Wait those are a THING? Oh no. That is amazing and also bad. I have a friend who would love those as gifts and I will have to look those up. Avid birder and wildlife photographer. Won a state wide contest for DNR with a fox photo one year.
They should license a lot more than just WoW. I had a survey from Blizz recently that eventually went into marketing, after the game stuff. Asking about brands I like. Mostly I am like “meh nothing”. Except Lego. I did tell them that would be amazing as a collab.
I bought the Reven pack because the video hit me right in the feels. I normally donate to charities that provide care and food for animals, but this one hit so different.
Somewhere, someone just gifted $50,000 anonymously to Make-A-Wish, and got nothing in return but a good feeling and the satisfaction of helping someone. I support the pets when Blizz introduces them. But for every other charity in the world, whichever I choose to support, I’m not looking for recognition or an incentive. The incentive is being a decent human and helping others. A lost art in the modern world.
You created this thread to laud your self-righteousness over others - which means your motivations are impure. Congratulations, you’ve played yourself.
I’d also argue that self-righteousness is a worse motivation than receiving some pixels in a game.
“I don’t donate to charity because I get any kind of recognition! DO YOU HEAR ME, EVERYONE? Recognize my selflessness! I am the most decent and you’re not!”
Here you go, man. This is what you were looking for:
There are many people who donate without receiving anything in return whether it is time or money. Obviously if you put out a reward or gift, people are more likely to donate and some people/companies will offer things in order to encourage people to donate and support.
But again, many people donate regardless. I haven’t seen people actually state that they would never donate unless they get something in return, but there may be people out there who feel that way. There are so many charities out there that we can’t donate to all of them, so some people may prioritize ones that give something in return.
But you also made a point of talking about your own charitable donations, and how good of a person you were for not needing recognition for it.
Thereby fishing for recognition.
Just because no one gave you a pet in the game for this thread doesn’t mean that it’s not fueling your reward centers to tell people how good of a person you are compared to those other people.
Fun thing about this… it doesn’t even exist in philosophy classrooms, because of the issue surrounding Karma:
If an act of goodwill for the sake of being good means that you “earn” good karma for it, then that means that earning that karma is synoymous with with an act of perceived goodwill, since the act is in fact done to increase your karma. This means that an act of good, is only good, if you get nothing back from it - including things outside of your own control, which in turn can turn any positive act of giving into an act that earned you something.
Good hearted people exist, but they do it because they feel good to do it. Nothing else. And for that, some people have ulterior motives and such motives that people can agree with. Not all ulterior motives are bad, and not all good acts are done to be good. But a good act done to be good for the sake of it feeling or being good, is a good act.
In the case of Blizzard, people like pets and there’s multiple pets available on the store. But someone who wants to buy a pet may wait for the charity one so they can get a pet and have that money be sent somewhere that they think is worth it. Does that make a person good? Not necessarily. But it means that the act itself is doing something good and that’s realistically the only thing that matters.
Intentions only get so far when results are what determines whether an act was actually helpful or not. Which means that all charitable people are really just selfish people whose selfishness is expressed by actions that do good and make them feel good. Which, ultimately, makes them a good person doing good thing for a good cause.
This here for an example, is a demonstration of someone who (if we take it at face value to be honest) has good intentions… but monstrous implications. Since this is you shaming people for doing good things for no other reason than to make yourself feel better about encouraging people to NOT do good things.
A wonderful demonstration of someone who does the exact opposite of caring for other people, and is just doing good things as a form of virtue signaling.
Yeah, you really are judging though. Mostly you made the thread to get replies and lightly troll, I think. My opinion on it anyway. It does get engagement, but not really constructive engagement when it appears to be done to judge and trash others, while lauding yourself.
If someone who normally wouldn’t buy something like a pet or mount saw that it’s for a good cause, then they problably will increase the chance of buying it to help out. I don’t think it’s any bigger than that
I couldn’t agree more. It’s easy to question people’s motives and motivations but it’s not that relevant. If the result supports someone in need it achieved its intention. And that’s great.
Besides that, I think especially with things like the WoW pets for charities, someone had a wonderful time making it happen. The pets are often very unique, detailed, obviously a lot of love went into them. To me that is beautiful, it is amazing when others can share in it like that.
More innocent joy in the world can’t be a bad thing
Have a great day 
