I think people just don’t like seeing corporate greed disguised behind something like a charity.
I regret to say, whenever money is involved in anything I become cautious and keep an open mind, in my experience all these ‘charities’ that exist often spend so much on administration fees and other things. Even the churches where I live are tax exempt because they are considered ‘charity’ but in reality Catholic church makes billions of dollars, tax free…it is a slight concern.
It doesnt matter if they care about charity or not. Its the hypocrisy of blizzard and their obvious attempts to profit from people who are charitable.
TIL giving $3 million to charity is an act of greed.
The irony here could steam press wrinkles out of congress.
Here, let me help with a visual aid:
People who are charitable donate to charities without needing to get a pet in return. Being charitable means you don’t expect a reward.
Your ignorance is astounding. People can buy a product with the intention of being charitable at the same time
No, they can buy a product and justify it by saying it’s charitable, but if they intended to be charitable, they would just donate to charity.
One thing I noticed, in the Blizzcon 2019 Opening Ceremony the Charity Pet is revealed, and Ion Hazzikostas says “Two charities that both work on behalf of children around the world…”
When he said that I remember thinking, “wow, how wonderful!”
Yet when we buy the Pet, it clearly states that the money will benefit children in the US. (Which makes sense!)
I am happy to help children anywhere, yet felt this should have been made clear from the beginning.
Of course I will be buying the pet. Children are the world’s universal investment for the future! Just raise them well. 
Someone’s been on the twitterinas too hard.
Go back to your talkie whiteboard boy so he can give you your next opinion.
Yeah, but it makes them feel better about themselves if they can find something to “validate” their outrage with and make it look less like someone just complaining and more like someone trying to “stick it to the man”
The dollars spent for a pet result in dollars for the charity.
I am not all that interested in the pet, but, because it is for a worthy charity, I may well buy it.
If I choose not to buy it, that means less dollars to the charity.
What about the basic simplicity in this do some of you not get?
So, now you are saying that unless the money is given, with nothing in return, the money is “tainted” by our lack of “pure motive”. I guess that even includes that ribbon that you get when you donate to some vet organizations, or that candy that they give you when you drop money in the bucket around the holidays.
Fancy the self-serving elitist mindset at work here.
This is such petty excuse to cover the reality that none of these people, would probably inspect anyone else, like the do Blizzard, with their purity of requirements for charitable giving.
I took the time to look up various definitions of charitable giving. They all talk about the giving part, but not one pointed out the need for the giving to be “pure” and without even a hint of something in return.
For the cost of the pet, we receive some pretty pixels. If we ever leave the game, they do not go with us. We get to look at them while we maintain a sub to WoW. In return, the charity gets $10 for each set of pretty pixels, which actually do real life good for people.
How anyone can continue to whine about the vehicle, which Blizzard has made available for people to get pretty pixels while people in need can get real world help, is more than mystifying, it causes me to question THEIR “purity” of motive.
When arguing, just for the sake of arguing, over what Blizzard’s “motives” are, for making money available to people who really need the help, reaches down this low it is impossible not to wonder why.
It just starts to look more and more like the “hate train” that they got on left the station and they just don’t know how to get off.
Just tons of sadness.
JMO
It’s hilarious how you wrote this out when I’m actually on your side.
The hate train on Blizzard has gotten out of control.
But you blow up your own case with this.
If you’re not interested in the pet, then you don’t have a reason to buy it do you? But you claim it’s for charity so you’ll buy the pet.
Why don’t you just donate the ten bucks to charity? Because you don’t get something in return.
That’s not charitable donation. That’s buying a product and the proceeds go to charity because Blizzard donate the income. You didn’t donate anything.
I don’t care if you buy the pet or not, I don’t even really care what intentions you buy it with.
I was simply telling the person I responded to that Blizzard isn’t “taking advantage of charitable people” because “charitable people” don’t need to buy a product to give to charity.
Well said!
I hope they raise ten million from you guys stirring up this “outrage” and Blizz gets to pocket seven million.
I’ll laugh for weeks.
Yeah no one is crying that blizzard is donating money or saying donating to charities is a bad thing and the complaints are precisely because people read the conditions not the other way around.
Your whole statement takes what people say out of context so congrats I guess for talking to yourself and anyone else who enjoys whining about whining.
I read and agreed with most of the posts you made, but this particular imposition of a standard for charity I do not. I, also, agree that people do not have to buy the pet in order to make a charitable donation.
So, I buy the pet and the charity gets more money because I did, but it is not a charitable donation.
The same ten dollars goes to the charity, whether I spend it through Blizzard, or donate it directly, but one is "ok " and charitable and the other is not.
No, I simply do not buy into this logic. Many people will buy the pet because Blizzard has brought it to their attention and made it simple and easy to do. These same people will likely not take the time to search for another venue for making a donation. Their money does the same amount of good as a direct donation.
You are tying up the idea that a person’s motives must be pure, to your own satisfaction, in order to be “legit” charity. This is an arbitrary standard and totally pointless. I don’t care who gets the credit for the donation. My name does not have to be on the money in order for the charity to benefit from my decision to remove $10 from my bank account, and direct to to a source that will ultimately turn it over to the charity in question.
The argument has morphed from Blizzard’s intentions for making the pet available to the motives of players who buy the pet.
$10 and a pet spends, for the charity, just like a $10 direct donation. It just really is a wonderful thing when you can pool your donation with others and give a needy cause a really nice big check.
But, I guess my logic there would be considered uncharitable in your view of what is acceptable charity as well.
Sadly, in the end, the arguments are pointless and when I buy the pet, it will be a charitable donation because I decide it is, not because I do not meet someone else’s arbitrary standard of what a charitable donation is.
No personal offence intended, but you and I have a very different view on this subject and it does not appear likely that agreement is going to be reached here.
My hope is that lots of money gets raised for the charities and that they are able to do a lot of really great things for the people who they serve in spite of the crazy things that have been said on this forum.
My best to you in spite of our differences.
There would still be people whining about the charity pet, with or without a cap. Some people just want to throw a fit whenever Blizzard does anything.
Lmao, I used to buy stuff from Blizzard for Charity sales
Luckily their profiting from donations showed up in esports event
Now I just give it directly to charity instead or ppl who actually give 100% to charity rather than '100% upto ’ 
If you have remember 1 thing.
Those people who complain about this never ever will contribute what Blizzard has to charities even if they lived 10,000 years.
It’s the world we live in, the person who contributes nothing gets mad at the person who contributes more, for not doing enough.
Or make up some tinfoil hat conspiracy theory