For those of you who don’t check the Left 4 Dead blog too often, and none would blame you, Erik Johnson posted on the 13th explaining that Gabe Newell and him had returned from their trip over in Australia. The visitation, for those who don’t keep up to date with the Valve news, was to test out Joe W-A’s Left 4 Dead campaign, after a few joke e-mails between the parties resulted in Joe W-A’s community forking over $3000 in under 48 hours.
The blog post explained that Valve was unable to actually make the contributors pay for their ticket, and instead donated the $3000 to Child’s Play, a video game based charity organization. However, they still counted the contributors donations in a pretty long image, showing the contributor’s name, amount and the distance that amount got them. The chart can be found by clicking the image below:
Pictures from the trip, as well as videos and information can be found on the Fly Gabe Newell blog set up by Joe W-A.
October 21st, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Doesn’t Gabe Newell have more money than god at this point? Did he really need to rely on donations?
October 21st, 2009 at 5:10 pm
He didn’t. He was joking around saying he wouldn’t fly Joe to Seattle to try his mod (which might not have been a joke, but he worded it as one), when the community decided to donate for the hell of it, to flay Gabe and Erik to Austrailia. They then took that money, gave it to charity, and payed out of their own pocket to go.
Which just means that twice as much was spent, but the donations did go to a good cause anyways.
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:07 am
Oh. I feel like an ass now. lol that’s good at least.