Charity Promo: Pick 3+ Games. Donate $5 or more. 100% Goes to Charity! on GOG
http://www.gog.com/news/charity_promo_pick_3_games_donate_5_or_more_100_goes_to_charity
Once again we can see that GOG is awesome.
Once again we can see that GOG is awesome.
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Really I pretty much feel the same way about all charity If you want to teach a kid to read, feed the poor, or provide relief to victims of a disaster do it. These large organized charity are little more than self sustaining institutions (like the US legal system) that provide good feelings for 20 dollars a month.
It is the thought that counts though so gg GoG
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Yup, you can explain yourself, every way you like. If you don't like WWF, there are two more charity institutions: Worldbuilders and Gaming for Good (you can choose one from those 3 institutions).
I think about it that way: since you can buy those games in any way you can, so why not to give price of games to those institutions even if there will be just a little part of your cash given to people in need, that part counts. In this case whole cash goes to charity and in return you get games, everybody is happy, I can't imagine what you see wrong in that.
The WWF uses 73% of donation income on the actual programs. That's in fact reasonably good given their gargantuan size and international activities (both of which increase administrative and overhead costs). There are better; there are also a lot worse. It certainly provides more than "good feelings".
@Ayiekie
Or hey, you can believe that nobody can know anything about how charities spend their money, but you mysteriously somehow do know that they don't spend it on their charitable works, because they're evil or something. That makes a lot of sense!
Put your money wherever you want, but don't kid yourself that you give money to people who make video games and not to charities because charities aren't "innocent" enough. Whatever flaws Oxfam may have (it has a fair number, I would agree), Oxfam has saved the lives of more human beings than every game developer in history put together. If you rate a nice video game over a human life... well, I hardly have to follow up that thought, right?
And Oxfam is hardly the only charity that exists; if you're that concerned, donate to CARE International, who are very well-run and put just over 90% of each dollar donated into their campaigns, which primarily focus on emergency relief and economic development (particularly focused on women and children).