$50,000 Raised during Extra life 2013 - Help kids, Get stuff!

[Sapience]

You know, Sapience...it wouldn't bother me (now, I am speaking for myself) at all if you waited at least until the beginning of the new year, so you can get you holiday celebrating in. I know for me I am not even done with my gift shopping and we have family over, so pretty busy this time of year! So, have a good time and enjoy. Take your time...Happy Holidays!

I realy wanted to get everything out and titles to player before the holidays, but I'm starting to think this might end up being impossible. No emails went out last Friday, and thanks to a family holiday party where we seem to have shared a pretty vicious stomach flu, I'm a lot farther behind than I had hoped to be. At worst I hoped to be done by Tomorrow.

If I cannot get everything out by this Friday, the 18th, I fear I may have to post pone until Jan 6 as I'll be pretty swammped with family and the Holidays. I'll make an update on Friday.

AS an aside, I actually had to increase the RAM in my PC to be able to handle the donors list. 1900+ donations wasn't making my PC very happy.

AS for which email, it will be sent to whichever email you included with your donation. If you didn't include one (or make your email visible to me) then as it said on the page I have no way to send your codes.

[Baggins]

Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays to you Sapience.

Well I hope my email made it through. I don't think I put myself into 'anonymous' mode, I hope. I did notice the checkbox, and avoided it.

In addition I posted my email twice, in the regular email/contact information slot, and also in the special instructions sections. As far as I'm aware those are what will have been given to you?

[Darlgon]

Man.. a chance to say "soon", "Soon" or "SOON" and you missed it.

[Whiteberry_Laurelin]

I realy wanted to get everything out and titles to player before the holidays, but I'm starting to think this might end up being impossible. No emails went out last Friday, and thanks to a family holiday party where we seem to have shared a pretty vicious stomach flu, I'm a lot farther behind than I had hoped to be. At worst I hoped to be done by Tomorrow.

If I cannot get everything out by this Friday, the 18th, I fear I may have to post pone until Jan 6 as I'll be pretty swammped with family and the Holidays. I'll make an update on Friday.

AS an aside, I actually had to increase the RAM in my PC to be able to handle the donors list. 1900+ donations wasn't making my PC very happy.

AS for which email, it will be sent to whichever email you included with your donation. If you didn't include one (or make your email visible to me) then as it said on the page I have no way to send your codes.

Get well!

P.S. We won't tell anyone, but the size of the donor list is obviously just an excuse to get more bling

[Littlesky]

I'm curious - if we for whatever reason didn't include email (didn't notice the anonymous checkbox, etc) if we get you a screenshot as proof that we did donate/participate with an email to include, would that count?

[Sapience]

Man.. a chance to say "soon", "Soon" or "SOON" and you missed it.

I told you I haven't been feeling well. Guess that proves it.

Get well!

P.S. We won't tell anyone, but the size of the donor list is obviously just an excuse to get more bling

Opps... busted.

I'm curious - if we for whatever reason didn't include email (didn't notice the anonymous checkbox, etc) if we get you a screenshot as proof that we did donate/participate with an email to include, would that count?

If you don't get an email after I send them out, you can send me a copy of the reciept they sent you and your email and I'll take care of it. But please don't send it until after I've announced all emails were sent. it's really hard to sort through one list, never mind a second list as well.

[Werituk1]

Relax ... get well .. and enjoy the break

Have a Merry Christmas and All the Best for the New Year

[Littlesky]

I was just thinking it would suck to take advantage of the sale on Helm's Deep and get a key... haha.

Edit to clarify: Not suck as in REALLY SUCK, but suck as in "I make little enough money that the sale makes the difference between me being able to buy Helm's Deep on the 1st or not" and that if I did indeed get a HD key (doubtful but you never know) I'd have two copies. I unfortunately do not have any friends who play or I'd give the HD key (knock on wood) on. It's a minor dilemma to be sure. That's all I meant. Please put the pitchfork down.

[Winnower]

Have a great holiday and worry about getting out the emails later.

-Ayida the Winnower

[Raesharra]

@LittleSky

If you are so lucky to win one of the keys, you could continue to share the wealth - put the key up on eBay or similar and donate the proceeds to the auction to a charity. Just a thought.

[Littlesky]

@LittleSky

If you are so lucky to win one of the keys, you could continue to share the wealth - put the key up on eBay or similar and donate the proceeds to the auction to a charity. Just a thought.

That's a good point. I like the charity idea. I wonder if Extra Life is still taking donations now? Hmm. I'll have to decide later if I win!

[Brujj]

Hope you are feeling better Sapience. Been a long Holiday

I told you I haven't been feeling well. Guess that proves it.



Opps... busted.



If you don't get an email after I send them out, you can send me a copy of the reciept they sent you and your email and I'll take care of it. But please don't send it until after I've announced all emails were sent. it's really hard to sort through one list, never mind a second list as well.

[rosey21]

Hope you are feeling better Sapience. Been a long Holiday

Especially today, it's his Birthday I believe.

[Brujj]

Especially today, it's his Birthday I believe.

Well good, I hope you had a nice birthday then Sapience.

[Terrolf]

Hi,

I was just wondering if there is an update yet as to when the codes will be sent to us?

Cheers!

[Datheor]

Same here. Any updates?

[Tigerlilley]

I would like to know too as the deadline keeps getting pushed back over and over - are we even going to get these any more?

[Ganthanal]

I did donate, not alot, but what small amount I could afford at the time.
I get that whomever is working on the ingame items might be slightly overworked, or swamped with work related stuff piled up from the holidays.
But, what I DO expect is the truth....don't just spout out a date in the future to keep us semi-placated. if it's going to be April 23rd, just say it. I can respect that WAY more than every few weeks worth of blather because you're not ready.

[Brigraen]

However I am assuming by the responses in the thread that the emails with the codes have not gone out yet.

I hope you are feeling better though and had a good new year so far!

[gixxer1025]

I do believe this thread and player's questions have been ignored yet, the is time to create 29 new characters and post about that. Priorities please. I don't understand how you feel it's ok to tell the community one thing and then do another.

[Ardster]

come on folks. give sapience some slack. does anyone really think that a person that went to bat for a charity like he did is going to NOT going to keep his word?

these rewards are bits and bytes.

the money you generously donated, no matter the amount, is making a difference in the real world.

let's not lose sight of that over some in game "stuff", ok?

[Dotlbeme]

I will say the promises of game stuff were neat, but I never donated money for any 'game' rewards. Count on me for next year too!

[gixxer1025]

come on folks. give sapience some slack. does anyone really think that a person that went to bat for a charity like he did is going to NOT going to keep his word?

these rewards are bits and bytes.

the money you generously donated, no matter the amount, is making a difference in the real world.

let's not lose sight of that over some in game "stuff", ok?

You're completly right and I agree 100% regardless of what I posted before. Not being updated is just frustrating.

[rosey21]

People need to chill. You will get your rewards. I donated the year before last & it took some time but I got them. It's worse with this one because more people donated. He has 1900 people to get stuff too.

[Happybudgy]

Last year it took till about mid April to get it all done, and this was with the help of Victorie, in Account Management.

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...charity/page24


Those who indicate that donations were not/should not be made to receive the incentives forget that the incentives were the carrots that led to the $50,000 mark.

Those who won draws when milestone amounts were reached got their winnings right away I believe.
Those who did not win those draws should not be made to feel bad for wanting their goodies.
After all, together they raised so much more money than last year.


By the way, from this site:
http://lotroplayers.mymiddleearth.co...-january-2014/

"The power outage that delayed the release of HD also messed up the hardware that runs the Lotteries. As a result they are down with no ETA."

No lottery named after the kin with the highest total of donations