Mythic makes a small gesture

[angry.bob]

Yeah, *finger* to Blizzard. It would take them all of an afternoon to add a special donator-only pet to the game that you get for donating $20. Like a "Hurricane Naga" or something. A Murlock would be better, but that's already being used for Blizzcon. Even if only 10% of their players donated, that's still what, like $8,000,000? Even if only a small percentage of their players gave, it would still add up to a huge ammount by anyone's standards. Make it a semi-useful blue trinket for $50 and they could probably collect enough to rebuild New Orleans.

For those of you who play Warmachine, Iron Kingdoms, or just like the miniatures, Privateer Press is offering a special edition resculpted miniature of Vladimir Tzepesci for a $10 dollar donation. For those of you who use Vlad at all, it's an even greater deal because his original miniature blew goats. Privateer is donating 100% of the sales for the miniature and eating all production costs on the miniature, so every penny of the $10 goes to the Red Cross. Reaper is doing something similar but hasn't given many details yet.

[Roac]

Given the amount of monetary loss that the victims have suffered, I think that not getting a $15 bill actually DOES matter.

When did anyone say that a $15 bill DOESN'T matter?

Roac did, more or less.  At least, his post caused Raph's response.

FYI, saying that losing all your ingame stuff hurts more than a $15 monthly isn't to say that the bill doens't matter - it's just perspective.  If a $15 bill were too much for you, waiving the fee for one month isn't going to help a lot.  You won't be paying the next month, or the next, or the one after that either.  If $15 means that much, you will just cancel and be done with it.  For anyone who does intend to stay a customer (which freebies like this are geared toward), getting $15 isn't a big deal because they've already committed themselves to it - its losing dozens or hundreds of hours of work, which is by far worth more than $15.

Or to put it another way, just because I say A < B does not mean A = 0.