How can you be pressured to donate to this charity with this event? It’s a pet in an online game. Are people inspecting your armory to make sure you bough it?
I understand what you mean by the “peer pressure”, but it does not apply here. Southpark had a funny bit with Randy trying to refuse donation to a clerk in a grocery store.
Usually the pressure comes from the shame of saying no in public.
I wouldn’t let the compensation of Blizzard’s CEO keep me from donating to a worthwhile organization. If anything, I would just donate directly to DWB and bypass the pet. “Give expecting nothing in return.”
Well you can say that all you want, but i can look back on that thread and see exactly that when somebody disagrees or say a neutral opinion. And i also see some of those same people socially pressuring them, double down by saying “this isn’t neutral, it’s harmful opinion!” or something like that.
Maybe you don’t understand subtlety, so i refer to you to my second part of the response to lightray below.
I just dropped two links explaining that in the previous comments.
You’re thinking that it’s just a small group of people when it’s really not. Not on the internet, no. And again, this isn’t just applied to the actual harmful comments i’ve noticed in that thread, but the comments that isn’t even considered harmful or just neutral, or even questioning where the money goes is categorized as harmful just to say that person is being harmful to the charity.
So you agree that being socially pressured in a charity is a bad thing then?
All that thread shows is people disagreeing and giving blatant facts, while others cheer on encouragement for the cause. Nothing about that was harmful to anyone. Which has been pointed out time and time again. I don’t even know how you managed to twist things like that.
I just love how angry a charity drive is making people on the forums.
Yes Blizzard can donate to DWB on their own. And who knows, maybe they did, maybe they didn’t. But an event like this, asking us to donate is also a marketing strategy for both Blizzard (PR) and for DWB (public awareness.) It’s a way to get more people involved, and more people aware of what DWB does.
But man, GD gets salty over literally everything does. Blizzard could rescue a cat from a burning house and GD would find a way to complain.
In the United States, donating to charitable organizations by a business is a legal tax deduction of up to 10% of taxable income. We’re giving money to them, so they can turn around give it to someone else and claim the tax break. GG taxes.
You keep calling it a crusade for no real justifiable reason because you dislike the things they said on there.
I dislike some of the opinions on there, but you don’t see me calling it a crusade to make the person look bad. And don’t tell me that’s not what you’re implying here. If not, then why say it? You clearly have a problem with what i’ve said here and you’re just labeling as that. I’ve explained and cleared up my position and even apologized for some of the mistakes i’ve done.
On top of socially pressuring them because of the opinions and questions they have. You even claimed one of the people are upset.
You say i’m twisting things and yet you say i’m onto a crusade. There’s a reason why i point out the double standard being employed against people you disagree with.
Okay let me tell you this, like i had to tell Preheat, Tupic and others… If you want to be done with it, don’t announce it to the world, just be done with it.
Or if you are going to announce it to the world, keep that promise. Just pointing that out.
You’re using a comedy show as an example of pressure when we know it’s much more then that.
did you even read the announcement ? Do you understand that $0 is being given to Blizzard for tax breaks and you are donating straight to the charity, do you know why they opened up the pet to everyone even if they did not donate ? because they have no way to track who did and did not donate as it never went through their systems, the tax receipt came right to me and not to Blizzard.
I was going to mention altruism, but I see you posted about it!
But yes, this has always been an ethical debate, since most that volunteer or donate, do it for the satisfaction of themselves.
Although, if Blizz didn’t personally donate to these charities, write offs are off the table, maybe they truly are altruistic.