What's the deal with all the "Donating" for ports?

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Originally Posted by pickled_heretic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In life, it's a problem, because you see nonprofit organizations dodge taxes and so forth by accepting "mandatory donations" for various services and products. It's a misuse of the term "donation," which implies 100% voluntary payment, rather than a compulsory fee. Commerce is not regulated in everquest, though, so people can say whatever they want, but it's still considered a misuse of the term. On the other hand, people shouldn't be railed for porting people as a business and charging a fee. It makes more sense in many circumstances to both the client and the porter to have a flat fee. You don't feel like you've been shit on as a porter if you don't get paid and the customer doesn't feel awkward not knowing how much you expect for your services.

K so you're saying if you were a newb and I said 20p a port, and you only had 5p, I can tell you to stuff yourself? ( obviously I could say it anyway but you know what I mean )

Reason for donation is some people don't have a huge amount of plat, hense donation. A porter would probably only feel shit on if a level 50 epic'd out gave him like 5p, that would be kind of weird, but in the end, it's still a donation. Fixed rate would be lame idea for newbs / corpse runners. Now of course I know there are pity ports, but that isn't your argument so :P