Call to Action: Dinner's on Us!
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2012-09-13 09:39 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Soon as I get paid tomorrow I'll pitch in. Paragon has made my evenings enjoyable, so why not give back?
My guides:Dark Melee/Dark Armor/Soul Mastery, Illusion Control/Kinetics/Primal Forces Mastery, Electric Armor
"Dark Armor is a complete waste as a tanking set."
Paid a gift.
�How do I like my MMOs? I like them the way Paragon Studios used to make them.� - a fitting tribute from kiasa.org
EU, Union mostly.
Great idea TonyV. I donated some Diablo 3 money to this effort.
Already 1/3 of the way to the cap. In, what, less than an hour?
Edit: Closer to half an hour, on careful inspection.
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Only if I get to pick the developer and choose what he or she is served.
I kid, I kid! I donated as soon as I saw the tweet about it this morning. 
Though, I have to admit - Bidding to feed a developer, ala the bid on a date paradigm, sounds weirdly entertaining.
Done!
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I assume they're required to carry a "Will design games for food" sign?
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Hah, that's a fantastic idea. Consider it done.
Thought for the day:
"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment."
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Done and thank you, Paragon Studios! I hope you have a wonderful time.
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Done.
Coh was really one of a kind - Keep finding ways we can throw money at the problem! :>
Welp, dinner's paid for. In less than three hours, too. We gotta get our act together, guys--that took way too long!
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Newton: I observed Mercury's perihelion moving 43 arc-seconds per century more than it should. Is this WAI? --Einstein |
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There are some other factors to conisder there Vulpish. First, this happened early thursday AM. Most people who get paid weekly get paid tomorrow.|
Originally Posted by vulpish_one
Welp, dinner's paid for. In less than three hours, too. We gotta get our act together, guys--that took way too long!
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and that doesnt count the varients that are "Once a month" (who usually get theirs on the close order of the first) and twice a month (1 and 15) etc
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I like to think that the "more money than sense" segments make up for it. *looks guilty*|
Originally Posted by Star Ranger 4
There are some other factors to conisder there Vulpish. First, this happened early thursday AM. Most people who get paid weekly get paid tomorrow.
and that doesnt count the varients that are "Once a month" (who usually get theirs on the close order of the first) and twice a month (1 and 15) etc |
But really, this is a fantastic gesture from the playerbase. Great idea.
Thought for the day:
"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment."
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I'm pretty sure he was kidding, but you do raise a good point. We raised a bit over $1,000 in less than three hours on a Thursday afternoon while a lot of people are probably still at work a day or two before most people get paid. I really, really thought that this would last at least a couple of days, and I was shooting for having a safe buffer of a few days before the day that I'm planning on asking the restaurant to make time and space for a large group of people.|
Originally Posted by Star Ranger 4
There are some other factors to conisder there Vulpish. First, this happened early thursday AM. Most people who get paid weekly get paid tomorrow.
and that doesnt count the varients that are "Once a month" (who usually get theirs on the close order of the first) and twice a month (1 and 15) etc |
A couple of days, at least, I thought. I really should have known better, but I swear, I even thought that was building in an optimism factor. This community never ceases to amaze me.
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
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As you've said. We're heroes. this is what we do! and your right, I think I totally missed the winkie smilie at the end of his post the first time around.
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Originally Posted by TonyV
IA couple of days, at least, I thought. I really should have known better, but I swear, I even thought that was building in an optimism factor. This community never ceases to amaze me.
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You can count me in............sent.
Enjoy the meal guys and gals.
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Now more than ever
Can we at least hire Joe Rogan as the server or MC? 
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If it had been "beer's on us" it would have taken only ninety seconds.
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Originally Posted by TonyV
We raised a bit over $1,000 in less than three hours on a Thursday afternoon while a lot of people are probably still at work a day or two before most people get paid.
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Does this mean that we can finally squelch, once and for all, Black Pebble's grousing that nobody ever buys him food?
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
Love it!
Saw this earlier, figured there'd be more time to chip in, LOL.
You people all rock!
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And y'all broke $1000 before I could get free time to donate. :P
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Wow, this was all done before I could even read the post. How can I throw money at the devs now?
Bump it up to $2000 so we can also buy them drinks & dessert and a cigar!
My guides:Dark Melee/Dark Armor/Soul Mastery, Illusion Control/Kinetics/Primal Forces Mastery, Electric Armor
"Dark Armor is a complete waste as a tanking set."
Cross-posted on the Titan Network forums
Success!!!
We've met our funding goal! In fact, before I could get the widget shut down, we overshot it by a little! I'll call the restaurant and make arrangements today as well as notify the staff of Paragon Studios to put on their eatin' hats. This is incredible. I honestly thought that it would take at least a couple of days, but this fundraiser lasted less than three hours. This is HUGE, folks, and I really appreciate your participation! Because we met our goal so quickly, if you didn't get a chance to donate, please know that this is going to be presented on behalf of the whole City of Heroes community.
Original message:
Hey all, it's time for our next Call to Action!
When I was at one of the Player Summits, someone leaked to me the name of a restaurant close to the studio where the Paragon Studios staffers went now and then for various occasions. So we got to thinking that a nice gesture on behalf of the community would be to rally up and raise the funds to get them to go again, but this time, the City of Heroes community is picking up the bill. So how can you help? We've posted a PayPal widget on the front page of the Paragon Wiki. You can see it here:
Dinner's on Us!
Just click the "Give" button, and PayPal handles the rest. Note that the contribution is processed via PayPal; we do not get your PayPal username, password or account information. Donations submitted through this widget go to our donations account, but are earmarked specifically for this event.
We want to express our gratitude for building the world in which our imaginations have lived. They've provided an unprecedented level of support and interactivity over the years. They've talked to us, listened to our feedback, even socialized with us, all the while providing a game that has an incredible level of innovation and fun.
Keep in mind that this is a small fundraiser. In the interest of keeping it that way, I've put increments as low as $5 and put a hard cap on the amount of $50 to keep anyone from going nuts on it. I'm also putting a hard limit on the amount of $1,000, which will cover the cost of dinner for the crew. We still might need a large fundraiser later for a possible crowd funding effort, so if you pitch in for dinner, keep that in mind.
Please note: In spite of my best efforts to get two different small fundraising widgets to work, something is causing the total to not update. Even though we've gotten $85 so far, the widget is stuck on $0. I wish I could have gotten that fixed before today, but for now, I am manually updating the number on the home page of the wiki once every hour or two. If you donate, please know that it is going through even if the number on the widget doesn't change. I'm updating the total manually every hour or two on the news page.
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)