New Server Drive - donation and prize thread (Final total: $13,310!)

[Mouseferatu]

I'm one of the people holding onto prizes and still waiting to hear who I'm supposed to send them to. I would have liked to take care of this before moving cross-country....

I'm in the same boat as Sean. Well, not the moving part, but inasmuch as I still haven't been contacted regarding the prize I offered.

 

[jgbrowning]

Not to be too cynical, but I think I'm just saying what a lot of people are thinking: One has to wonder what the response will be like the next time there is a new server drive. Will the overwhelming support still be there? Will the good feelings overcome the sense of collective disappointment at the way prize distribution has been ignored?

yes

joe b.

 

[reveal]

Not to be too cynical, but I think I'm just saying what a lot of people are thinking: One has to wonder what the response will be like the next time there is a new server drive. Will the overwhelming support still be there? Will the good feelings overcome the sense of collective disappointment at the way prize distribution has been ignored?

I would hope that people donated because they wanted the site to stay up and be successful, not because they wanted prizes. If someone doesn't donate next time because of the way the prizes have been handled, then that's just sad. They obviously wanted a prize more than they wanted the site to succeed.

 

[Alzrius]

The love for EN World will still be there next time. I was tripping over my own feet to send off a check for the last donation even before I knew about prizes, and I will be again next time, even if they announce right off the bat there won't be any prizes. I love this place. I spend more time here than at any other internet site, and I want to do what I can to help it out.

 

[kenobi65]

I was tripping over my own feet to send off a check for the last donation even before I knew about prizes, and I will be again next time, even if they announce right off the bat there won't be any prizes. I love this place. I spend more time here than at any other internet site, and I want to do what I can to help it out.

I concur entirely. I donated because:
(a) I use the site enough that the promise of improved response time was worth the donation, to me.
(b) My job affords me enough disposable income that I can make such a donation for the "greater good" of the community. (So I'm Lawful Good, I guess. )
(c) The prizes were just the "Lucky Strike Extra"; I would have donated without 'em.

 

[BSF]

Not to be too cynical, but I think I'm just saying what a lot of people are thinking: One has to wonder what the response will be like the next time there is a new server drive. Will the overwhelming support still be there? Will the good feelings overcome the sense of collective disappointment at the way prize distribution has been ignored?

I donate to the site because I enjoy it. Sure prizes are nioe, but they are hardly necessary.

 

[Jupp]

I donated before the big prize wave came. I cannot speak for others but I really didnt care for the prizes; they are a nice goody and with the free stuff that everyone got with those eeeexcellent pdf's from Mark, Behemoth&Co I already got more than my fair share of free goodies (not that I 'd say no to even more goodies ). But the main thing is that we got these brand-spakin' new servers. The time I save now when browsing the forums is worth every single penny I've donated. I got to see what it is like to feel the ENexperience (tm)

 

[seankreynolds]

Where you moving to, Sean?

I'm now a Jersey Devil.

 

[Justin D. Jacobson]

I'm in the same boat as Sean. Well, not the moving part, but inasmuch as I still haven't been contacted regarding the prize I offered.

Ditto.

If anyone who donated more than $50 wants to contact me directly at justin[at]bluedevilgames[dot]com, I'll work something out with them as a show of good faith.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I want Denizens of Avadnu...no, Betrayal at Shadewood Keep, I want Next Age Heroes...
"You'll get nothing and like it!"

I donated to help EN World, not to get free stuff.

But at the same time, many people generously donated prizes to this effort and I am sure they are wondering when they are going to get the information about distributing them. I don't think we are asking too much in asking for an update on the effort.