The Extra-Life Player Rewards
ealford1985
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trailturtle said:It’s a privilege to say that Perfect World Entertainment is taking part in this year's ExtraLife Gaming Charity Event benefiting the Children's Hospital Network. On October 25th, we’ll be livestreaming Champions Online and other games to help raise money for hospitals to research childhood diseases, pay for children’s medical bills, and purchase equipment.
We’ve set up a donation page here, and we hope you’ll consider helping us support this great cause. I'm going to be streaming Champions from 10am until noon, Pacific time, on 10/25. The total goal (for both 10/25 and 11/1) is $10,000, but I've got a hunch we can beat that.
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On a personal level, Extra Life has a little more meaning to me this year. A very good friend of mine was diagnosed with heart problems that may keep her from having children of her own, and my cousin is about to bring his son home for the first time, born a month early but healthy and happy because of modern medical technology.
Things like that make you start thinking about what kind of world you want to be your legacy, and I’m going to be donating at least $100 to Extra Life. We’re the opening act for the marathon, running from 10am PDT until noon. There’s something poetic about kicking this all off with superheroes, and I hope you’ll join me and the rest of the team in making a better world, one child at a time.
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Superheroes deserve thank-you rewards, so we’re happy to support Extra Life by giving donators some nice perks. If you make a donation to our donation page, make sure to note your @handle and that you want Champions rewards, and we’ll work on getting you the rewards below a few days after the livestream. (Comments like that with your donation are private, only we will see them.)
(Note: You can donate any amount, you aren't restricted to the tiers below.)
We’ve lined up some exclusive rewards for this, like the never-before-seen Defender Grav Bike, plus prints of the Steel Crusade splash art. If you’re a huge fan of costume pieces and vehicles, we’re also making available all of the Timewarp Lockbox top prizes.
Donation tiers:
$50: “Hospital Hero” custom title on the forums.
$100: Above + the Iris Irregular and LordGar and Meatiator action figures. We’ll also make a print of the Steel Crusade splash art, signed by the artist, and ship it to you. (US addresses only, unfortunately.)
$500: Above + all the costume pieces and vehicles from the Timewarp Lockbox.
$1337: Above + the Defender Grav Bike, a brand-new vehicle.
We’ll also do giveaways after the stream for everyone who helped us support Extra Life, in recognition of all the good that we accomplished. Everyone who donated for CO during the stream will be entered in the giveaway. We’ll be giving away three each of the Iris Irregular, LordGar and Meatiator AFs if we hit 50% of our goal, four each if we hit 75%, and five each if we hit 100%. (If you already have one, you can give it to a friend.)
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Defender's Grav Bike:
So this is the original Ad from about a year ago. So where do I start...I won't go into why it's important to donate because I do and did before this was offered but when a business promises rewards, they should deliver. Champions Online has not delivered on their end of the bargain, in fact...they did not even have the prizes available that they were offering.
ealford1985 said:Any updates on player rewards?
This was the first of many requests for an update that I made, the first dated December 2014. If you notice that the POWERS THAT BE never volunteered information to us, it was constantly requested by the players.
Then we got an update that there were some snags...and Trail Turtle gave us an update.
trailturtle said:All the AFs and the Timewarp rewards are in the queue, and the Hospital Hero title is set up. The Meatiator AF hit some setbacks, so until that's ready (January) we're hooking people up with the Iris Irregular and LordGar AFs until then. I'm verifying that everything is good with the print before I start emailing people asking for a US address to ship to.
Thanks everyone for your patience, and helping us do some good in the world. Happy holidays, folks.
Now at this point I will tell you, I donated $100 which would of been the forum title, the three AF's and the signed print. I already had Iris AF and Lord Gar..so honestly I was paying $100 for a silly forum title and Meatiator AF and print. Now let me be honest here...I could care less about Action-Figures and planned to give my Iris & Gar AF away anyways. So at this point I had a forum title...big deal, but I had one. Look at the forums now....they took that away about 6months later. So now I am back to owning 2 out of 3 AF (the two I already owned before the charity.)
ealford1985 said:Update please.
The Meatiator AF?
Iris & Lord Gar AF? If you have these can you donate to someone else?
Signed Print?
Another month...no updates.
Then in another thread I happen to catch Trail Turtle saying this:
trailturtle wrote: »AFs are super easy, yeah.
How is it that in a years time...these "Super Easy" Action-Figured are not done yet? We don't even have the same team either...And is Trail Turtle here too? I doubt it.
And signed print? Is your in house artist even there? Or is some random Dev just going to scribble on them?
I have been a huge supporter of Champions Online and I encourage a Dev to just look at my billing history. However, Extra-Life (which should of been a positive thing) has left a horrible taste in my mouth and I refuse to ever spend another dime to Cryptic again. The powers that be should be ashamed of how poorly they handled this charity.
Please use my experience and NEVER trust Cryptic and NEVER donate through them for Extra-Life.
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The-Grand-Nagus
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If it was not for Champions Online, I would not have donated to Extra-Life, I wanted to support this game. It's no one business why I donated but I will tell you this since it clearly obvious the whole it's charity thing will come into question every time, I donate every month...and it's way more than $100.
It doesn't matter what if the reason was because I "wanted to buy some stuff", Cryptic said..Give us X and we will give you Y. PLAIN and SIMPLE.
1) The motives for charitable giving.
2) Cryptic honoring whatever terms they agreed to.
Regardless of whatever motives someone had when donating to this charity, that does not excuse or invalidate Cryptic from honoring whatever terms they agreed to.
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Yeah, no.
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I love how people can just make up quotes. I said...."NEVER trust Cryptic and NEVER donate through them for Extra-Life."
Nowhere did I say "don't donate" to charity, by all means donate to Extra-Life, just not through Cryptic. I don't even care about the rewards (seeing how I already half of them.) A business should have certain principles and explaining why a company should honor their word shouldn't have to be argued about.
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If the OP would prefer a different title, please let me know.
I disagree. It could be read as I'm saying Extra-Life is a scam but i'm referring the Cryptic's Extra-Life Scam...I guess I could of called it "The Extra-Life False Promise made by PWI"
At least this will warn new players to not use Extra-Life through Cryptic.
I feel absolutely no guilt in saying that if rewards were not offered, I would not have considered donating. On the other hand, I would have never paid $100 for the few items offered if the money wasn't going to a good cause. Does the former make me a bad person undeserving of what was promised? Does the latter balance out my lack of generous spirit?
Regardless of whether I'm selfish scum, a business promised specific rewards including a physical item for a specified payment level and has not fully delivered.
The OP and other participants have every reason to bring attention to the facts of the matter. They apparently made a significant donation to a charity, and have been more patient than most would have been after waiting almost a year for Cryptic/PWE to follow through on their promises. The unnecessary attacks on the OP are probably the most distasteful part of this thread; it really shows how surly and cannibalistic some elements of this community can be.
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Whatever motive(s) involved in his donation is irrelevant. If Cryptic has promised rewards as thanks for the donation then the content of those rewards should be handed out in full. Criticizing someone for not donating purely out of selflessness is just an act of taking up the moral high ground.
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So After 9 months I started to get frustrated and tried to get an answer and made 5 comments...yep, total hijack of forums. Got anything else you care to share Jon?
Your second mistake; coming here to these fine upstanding citizens looking for sympathy and anything other than mockery. You'd have better luck getting Cryptic to pony up.
Sorry, but you'd probably better chalk this one up to an expensive lesson learned unless you enjoy abuse.
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Wanted to give you an update on the Extra Life Rewards. The Meatiator Action Figure should already be granted to the receiving players. We got the posters printed, shipped to the original artist to sign, and recently got them back. We've shipped out the final signed posters to about a half-dozen of the winners and are trying to contact the rest.
Thanks again for participating and we apologize for the long delay. The studio transition caused a lots of hiccups and back-logs, and this was unfortunately one of them.
The Action-Figure has not been sent.
I was contacted prior to this by the communication manager, Alex (?)
He was under the impression they were already sent out. However, I will unfortunately be unable to check my account until the weekend, if all goes as planned.
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Iris Irregular Action-Figure: check
Lord Gar Action-Figure: check
Meatiator Action-Figure: check
Signed print: uncheck PENDING
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The Meatiator AF is pretty awesome looking, he has such MEATS to show you! I think @eiledon took a screenshot. I am bummed I couldn't get a custom one but I am very grateful you guys are living up to your end up the bargain. It really is unfair that the new teams had to fix issues because the old team dropped the ball, but I am very appreciative.
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