McBride's Fundraiser

[Caution]

Hello everyone,

 

Sorry it has taken me a few days to wrap this thing up - it has certainly been a hectic month for me and I really haven't been around too much and had other obligations I had to attend to.

 

Anyways, this is about the results of the August fundraiser we held for McBride & his family. Last month, we were going to donate 50% of our earnings to Mcbride for him to do whatever he wishes with. Including all PayPal fees and subtracting our monthly dedi cost, his portion came out to be $351.27, which we'll just round to $352. Congratulations to McBride and thanks again everyone for the turnout and the support.

 

However, I want to be upfront when I tell you that I deceived every single one of you when I told you that we were going to donate 50% of our profits to McBride. Since this entire thing started, I have never intended to give McBride this amount, even when it was just an idea between Spiked and myself. Sorry, McBride, but you will not be receiving $352 from us.

 

"But why, Caution? How could you tell us all that half of what we donate would go to McBride, then turn around and not give it to him?"

 

Quite frankly, there are very few things around here that excite me anymore. That doesn't mean I dislike this place or don't have fun here, but anyone who has served as an AO or higher for longer than 6 months will quickly tell you the shift to a managerial role can be a difficult one. It's not really about playing on the servers and messing around anymore, it's about policies, punishments, meetings, managing, so on and so forth. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's easy to become burned out on it - so once again, thank you to all my AO's, TA's, BD's, and my VP who stick around running the show. Someone who was recently banned made some sort of comment about us being power hungry at the top...I can promise you that we could give an absolute shit less about that. We do the things we do because we've been around for a decade - most gaming communities cannot say the same. While we venture outside of our comfort zone here and there, we try and stick to our old traditions because we truly believe they work.

 

Anyways, deceiving all of you, including McBride, excited me greatly. Why? This entire month, I was pretty ecstatic about the amount of money that we were going to receive in VIP / Sub / Credit purchases. Spiked was in on it with me the whole time, but other than that, not a soul knew (unless Spiked opened his big fat mouth). We had absolutely never intended on giving McBride 50% of our profits. Ever.

 

When we started this fundraiser, we wanted it to be sort of a secret when we launched it. But, out of respect for McBride and his privacy, we obviously could not do that comfortably. So, after he said it was okay, we started the process to launch the fundraiser. I mentioned earlier that Spiked and I don't typically get too 'excited' about things around here as much anymore - launching this fundraiser was a bit different...but we still wanted more. Unfortunately, we lost the element of surprise just due to the nature of the event. So, instead of being up front with everyone about what our true intentions were, we kept it a secret because we wanted to be able to still have some sort of surprise.

 

@McBride - you will not be getting $354. We never planned on giving you 50% of our profits...because, from the beginning, we always planned on giving you 100% of our profits for this month...which brings us to a new amount of $708. We just wanted to surprise you again in a positive way one more time. Good luck bro and I wish you nothing but the best =]

 

To everyone who participated in the fundraiser: thanks for your help and thanks for your support. This was a true time for all of us to pull together to help a fellow community member, and you guys did an awesome job. I'm sure you can understand now why we tricked all of you

 

Thanks everyone.

[McBride]

That is a shocker for me. I never expected this out of the community. This will help My wife and I tremendously with some of the ongoing issues regarding bills. I'm glad you guys in the management team found this enjoyable and it got you guys excited for something. This act right here just goes to show how much Caution and Spiked and the BD team actually cares about the SG community and its members. I would like to thank everyone who donated, everyone who steam messaged me with positive words of encouragement, caution, spiked, and anyone else who was/is involved in this. It means a lot to my wife and I.

[All Ts]

Caution made it seem like they raked in the cash and ran with it at first. Fucking troll.

[Zaraki]

How's that for a summer event idea ;)

[Chloe Gallagher]

If I had more than just $2 I would've donated, but I have an idea on how I can make it up to you soon.

[Elemental]

I was this close to packing up and leaving, until I read the last few lines lmao

[SpaZMonKeY]

 

Seriously though, that's awesome. Thanks to everyone who could support!

[Metal]

Great to see good in the world.

Thanks to everyone for helping mcbride =)

[SL4DE]

This post is gold, well done. Stay Safe McBridge, and best wishes to ya.