Inspired completely by the overwatch community, it would be really cool if firefighter Tristana (a great skin btw) was made available (if it's not already) with proceeds going to the fires in Australia. Alien invader heimerdinger was around for the area 51 raid and there is a social impact fund for this kind of stuff so I feel like it would be feasible and fitting.
External link →Riot already stated considering they would have to decide which tragedy to support they prefer to make a yearly or monthly (I don't remember) donation than having to decide each time. This happened early in the Amazonia fire's.
We've already reached out to International Medical Corps to see how we can support, or if not IMC directly, another great partner to work with in the region. If you're wanting to make a direct impact, there's a lot of good organizations out there you can support (just do a bit of research to make sure they're legit!).
That said, wanted to provide some extra background into our approach to social impact and charity fundraising as it's a bit different than others... For disaster relief, many in this thread have shared that we like to "forward fund" our support for various reasons. Not to say that every bit of effort doesn't help, however putting things on sale to support X cause is much more complicated than people realize.
For example, each state in the US (along with every other country) has different regulations, filing requirements, etc, regarding the sale of an item to support charitable causes. It's nuts - for our current Dawnbringer Karma charity fundraiser, we had to begin work roughly 6 months in advance of the sale.
That's one of the reasons we wanted to create the Social Impact Fund, to make it so that we can do these activities more easily across multiple gamessssss. Plus, we can do really cool sh*t like give players a vote in which cause is most meaningful to them. Eventually, we can use the fund to work across companies as well to collectively direct funding and support to some truly intractable problems.
Here's my ask though: don't come down on people wanting to help. There's not enough of that in the world right now, IMO.
Thanks for the clarification.
Here's my ask though: don't come down on people wanting to help. There's not enough of that in the world right now, IMO.
I did not tho! I just thought was the same as last year thread https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/6z65wj/riot_should_put_forecast_janna_for_sale_and/dmtebo7/ turns out I was wrong, but never tried to do so
Oh, poorly worded on my part - didn't mean you in particular. Saw a lot of negative comments in the thread further down
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