My Idea to Keep the Server Up

[VincentVolaju]

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

If the devs would make some mention that the problem could helped by donations SOON, it would be great. If the server stays down for weeks or more, we would lose momentum and donations. People would check out the game, see it's "still down," and move on to another game.
People are just waiting to help now, so we should take advantage of it.

Agreed

[url0st]

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

If the devs would make some mention that the problem could helped by donations SOON, it would be great. If the server stays down for weeks or more, we would lose momentum and donations. People would check out the game, see it's "still down," and move on to another game.
People are just waiting to help now, so we should take advantage of it.

Exactly.

[Eastwood]

I think the scary thing about accepting large donations is also the potential lawsuits that could come from SOE.

What if we pitched in thousands to protect and keep the server up only to see a lawsuit hit the server days later and waste all our money?

[Fraud]

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

...Unless of course money cant fix our problem.

Hahahahahaha, money not fixing problems.

[url0st]

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

I think the scary thing about accepting large donations is also the potential lawsuits that could come from SOE.

What if we pitched in thousands to protect and keep the server up only to see a lawsuit hit the server days later and waste all our money?

were not paying to access the content tho, we would be donating to protect the content.

[choklo]

That's a good question. I think the important thing to do is:
1) to verify that donations can help them fix the problem.
2) to NOT donate more than you can afford to lose.

I doubt sony is going to care about donations, especially when we only have about 2-3k people playing. I'm no lawyer though.

[alreadyhome]

I am sure they will be on soon to make some sort of comment of what's going on, everyone be patient and perhaps try to keep your thoughts to this thread so everything is centralized for them.

[dacduster]

Put me down for a good donation, if this is possible.

[harojaro91]

I would donate at least $50. Probably a good bit more if I knew it were going to make a difference.

[Drubu]

They should definitely take emergency donation sooner rather than later, since average mmo player will "move on" in 2+ weeks of downtime. Some might come back but 5-6 out of 10 will find something else. With a month of downtime it gets even worse...maybe 1-3 out of 10 would come back..

At least right now morale is high and people are willing to pay to get it fixed, some are even willing to pay alot to get it done fast.