Pepper-Head Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 I recently got back into one of the old pet games I used to play in middle school as a way to kind of waste time and enjoy myself. For the month of March and for the first time, they were fundraising for Red Nose Day - a charity you might be familiar with if you're from the UK (and they've slowly started making their way into the US.) They started donating 1/3 of their sales of the cash shop currency, but I guess they got enough sales that they upped it to 2/3 after two weeks! The prizes for donating were some sprite recolors and costumes, which is a nice incentive but not necessary or really amazing. So it was a great effort of the community to do something nice rather than purely an incentive for the game! https://pokefarm.com/ https://www.rednoseday.com/ Quote The Fundraiser is complete and we have raised an unbelievable £20,279.34! For reference, that's about equivalent to: - $25,328.90 USD - EUR 23,435.46€ - $33,257.48 AUD Or, translated otherwise, "a heck of a lot of money." In fact, it's so much money that the donation page won't accept it. I've reached out to my contact there to see if there's another way of paying it in, or if we'll need to make multiple donations. So yeah. We basically broke their system with just how much we've raised. Great job! To give you a bit of an idea of the size of the site, it typically has an average of 600-1,000 users online at a time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Wow, this is totally amazing and something that I would love to do here in time! I think being able to donate to charity is a big deal and very important! Congrats to them for raising so much and having such a good turnout! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kami Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 This is such a cool thing I love seeing people take advantage of their positions for philanthropy. That's something I'd love to be able to do one day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hare Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Wow! Impressive! And what a great win-win-win for everyone lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulSonny Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Such a nice thing to do and an impressive amount raised! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SingSong Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Thanks for sharing. I love seeing that an adoptable game was able to accomplish something like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Wow this is truly incredible that is a lot of money! Good cause as well Red Nose Day is definitely huge here in the UK - didn't know they were branching to America too mind you ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper-Head Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 @Callum - Yup, it started making its way in about two years ago. Spearheaded by a few big companies like Walgreens (where I work) and some brands like M&Ms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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