Game News Buy SimCity DLC - Support Red Cross

[Whisky]

Tags: EA Games; Maxis; Sim City

SimCity has a new piece of DLC available with an interesting hook to get people to buy it. 80% of the proceeds after covering the cost of making the DLC will be going to the Red Cross.

It seems a bit odd that a city with a grand total of four blocks would have a Red Cross center for domestic emergencies.

 

[felipepepe]

80% of the proceeds after covering the cost of making the DLC will be going to the Red Cross.

That's the greediest charity DLC I've ever seen.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Considering how much effort it must have took to make it (almost none), I imagine the cost will be quickly covered. Then again, that doesn't really help their side, since they'll still be getting 20% out it

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Considering how much effort it must have took to make it (almost none)

Hello, this is EA we are talking. Shit must have costed at least quarter of a million to make.

 

[thesheeep]

I'm pretty sure the building is fully voiced by an actual stone.

 

[Zeriel]

Considering how much effort it must have took to make it (almost none), I imagine the cost will be quickly covered. Then again, that doesn't really help their side, since they'll still be getting 20% out it

"Creative accounting" would just peg the cost of making it at whatever profits they desire. Same way Hollywood studios love to say they are losing money on a film, because then they can get huge tax breaks or wiggle out of contractual obligations.

 

[Spectacle]

Reminds me of the Aid Camps you can build in Tropico, that provide food and health care for free, but make everyone gradually lose respect for the president.

 

[Gragt]

Considering how much effort it must have took to make it (almost none), I imagine the cost will be quickly covered. Then again, that doesn't really help their side, since they'll still be getting 20% out it

"Creative accounting" would just peg the cost of making it at whatever profits they desire. Same way Hollywood studios love to say they are losing money on a film, because then they can get huge tax breaks or wiggle out of contractual obligations.

The Producers may be a comedy but it isn't so far removed from reality. Some studios create film labels destined to produce mainly crap that will flop so they can reduce their profits. That may seem counterproductive but this is money they would have lost as taxes anyway, and like this they build a library of crappy film to sell to television networks and make profit over time—TV stations do not want to always show the latest succesful blockbusters and sometimes want some cheap padding. One of the most infamous exemple is the now-defunct Hollywood Pictures, a label of Walt Disney where they poured all the extra money from their neverending cash supplies that are The Little Mermaid or The Lion King and their derivatives.

 

[Mortmal]

Disgusting, if you want you can give 100% of the dlc money to red cross if you really wants to help charity.

 

[Whisky]

Disgusting, if you want you can give 100% of the dlc money to red cross if you really wants to help charity.

How dare you want to only give money to the Red Cross! Fucking entitled gamers...

 

[Gragt]

In the meantime if you do not buy this DLC you have no heart.

 

[Cassidy]

In the meantime if you do not buy this DLC you have no heart.

Nothing good can come from what the soulless sell.

 

[Space Satan]