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The savings from the tax deduction is still less than if they kept all the proceeds. There is likely a $3mil cap on an allowable charity deduction. If people are so worried about making a donation to charity, just go to Make a Wish’s website and donate. You are getting a product in return for your money.
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10/10, it’s great and extremely important to investigate where your money will go and how much of it will actually go to charitable funding when you plan to make a donation anywhere. That said, there are often fiscal limitations for massive corporate donations. Their objective will always be to maximize profits, and attain the most they can for tax breaks (which there are also limits for per year). As many others have said before, Blizzard has come close but has not yet reached the cap for their charitable items.
Not only that, but eventually the charity period does end and players can still purchase it later on - though none of it goes to charity at that point.
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Woah there.
I see you seems to be attemptin’ to appeal to somefolks common sense round here. We don’t take kindly to that round these parts. Pardner. /s
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Have you not noticed the cesspool that is the forums lately? Every second thread is a hate train, with really nothing productive to offer. It’s sad that this once gem has turned to this. I remember when it launched coming here for great debates on spec, lore and things that actually mattered in game. I have started to follow twitter more, there is actual constructive criticism there, unlike here. Finding out that people were using alts to up their likes in the now defunct HK thread made me sick to my stomach. You can’t even use that system as a basis for popular thought anymore since some use 50 alts to add hearts to a post to further their agendas.
I get why so little questions are answered from here. Seeing the hate spewed any time a blue text comes up makes me understand why they no longer add to posts like they did in the past.
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I agree with you here. It is not right and honestly can not understand how anybody can support this wording. I don’t know much about the law and how much they can give to charities without getting in trouble. I understand that they can only deduct a certain amount and have to pay taxes for what is above. And if they take they charity sticker of the pet once the 3 million are earned it is ok. The morally grey area is really if they keep the charity sticker on after they reach their goal.
I think it would have been better if they had said that they sell this pet for this charity until 3 million are reached at which point it will become a pet Blizzard profits from and will have the sticker removed.
My problem really is with the charity sticker which needs to be removed once the goal is reached. Otherwise it is deception of the buyer.
In al lfairness.
Sometimes blizzard -does- do some pretty bone-headed stuff. Like randomly announcing halfway through the expansion they are gonna, for no particular reason, remove the 5 million unique mount skin bronto AH mount.
Conspiracy theories suggest it was to drive gold token buying so people can buy it. but hey, we might never know.
But some of these things people get upset over detract from real issues. 
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Principle of the matter… regardless what the amount is…
you would think is this turbulent time of dishonesty and the mistrust that people have with blizzard as a whole, you would think they would do their best to be “100%” transparent.
but… as usual… they are not.
People just have a hard time with Blizzard being a full-blown capitalistic company. They still see it as a customer friendly company run by people rather than dollars.
What isn’t transparent about this…?
They literally wrote it out word for word again.
If they aren’t transparent enough, they get anger, if they are transparent, they get anger as well. Ridiculous.
It’s not hidden away, it’s not a secret, they put it out, in full view of the buy button. 
You can’t even use the “Well, I misinterpreted it, therefore blizzard is in the wrong.” excuse people did with the e-sports non-troversy
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There may be a limit to the amount that the government will acknowledge for tax deductions. It could be seen, in a legal context, as negligent leadership if they donate past that limit.
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They are being transparent. The only reason we even know about the cap is because they are being transparent. How about you dial back your dishonesty and try again.
How about you molehill mountaineers focus on the actual problems with the game?
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This was a non starter for me, I would never waste 5mil on a portable AH, most didn’t even have it on their radars til Blizzard announced it’s removal. The "oh I might get it in 5 years crowd: has always made me chuckle personally. If it was something I wanted like other gold sinks in the past, I would work my little boomy butt off to get it then, not keep putting it off. They add gold sinks in every expansion.
That is also laughable to me, you see tokens are being bought right now at a high rate because of the expansion announcement alone. Mark my words, those prices will tank within a month of SL’s launch, just like they did in BfA. When people have no other uses for them, they become lower in price when no one is purchasing.
Here’s the smell test. Go to the Blizzard store and tell me if Shadow is still listed as a charity pet.
Literally frothing at the mouth over something we’ve done as a community for multiple years in a row.
Click on the image below (or just, you know, open your eyes since it’s right here), read the text right under the order button, and tell me again how they’re not being transparent:
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To my knowledge, they do not leave it up after the donation goal is reached. It then becomes a regular store item. So far, that has not transpired because the goal amount has not been reached to date in the allotted time-frame of the charity event.
the limit is 10% of their pretax income:
https:// www.taxpolicycenter .org/briefing-book/what-tax-treatment-charitable-contributions
i doubt 3 million would hit the cap:
https:// investor.activision. com/news-releases/news-release-details/activision-blizzard-announces-third-quarter-2019-financial
I still think putting the cap at 3 million is perfectly fine and those that are outraged about it are just upset because its blizz
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The following is pretty much a repeat of what I posted in one of the other “Anti-Dottie” threads…but since this one is still breathing, I think I’ll risk repeating myself to some extent.
Those finding fault with Blizzard’s sale of the Dottie pet(s) seem to fit the current meme label ‘Social Justice Warrior’ (SJW). It’s a title that has become a dirty word; a derisive label placed on those that rail against everything the corporate world does, even if it is something beneficial…‘just because’. That’s a real shame, because the literal definition of the term is a person that takes extra steps beyond what a normal citizen would to assure that common people aren’t stepped on…that the disadvantaged aren’t taken advantage of.
Not anymore, though. Now the ‘SJW’ is seen as a conspiracy theorist, radical socialist and an anti-establishment nut rolled into one; all thanks to the fringe that seek a cause…and of course, attention. It’s a fine line to tread between the two, and it doesn’t help when pointless opposition to a charity fund like this crops up.
And that’s the rub. Nation-wide charities need corporate support to exist. The small amounts donated by individuals are never enough for them to meet the goals they aim for. The three million Blizzard intends to raise is only a fraction of what Make-a-Wish and WE really need. It may seem like a lot, but it’s amazing how much it costs to run an organization of even moderate size. As an example, the small, one-office business I work for employs less than fifty people…yet if our income doesn’t clear well over a million a year, we’ll go out of business. Salaries, utility bills, equipment expenses, taxes, office rent…it’s astonishing what it all costs.
So what if Blizzard makes a profit on top of it all? Two very admirable charities will have received a good portion of what they need to keep operating. That’s a win.
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I recall arguing with one guy who logged into FIVE different alts and liked each of his posts to me. I called him out and asked him if he knew that people can tell you are the same person by looking at your achievements/collections. He never answered me and I haven’t seen him since lol. How insecure with your opinion and dishonest do you have to be to do that? Crazy.
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