Not to rain on your parade, we have lurkers on this board. They know what you know in this thread.
There isn't going to be a surprise.
If their PR department is worth anything they know exactly where all the pressure is coming from and they follow these threads. I know you believe one huge package is somehow better than a flood of smaller ones but while I disagree with that thought I will still donate to the main fund.
I think hitting as many shareholders as possible with smaller packages would do more than one huge bundle to the main office. The huge bundle will arrive on the back shipping dock and the local manager will accept it or since there is no surprise since the PR folks let them know its coming, refuses delivery. If he accepts it the HR people step in spin it and in tomorrows local paper there is a blurb - NCSoft donates a ton of new clothing to the poor.
I work for a huge company and that is how they roll.
I will as I said donate but I personally think you lose the impact of one huge shipment instead of 5,000 small ones that arrive every day for 2 weeks.
And you don't think CBS knew about the impending peanuts? That campaign was carried out over CBS's own message board for the show. I could care less who is lurking on these boards, and if someone from NCSoft is, they're probably laughing their asses off.
I never expected this to be a surprise, and I thought about that before I even submitted the original post here. I also thought about a refusal of shipment. NCSoft would have to foot the bill to return it, and it would be much more simpler to call up a local charity for them to pick it up off their hands for free.
Thirdly, any corporation that would blatantly lie about the source of a donation is just asking for trouble. The potential backlash over such a lie concerning a charitable contribution would do their company more harm than it would be worth to try and lie about.
Now about shareholders, how do you propose we get the mailing address of hundreds of people who own stock in the company? When you figure that out, I'd be more than happy to start up a campaign directed at them.
As for individual shipments v.s. large shipments, neither is without pro's and cons.
But you saw where the mask campaign got us. It got us a [Placate].
NCSoft West called up the mothership, and the mothership pretty much gave them a stern look. It was never really NCSoft West's decision to shut down City of Heroes, even if ultimately someone there was responsible, but we'll never know for sure who the deciding individual was or where he was or what position he was in to make it should there have been alternatives.
This campaign is directly aimed at someone with at least some string pulling who can be hit in his own back yard - even if only for a moment.
As much of an alternate form of impact clogging their mail system would be with individual packages, I feel it has to be stated again that doing so
in this particular case, with this particular campaign, we would not achieve a potential media opportunity as a side effect, as again, we would never know the true impact of our collective efforts.
I appreciate your disagreement and support for this, and I'm not trying to be snarky or habitually in disagreement with everything anyone says about this campaign, but I am just trying to keep it balanced and simple.
I have to think of all sorts of things like the % of people who would actually get off their butts to go to the post office, etc. I guess that makes me a realist, but think about it, do you not think we could get more bang for our efforts if we catered to a wider audience?
There are people who would like to see CoH saved but don't care ENOUGH to say, go to the post office and write a letter, or heck, even an email. But they'll take the time to sign a petition, or donate $5 to something worthwhile. But anything else? Yeah, those are the fringe players. They're the gamers that can shrug their shoulders and just move onto the next game because they arn't as invested. There's nothing wrong with them, but we could use every ounce of support we can get if we're shooting for $100,000 here.
