Petition To Have S/E Add a Donation "Add-On" to PoL

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Originally Posted by Randwolf

As many players are very appreciative of S/E's suspension of billing, most would not mind paying their monthly bill to assist S/E, since operating costs do not disappear during a crisis.

For that reason, we are requesting that S/E place on the services purchasing screen the option to pay our April bill.

We are also requesting that there be an "Add-On" to purchase titled "Donation to the Japanese Relief Fund" (or another appropriate name). The monies collected by this "Add-On" could be used entirely at the discretion of S/E to help their 'distressed' employees or Japan, as a whole.

Signed,

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I agree.... Naturebeckles - Sylph

Detoxy-Titan

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Originally Posted by Ziyyigo-Tipyigo

No.

First off, you're losing sight of the fact that Square-Enix is a for-profit company, not a charity. On top of that, they are an entertainment company, about as far as producing an essential as you can get. Your money would be better spent directly on an actual charitable organization.

Second, the servers are down because their employees and their communities have more pressing needs than this. And you want them to take the time to do the research on reputable charitable organizations (and the legal research for navigating the liabilities and obligations for making such a link), all because you're too lazy to go out and do it yourself?

You all could have made donations to the ICRC or the Salvation Army or so forth in the time it took you to browse and post on this forum.

Call me cold-hearted, but I'm disgusted by this. If you actually cared, you'd do it yourself.

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Seriously? We all just want to help out in anyway possible. I would much prefer to donate through SE just for the fact that JP players will know that NA,EU,UK Players do care about them and are helping in any way possible. I agree that there are other ways to donate BUT the point is we are all a FFXI Family, & we should show our support as a Family. Grow up & get out of the bubble you live in. Whether you donate through Red Cross or SE the point is that you donated & showed your support for Japan in their time of need.

NightDagger - Lakshmi Server

Fully Support this & will gladly donate!!!

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Originally Posted by Ziyyigo-Tipyigo

To be brief, what if the “charity” that Square-Enix links to is a scam?

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Large companies are usually pretty good at avoiding charities that are scams.

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Originally Posted by Ziyyigo-Tipyigo

And if you want to help Square-Enix directly, you need do nothing more than buy their stuff. It could be argued that buying Final Fantasy XIV was already an act of charity.

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That made me laugh out loud.

leyla - Asura

Jerik - Unicorn soon to be Fenrir

Alustriel - Alexander

Kailea - Phoenix

I support this 100%

Have you people realized a Donation button inside POL won't do anything because we can't even log on? Think things through, people. Just GOOGLE Japan + Tsunami + relief + effort and make your donation through a charity.