Donate Gil to the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund

[Marianka]

I feel for Japan and the ordeal the people overthere are still going through. I would like to donate money, but lets face it, Square Enix is NOT Japan, just a corporation there. If you gave them your money they would prolly keep ff14 alive for another year

[Krystal]

I feel for Japan and the ordeal the people overthere are still going through. I would like to donate money, but lets face it, Square Enix is NOT Japan, just a corporation there. If you gave them your money they would prolly keep ff14 alive for another year

as cruel as that sounds............you're probably right...-_-;

[Ilax]

I feel for Japan and the ordeal the people overthere are still going through. I would like to donate money, but lets face it, Square Enix is NOT Japan, just a corporation there. If you gave them your money they would prolly keep ff14 alive for another year

That horrible to think SE would do such of shame activity again they own country... Pay 14 with a disaster, when i say many of you guy need a break off the game i am serious...

[slakyak]

Thanks SE for not charging for April. Think mine is going back in to the disaster relief fund though! Looking at some of the sickening/enraging posts going on in some of the topics elsewhere (rollback anyone??) not everyone would agree with SE putting the money in to a fund.

eBay auctions are a nice idea, not sure about SE becoming gillsellers though!! Maybe selling haircuts for characters or something could work. I don't like it that someone with a spare $30 could buy a weapon that someone slaved over no matter where the money goes. But I'm all for furniture, costumes, hair or race changes.... Maybe even random tat that SE have kicking around the office?

[Starcade]

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.

Starting my way through the posts on our first day of vacation:

It would be RMT, but it would be legal because it's Square-Enix doing it. It's like the pets and the like which Blizzard sell in WoW. There's a term for that, though, for the life of me, I forget what it was.

Easy way to deal with the scammers: Any donations made in or "near" game (on the POL part for XI, probably somewhere near the login stuff for XIV) are done only to official outlets. Gil donations, if such a matter were tried, would be to moogles within either game only.

[slakyak]

You got me thinking now! How about $5 or your local equivalent for a /jobemote style animation where a halo appears above your head for a couple seconds??

[Vanar]

Customers of participating wireless carriers can text REDCROSS to 9-0-9-9-9 to make a $10 donation to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Donations will appear on customers’ monthly bills or be debited from a prepaid account balance. Message and data rates may apply. Depending on the carrier, individuals can donate two or three times per month.

SE shutdown the servers, and cut our service fees for April, in support. Lets use this simple method to show our support for japan, as well as show SE how we support their decisions.

[Zarchery]

Gil isn't real. Why not donate MONEY?

[Meyi]

Gil is a virtual item and does not affect reality in any such way.

However, I think it'd be great if they opened up a way for us to donate money. Real life money.

[Burmecia]

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?

It's a little naive to expect a lot of people to do this. Creating a virtual in-game item that could be buyable on the POL website creates an incentive for people to donate money. Perhaps you are right that people need to be doing this on their own, but you really can't expect that from everyone. Sometimes an incentive needs to be created to have better results.

Not only that but if SE followed through with this, it would give a ton of a positive feedback for them in the media. So in the end, it's beneficial to both the company and the people they(we) help. ^_^ So it's not impractical at all.