This is one of those moments that gives you hope for the future of our civilisation, generally I feel that our entire civilisation is spiralling into a pit of greed and stupidity but there is hope.
Last week a local PS3 forum member with the screen name NiNJACQUES had his place broken into and all his worldly possessions stolen including his beloved PS3, TV and all his games.
So the local PS3 community got together and tried to see if they could raise enough money to get him a new PS3 in time for Modern Warfare 2 which will be landing on Tuesday.
The thread instantly exploded with well wishes but as always I didn’t expect it to get very far, then the first donations started to roll in followed by more and more. Suddenly the thread took on a life of it’s own and you couldn’t refresh fast enough to keep up with the donations.
I a few hours they had received promises of donations from enough people to buy a new PS3, TV and a bunch of games which was really incredible… but getting people to follow through on donations is another matter all together.
So when I logged on this morning and saw the donation list updated my heart lifted, 60 people have followed through with the promised payment for a total of R8 220 which will be used to buy a PS3 and 32†TV if my forum reading was correct.
But wait that’s not all, forum member r0dent will be donating MW2, Abev will be donating a PS3 skin with Swarley and Take2 and Kalahari.net have donated R250 and R500 vouchers respectively and to top it all off Chantal and Megarom will be donating some spare PS3 games to beef up his collection.
A big congratulations to the entire PS3 community for pulling through on this one, you guys and girls rock.
Check the entire list of donators through the link below.
Source: Local PS3 Forums
PS: If anyone has some spare change left please drop past our Movember post and help us out.
Last Updated: November 9, 2009
abev
November 9, 2009 at 08:35
Ah I was hooping you would run this story 🙂
The whole thing was absolutely brilliant really!
Seeing People give so selflessly to someone on the otherside of the interwebs was/is really impressive.
RSA-Ace
November 9, 2009 at 08:52
Wow this really is awesome.
This is when some big company needs to sponsor everything and give all the people who donated a prize.
Flake
November 9, 2009 at 09:08
I have been part of the PS3 community for a few months now – a bit of a lurker though, and I don’t mean to diss the 360 community but the PS3 community is light years ahead of the 360 guys. I say this even though I have good friends in the 360 community and have been apart of it since the 360’s launch. The PS3 guys are way friendlier and don’t have these giant chips on their shoulders. I could elaborate more, but in general the PS3 community has shaped up to be what the 360 community wishes it could be.
SlippyMadFrog
November 9, 2009 at 09:19
realy? Do you realy want to turn this amazing story into flame bait?
Goose
November 9, 2009 at 09:33
*looks for the groan button
Anyway, nice story! Did I mention I’d been burgled… or at least.. I’m planning on being burgled? :biggrin:
Flake
November 9, 2009 at 09:32
Not at all. Its just that I have seen more good things in the short time I’ve been with the PS3 community than I have over all the years I’ve been with the 360 community. It’s certainly not flamebait but I cannot help but draw the comparison. Back on topic, I commend the PS3 community for doing this.
Ladunia
November 9, 2009 at 10:32
Great work guys. Makes me proud to be a part of the awesome PS3ZA community.
Dareno
November 9, 2009 at 11:58
Hey lads, myself am an Xbox gamer, but seriosuly awesome job on what you guys managed to pull off! Kudos to all 🙂
PillsburyDeeBoy
November 9, 2009 at 21:08
Amazing. Really fantastic.