Sapphire
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If a job/company is worth it's salt, there is a mutual relationship between the employer and employee such that, both understand and recognize each other's value. The employer uses the employee to a means to be more profitable, where as the employee uses the employer to create income. Emploiyers should be recognizing hard workers for their efforts not only through promotions and raises, but even via other means of recognition. This could be in the form of gifts. Many companies have accounts specifically for recognition activities of some kind. SOme of this can be for everyone (like an office party) or it could be individual stuff. Also, the sports/Olympics analogy I don't think applies here. The argument stems from the idea of a race, or a winner and there being a close finish. This isn't about sniping. It isn't about the close finish (which it actually wasn't close) If you read Chaotic's post, and others who've alluded to this, it's about their outsized contributions. If we are looking at the difference between #25 vs #26 , the difference is 7,950 tokens. A very quick 5k donation made 2x would have sniped this. In fact, likely, #25 sniped #26 to get to #25. If we are looking at the difference between #50 vs #51, we are looking at a difference of 3400. A single 5k donation swaps these two. If you notice, nobody is advocating for #26 to get the #25 prize nor #51 getting the #50 prize. In other words, that 200 meter dash participant who was in 4th place in your olympic example is .1 seconds behind. Nobody would advocate for them to get a bronze also. SAme thing here. It's because it's not about that. What people are recognizing, and many here are not, is the contribution that $6 and #7 gave to the total goal, as well as the amount of tokens they likely purchased in order to be competitive. These two players BOUGHT the lion's share of this and donated 5,706,400 tokens. For perspective, #8 through #22 matches this number combined. Their attempt to get top 5 caused 1-5 to donate more. The top 7 is largely why we met the stretch goal, as well. Look, I made 200k tokens via donations alone during this entire event, 100k on the last day. it allowed me to use about 70k of my own. That's it. 70k. The top 5 race was a huge boon to the company because these tokens were not redonations. They were 100% via purchases. And likely, nearly every player received extra tokens from the top 7 because they were battling it out. So not only did everyone prosper...the players, AQ, etc, but people are advocating for giving these two players an item..not for missing out via being sniped... but rather for contributing so much as a percentage of the total. It's like saying thank you for your generous purchases, so here's something for you. There's zero wrong with that. It IS warranted, and it doesn't mean that staff put themselves in a predicament that they must do this from now on.
< Message edited by Sapphire -- 8/31/2024 10:46:11 >
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