Ridiculous maths have made me conclude that devs make $5500 a day each off ingame purchases. That's $22000 (4 admins,KaW, KaW-admin,KaW-creative and KaW-community) in total. so this event will INSPIRE people to buy MORE and that's 50% to breast cancer products, Calculations say that's $546000 in a 31 days, $510000 in 28 days and $524000 in 30 days. Too lazy to include pennies and cents,and all units are in US dollars. I may be off by a lot,devs can bother to correct me please?
Eh,it said DEVS. Meaning actual people working on the game, they are paid by the devs I don't know how much so that's the part I cant calculate. I'll say it's decreased by $7600 if I factor in payment which may also be off.
Yes... But it's not just those 4... Support staff Admin staff Actual code workers (you don't think there's actually only kaw_creative right?)
This event goes to all with breast cancer and seen alot of post about why only this cancer? Mostly we tackle cancer from top to bottom which makes devs more money each Cancer event they support
That's not true. Say during the cancer event the amount of revenue coming in from purchases during the event is double the usual, but they are only getting 50%. They are making the same as they always do.
Why breast cancer and not colon cancer? Why cancer and not AIDS? Why AIDS and not ebola? Why ebola and not any other disease out there? ATA is not a charity organisation. If you want to actually donate something you can find plenty of charity organisations where you will find people happy to take your money. But I get it. You are a cheap ass who wants discounts and pretending how much he care about world problems.
agreed ...If you're really looking to do some good donate anonymously, or better yet go out and do some volunteer work. If you live in a big enough city look under the Meetups website. There's plenty of good you can do for many different groups. I don't donate, but I do volunteer on a weekly basis (10-15 hrs monthly) and I don't expect ANYTHING in return. When I'm KAWing it's an escape from RL for me. I and I'm sure the Devs don't need to hear from you about what we should and shouldn't do with our money.
The devs in all their "greed" have done several of these events already. Op, I find it amusing that you suggest an event that donates money AND cuts the cost of seals and horns. How about this. Instead of putting ALL of the wait on the devs to donate, maybe players should help. Instead of seals and horns at 25%, maybe the devs should DOUBLE the cost and donate half. How does that sound?
Damascus if they didnt get a tax write off for that I would support that. Just go donate to a good cause everyone. Pick a real one that helps something with meaning to you. Make sure it's registered and the funds go where they claim to. And make a decent change to the world maybe. Or at least make yourself smile knowing you are helping others. Maybe even yourself one day.
How about instead of raising money for breast cancer, why not something for starving, dying African kids? No need for xstals or seals or rare equipment because that takes away the aspect of donating or fund raising. I think it'd be a big thumbs up on the ata aspect and it'd show that they are human still, not just money hoarders aha
Or do like me and donate to save panda bears. Humans can help themselves. Those cute creatures can't.
While that is noble, Chaos, I don't begrudge an organization its tax break. I imagine a cancer patient that is the benefit of it doesn't either. If we are being idealistic and looking for those who will donate without reward then we can continue in being idealistic and consider the possibility that the devs would donate without a tax break.
Directly helping a human or animal is worthy. Donating or being solicited for funds guarantees less than the full amount goes to the intended use. The starving n less fortunate r top priority. Cancer research n other diseases etc r good things but tbh its for the affluent n not the poor. Ppl who struggle to live on a day to day basis care not if they even know about cancer. Summary: cart is too far in front of the horse while many ppl r forgotten. Lets start with everyone on the planet has clean drinking water the top need to live. As for cancer how about removing all known carcinogens sold. Btw i smoke n would have to live with the obvious that smoking is stupid n is taken away from me. Thats real govt.
No support at all. Breast cancer has a very low death rate. Support a cause that needs support. Support heart health. The more you know
Optimal is right about making sure the organization your giving to is legit, also any org. you plan on donating to has to disclose how much of the money they collect is for administration and other crap and how much actually goes to the cause that they're collecting for ...you'ld be shocked to find how much a non profit is actually allowed to keep.