Blizzard gives St. Jude Children's Research Hospital a $330,000 donation
Earlier this week, Blizzard auctioned off some old server blades, which used to house the World of Warcraft. These blades were purcased by one lucky (and apparently rich) individual who is now the proud owner of a piece of PC gaming history at the cost of $330,000.
What would Blizzard do with this large sum? Put it towards the development of a WoW, Starcraft II, or Diablo III expansion? Maybe put it towards the creation of a new IP? No. In fact, the folks over at BLizzard would not be putting any of this money towards anything gaming related. But the funds would definitely be put to good use.
Blizzard donated the profit from the auction to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which provides children suffering from cancer and other life-threatening illness with the best medical care possible, while also dedicating its existance to finding cures to those very same illnesses.
To everyone at Blizzard, I sincerely tip my hat to you. You've done a truly wonderful thing.
Bravo!
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Graham7
These news are great. It is nice to see that someone is donating to our hospitals because patients always need resources. I think it's actually the best way to donate. Respect to those people. Regards, Graham from propecia
darkhyrulelord
That....awfully nice for them to do that, actually.
Flapperdoodle
Wow. Nice job Blizzard.
Heigen
330k to cancer RESEARCH would been more appropriate imo.
Alpha Unit
THAT IS SO FUGGIN AWESOME
KurzWeber75
$330,000 to Blizzard is pretty much the equivalent of $0.03 to the majority of us G1s. While the donation is great, more than I could ever give, it's not even enough to be considered pocket change to them. They were just taking out the garbage. And someone bought that garbage... for $330,000.
Chaos_f-15
Anyone, who give up a large sum of money to charity, deserves some degree of respect. The fact that you showed little to no respect in your comment shows how ignorant and disrespectful you are (it also shows that you don't know the business industry). I highly doubt if you had the money, you would give up even half the money that Blizzard donated. Until you can put your money where your mouth is, stop disrespecting Blizzard and show some respect.
King Meatball I
Agree. Nobody forced Blizzard to have an auction for charity but they decided the hospital could use the money more than themselves regardless of the actual amount in the end.
Its even possible the charity being tied to the auction helped raised the value of the server blades which ends up benefiting the hospital even more.
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