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This is actually pretty decent, I think. If you buy any PopCap game today, 100% of the money (exl. taxes) goes to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
http://www.popcap.com/promos/haiti/
Pretty decent indeed; moves like this just show the world gamers (and developers) aren't the selfish monsters they are depicted to be.
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Post edited January 16, 2010 by DrIstvaan
I like the idea, just wish it wasn't Popcap. Only game I like from them if Plants Vs Zombie and I already aquired it, not worth $20. I might give $10 to a charity though if the Haitians stop wielding machetes and running in the streets.
Okay, PopCap's prices are officially insane. As near as I can tell, ALL their games cost $28. Their store shows me the prices in my local currency, and all of them are 145 dkk, which at the current exchange rate is $28.01. Even a game like Feeding Frenzy which is from 2004, and which costs $6.99 at Reflexive Arcade.
Good luck with that, PopCap.
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Wishbone: Okay, PopCap's prices are officially insane. As near as I can tell, ALL their games cost $28. Their store shows me the prices in my local currency, and all of them are 145 dkk, which at the current exchange rate is $28.01. Even a game like Feeding Frenzy which is from 2004, and which costs $6.99 at Reflexive Arcade.
Good luck with that, PopCap.

Well, that's true... They show up as 20 Euro for me. And yes, Reflexive Arcade has considerably better prices.
(Additional rant: of Zuma's Revenge, they only have the "Adventure" edition, which is basically ZR Light... making you buy the full game from their own store.)
Still, it MAY appeal to some people. It would be even better, though, if they gave all their earnings from the sale of their games on other outlets as well (such as Reflexive Arcade and Steam).
I agree their games are overpriced. But again, all the money goes to charity. So think of it as giving to charity and getting rewarded with some games in the process. It's a win-win situation.
And God knows the people of Haiti needs every bit of help they can get, even one meager Plants vs. Zombies purchase is going to matter to some poor souls down there.
I might give $10 to a charity though if the Haitians stop wielding machetes and running in the streets.

You know their prisons fell apart too, right? For every troublemaker there are tens of innocent families, and they not only need help, but also protection from those troublemakers.
Post edited January 16, 2010 by Zeewolf
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tb87670: I might give $10 to a charity though if the Haitians stop wielding machetes and running in the streets.

God, what a terrible thing to say. You know their prisons fell apart too and their have been mass breakouts? Are you one of those people who looked at footage from the post-Katrina disaster and called it "looting?"
We have no right to judge someone in the middle of a calamity the size of the ones we're talking about here. We're talking about the raw desperation of survival. Judging someone while they're down is a little callous.
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tb87670: I like the idea, just wish it wasn't Popcap. Only game I like from them if Plants Vs Zombie and I already aquired it, not worth $20. I might give $10 to a charity though if the Haitians stop wielding machetes and running in the streets.

Dude, that's Rwanda on a Monday...Haiti is going through a NATURAL disaster, not a civil war.
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Zeewolf: I agree their games are overpriced. But again, all the money goes to charity. So think of it as giving to charity and getting rewarded with some games in the process. It's a win-win situation.

But the games will cost the same tomorrow, when none of it will go to charity. Quite frankly, I'd rather donate $30 directly to one of the charities collecting for Haiti, than padding PopCap's sales statistics.
Also, note the asterisk on the page, right after "earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti.*" Follow that asterisk down to the bottom of the page, and you'll find "*Taxes not included." If I donate directly to a charity, then all of that money will go to the recovery effort, not that amount minus taxes.
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Wishbone: But the games will cost the same tomorrow, when none of it will go to charity. Quite frankly, I'd rather donate $30 directly to one of the charities collecting for Haiti, than padding PopCap's sales statistics.
Also, note the asterisk on the page, right after "earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti.*" Follow that asterisk down to the bottom of the page, and you'll find "*Taxes not included." If I donate directly to a charity, then all of that money will go to the recovery effort, not that amount minus taxes.

Yeah, I know, I mentioned it in the first post. I just find it a bit a bit meaningless to complain about prices when we're basically talking about donations, as if the price of a PopCap game is too much to give.
If you donate the same amount somewhere else, you get nothing. Here you get a game or two "for free" (or, if you want to nitpick, the cost of the taxes - which still makes them pretty cheap). A great bonus, in other words.
Yeah, getting stuff isn't exactly the point of giving, but who cares about that? It's the giving that matters. And the people of Haiti needs all the help they can possibly get. So if you've been wanting Plants vs. Zombies for a while, today is the perfect day to buy it.
And let's be honest here, if GOG came up with this idea we'd all be loving it.
The important thing is to give money in the first place, of course. So if you donate directly to a charity, that's even better. Just do it, instead of talking about it. :-)
Post edited January 16, 2010 by Zeewolf
Thank you so much for posting this!
This is a great way for me to feel less guilty about my guilty pleasure of playing PopCap games! ;)
For those of you that are unfamiliar with PopCap, they make some really great games. They are largely geared to the casual, but they often end up having a lot of depth as you get into them. Here are a few I would recommend:
1. Plants VS Zombies is their best. It's one of the best tower defense games ever made.
2. Peggle. I feel funny playing a game with so many unicorns, but it's utterly enjoyable. You launch pinballs downwards and try to break all the pegs on the board.
3. Bejeweled. It's a match 3 puzzle game. The Puzzle Quest series is better, but this is where they stole their ideas from.
4. Bookworm Adventures. You fight in turn-based battles where the strength of your attack depends on the length of words you can create from a jumbled pile of letters. It's sort of like a Scrabble RPG with nursery rhyme characters.
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Wishbone: Also, note the asterisk on the page, right after "earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti.*" Follow that asterisk down to the bottom of the page, and you'll find "*Taxes not included." If I donate directly to a charity, then all of that money will go to the recovery effort, not that amount minus taxes.
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Zeewolf: Yeah, I know, I mentioned it in the first post.

So you did, I hadn't noticed.
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Zeewolf: I just find it a bit a bit meaningless to complain about prices when we're basically talking about donations, as if the price of a PopCap game is too much to give.

If I thought it was too much to give, I wouldn't be talking about donating more than that to charity.
And I wasn't complaining about it in the context of charity, but in the context of game pricing. Hence my comment that those games will cost the same tomorrow, when none of it goes to charity.
I agree the games are overpriced on PopCap's site given how easy it is to find them cheaper elsewhere. This is all going to charity though. I'm happy to donate $20 bucks to Haiti, even though I wouldn't pay that much for Bookworm Adventures 2 otherwise (which I just bought).
If $20 is more than you would like to donate, try signing up for their newsletter. You get a coupon code for 10% off your purchase just for signing up. Also, when you buy one game, PopCap offers you a second game for even less money. I ended up adding Bejeweled to my order for another $8. In my mind, I just gave 28 to charity and spent $2.65 (the tax) on these two games. That's a good deal by my standards.
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tb87670: I might give $10 to a charity though if the Haitians stop wielding machetes and running in the streets.
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Cliftor: God, what a terrible thing to say. You know their prisons fell apart too and their have been mass breakouts? Are you one of those people who looked at footage from the post-Katrina disaster and called it "looting?"
We have no right to judge someone in the middle of a calamity the size of the ones we're talking about here. We're talking about the raw desperation of survival. Judging someone while they're down is a little callous.

Seems the internet sends no notion of sarcasm. I would still rather send my money to an official charity personally than to a game company. That's a middleman in the works.
Games on Popcap's HK store are insanely cheap for no reason. Here, Plants vs Zombies is $3 US. And that's not a discount or any crap like that.