Donate Gil to the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund

[Madscientist]

I think the staff of SE has made a difficult and heavely thought decision, with 3 nuclear reactors facing possible meltdown and or radiation leackage its a wise decision. Mayby in the future they will have a backup server, but now they should only concentrate to help those who lost their loved ones in this sad sad time. My condolences to all in SE that lost their loved ones or friends. I feel with you all. But I liked the idea of a relief found its a good idea. They can have also an option during the mounthly payment where we can donate. But I think the japanese people are proud people and they want to try to solve their problems internaly. They are well known as the most well prepared in the world regarding Aid. They are allways the first contry to reach to the desaster areas.

[Lollerblades]

You think about how many people play world wide~ If we all donated our April billing the relief fund what get a hell-o-lot of monies to help

[Kabel]

I would gladly still pay my 12.95 monthly subscription fee.

[Imakun]

Even if SE itself doesn't do it, we can help with donations in many many ways already. Just send your April's 12$ through one of those, at least that's what I'll do.
I don't think it matters who takes the initiative, what's important is to help our fellow adventurers, their families and everybody else.

[Runespider]

I think it would possibly be a good idea for Square to maybe at least suggest a good charity organisation that would actively be helping with this right now. I'm not sure I really trust the red cross as an organisation anymore or whether they wouldbe the best place to actually send money.

[Rubeus]

Legally, money donated in the U.S. only has to funnel "whatever money is left over" to the actual donation; the rest can all go towards "cost of maintaining the relief center, salaries of the executives, etc."

I would like SE to give us a Japanese charity that will take USD and Euros. we the players, on the whole, are worried and feel a deep sadness and many of us want to help in more ways than we legitimately can given many of our demographic locations. Even if SE just set up a donation paypal for the Japanese people, or guided us to a Japanese-run organization, I believe many of us would like to use that. (partial repost from the large earthquake thread ^^)

sidenote: posted @ffxi_en on twitter to have them read these 2 threads (with links). my suggestion would be for more people to do that too so the actual dev team DOES know we care and want to do something to help. they're more likely to get the hint faster with a bunch of us going HEY WE WANZ HALP YOU

just a thought~

[Emerican]

When I think about it, something as simple as this might be a better solution. I was discussing this with my fiancee, and we were thinking of the good and bad that could come out of a gil fund-raiser such as the OP suggested. I really like the idea of everyone being able to contribute, and money not being an issue for those like me who are barely getting by in the current economy... However, the bad things I could see happening from this are RMT phishing scams (RMT's claiming to be SE's official donation account or something of the like), and people just not donating to this due to the fact that this could technically be RMT activity even though it would be sanctioned by SE.

But in reply to your suggestion, it's a really simple and straight forward way that would probably be more effective. I could see a lot more money being raised this way in all honesty (and if the donation "items" were cheap enough maybe even I could contribute).

But either way, I really like the idea of raising money for the people of Japan who have been struck by this disaster. I'd be happy to see anything created by SE to help with the cause.

Yeah the idea would be to make a set of several cheap MH or gear pieces. Making it to were if you wanna donate more you could buy the whole set or for people who cannot afford the set, could just buy one piece and donate as well.

[Rubeus]

honestly even if they just re-sold tidal talismans as well as did buyable MH furniture and maybe just another mog bonanza with the gil going towards disaster relief (like a gil>yen conversion ratio, in the millions) i bet you people would do all 3.

[lowkey]

Why do you need an incentive to donate? Can't you just donate even if they don't give you a bajillion gil, or give your moogle a cowboy outfit? It's called charity, because you do it out of the kindness of your heart, because it's the moral thing to do, not because it's the only way for you to obtain some lame virtual trinket. Is worthless crap the price of acting decent these days, or something?

[Rubeus]

Why do you need an incentive to donate? Can't you just donate even if they don't give you a bajillion gil, or give your moogle a cowboy outfit? It's called charity, because you do it out of the kindness of your heart, because it's the moral thing to do, not because it's the only way for you to obtain some lame virtual trinket. Is worthless crap the price of acting decent these days, or something?

not for you, not for me, not for many of us on the forums, but for someone else? maybe, yeah. it takes all kinds, and if you can get more help to people who need it, i dont see why you shouldn't take any avenue available to you.

besides, many donation places only accept nothing smaller than like, 1000 dollars. >_> this would be a great idea for players to show we care without re-mortgaging our houses to do it.