of dozens of lawsuits just because they want to increase the number of people online for one day?Skullkid4187 said:
You know its fine that everyone is helping, its just retarded that NOW all the public starts giving a shit about the country. Even then they're only giving a shit to make themselves look better.awsome117 said:
And honestly, just like the map pack restrictions being put off, its just another way to get their massively decreasing pop back up.
Or maybe because a major disaster happened, and people feel like they should do something to help? I mean, what do you want people to do? Drop whatever they're doing to help a country out all the time? People can only do so much.Undead Warfare said:
And hold up a second. Could, maybe for a second, people actually do GOOD things without having something to gain out of it? I know that's a hard concept for you to understand, but bear with me for a minute...
Sure, Bungie could just give Haiti the 77K. But, they're are getting other people (their fan base) involved as well. Maybe, just maybe, to get them to do nice for other people. And after this, they'll start doing other nice things for people without rewards.
But hey, I give the human race too much credit I guess...
