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The sale is still running and will continue through April 6, but today the company updated its TF2 blog to reveal that a total of $300,000 has been raised so far: "Take a BOW, TF2 community -- because that is an incredible, frankly astounding, amount of money from a dedicated number of gamers, to one heck of a lot of people in some real need right now. Anytime someone gives you guff about something negative in gaming, you go ahead and point them to this post, because here's some late-breaking damn news: they are wrong and gamers are generous and awesome."
All proceeds (net of applicable taxes) will go directly towards the Japanese disaster relief fund that the American Red Cross has set up. It’s not quite as much as the 3+ million collected by Zynga through the sale of virtual Farmville items, but for a much smaller community behind a game that was released back in 2007, it’s definitely noteworthy. It also shows how popular the in-game store has become for Team Fortress 2 since Valve launched it last September.
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cyrusjumpjet said:
Very cool.
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Fantastic
Its great when you get a story like this through the plethora of "******* 1" sues "******* 2" stories that seem to be all too common our days.
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I guess the 300k is relatively more from a smaller TF2 community than the 3+ million by zynga.
Both nice effort tho.
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Darkshadoe said:
Very nice!!
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Very cool ideas. Giving people virtual items which don't cost much to make is a great idea. While altruistic people will give anyway, this will probably snag additional donors. Plus its a great way to recognize someone's contribution, like a "I gave blood" sticker.
There is a lot of old IP out there that isn't worth that much anymore that could be used for charity purposes. Donate so much money and you can get movies, games, etc. IMO the end result of donations is better than the motivations of the donors.
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Lokalaskurar said:
How generous of the gamer community. Truly heart-warming
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Good on you Team Fortress 2 players!
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I'm a Japanese reader of this site.
I great appreciate their help regarding this matter X)
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That's more than North Korea donated - ($100,000?) hilarious.
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