Admiral H. Cain wrote...
Our_Last_Scene wrote...
alx119 wrote...
And focusing their angriness in doing something good for the children. I don't see the people who "loved" the endings focusing their happiness towards a better goal.
Many accept the fact that there's a few who liked the endings, they just question the reasons.
And then the charity had to change it's rules due in part to a high number of people demanding their money back when they realised the money was going to sick kids and not into changing the ending.
That's a blatant lie.
From
http://www.escapistm...-Donation-Drive
"The decision [to stop the donations] was made at the request of Child's Play, not because the charity was unhappy with the drive but because of mistaken assumptions of a connection between it and RetakeMass Effect[/i], and the potential slippery slope the donation drive creates."[Child's Play] pointed out that several sources are incorrectly assuming a link between the charity and the petition, or outright support of the petition by the charity. This has been the source of some difficulty for them, and it has been requested that we wind this effort down," the founder, going by the name Robb, wrote. "Again, I want to stress that the charity is not unhappy with our work, they are exceptionally pleased with what we have accomplished."
From the co-founder:
As the main point of contact for Child’s Play, Jamie has been buried
under mail about this situation. Apparently some of the people giving
to the cause seemed to think that they were paying for a new ending to
Mass Effect. She’s been asked what the goal is, and how much they need
to raise in order to get the ending produced.
We’ve also been contacted
by PayPal due to a high number of people asking for their donations
back. This is in addition to readers who simply couldn’t understand how
this was connected to Child’s Play’s mission. We were dealing with a
lot of very confused people, more every day, and that told us we had a
problem.
We have policies in place to deal with direct abuse: we don’t allow
companies to use Child’s Play in order to sell more stuff. To that end
we do not allow deals like “1 cent of every dollar goes to Child’s
Play!” or whatever. But this isn’t anywhere on that continuum! This is
a passionate community that formed around one thing, and some of that
passion was expressed in charitable giving. I actually support this
cause, but I am a pessimist, and I’m thinking about the next time
something like this happens - when someone attaches Child’s Play to
something we can’t get behind, or leverages your history of generosity
and fellow feeling for their own weird bull****. So, we need to have
something like a policy on this. This is the best way I can think to
say it:
Child’s Play cannot be a tool to draw attention to a cause. Child’s Play must be the Cause. Nothing like this has ever happened in the almost ten years the charity
has been running, so it kind of threw me for a loop. Thanks for
listening.
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