Post by Steve Farrelly @ 09:52am 26/03/12 | 10 Comments
Unfortunately, not all of the Internet understood exactly how this worked. Penny-Arcade's Jerry Holkin who is one of Child's Play's co-founders, has said that the charity is no longer taking donations based partly on the idea it might have actually worked, but more that as a charity, they're not convinced it was necessarily the right way to go about it.
"Apparently some of the people giving to the cause seemed to think that they were paying for a new ending to Mass Effect [3]," Holkin wrote on Penny-Arcade. "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."
He goes on to explain that they have a number of policies in place to stop any entity using Child's Play to "sell more stuff", but that obviously the Retake Mass Effect initiative didn't come anywhere near that sort of thing, but the confusion that came with it certainly created a problem for the charity.
"This is a passionate community that formed around one thing, and some of that passion was expressed in charitable giving," Holkin added. "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 bullshit.
"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," he concluded. "So it kind of threw me for a loop."
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Posted 10:18am 26/3/12
Posted 11:05am 26/3/12
Asking for your money back, after donating to a charity, on the presumption that you were somehow paying a game company to make a new ending for a game? My god people astound me with their incredible stupidity more everyday.
Posted 10:54am 26/3/12
Posted 11:17am 26/3/12
Probably not, the ending isn't great, but its only the last 10 minutes or so and the rest is 30 hours of awesomeness. All up still one of the best games I've played in recent years. People on the internet just love to complain and rage and over-exaggerate and this is the current popular cause.
Posted 11:22am 26/3/12
less controller throwing and more "that's lame and doesn't make sense."
Posted 11:53am 26/3/12
You'll probably love the game right up until the last 5-10 minutes. I found the ending to be pretty disappointing, and that's factoring in that I already knew about the rage surrounding it before I'd even bought the game. The fact that the rest of the game was so good up to that point was what really threw me. Keep at it, as Khel said, it's still one of the best games in a while (with the exception of the ending).
Posted 12:40pm 26/3/12
For "Retake Mass Effect" organisers to latch on to the charity like that for their own purposes without even asking them is not cool.
Posted 04:16pm 26/3/12
While i was disappointed in the ending of ME3 myself, i just can't understand the action people have taken for their 'cause'.
Posted 09:50pm 26/3/12
Posted 10:01pm 26/3/12
"I hate this ending so much I'm going to go and help sick children and donate money to charity"
Better watch out Bioware, if you piss the fans off any furthur they might go help starving children in third world countries.