WoW Insider Show Episode 92: Giving Druids another chance
by Mike Schramm 
Jun 1st 2009 at 5:00PM
We had a great time as always last Saturday on our podcast -- Turpster and I welcomed Kevin Dika, the winner of the Child's Play Children's Week auction, who gave a very generous donation to Penny Arcade's charity and won a guest spot with us on the show. We talked with Kevin about his WoW experience -- he plays a Ret Pally, but hey, nobody's perfect, right? -- and got some insight from him about running a guild in the game and what a tough job it can be, how to deal with kids and other folks playing along with you, and how to come up with a worthwhile balance between playing the game and living in real life. We answered your emails (including a few more "Turpster is..." emails), and then we talked about the most popular posts from the last week of WoW.com: the new Druid art form coming to the game, what's new in 3.1.3, and where Blizzard has gone wrong recently with 5-mans, and where they might go next.It was an excellent show, and we're happy to have Kevin on to thank him for his support (and he did a pretty great job on the podcast, too). We'll be back on as usual next Saturday at 3:30pm Eastern over on the Ustream page, and we might even do some more video streaming next week -- we did a little bit during the aftershow this week, and it worked out better than I thought. Stay tuned.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ccavall Jun 1st 2009 5:42PM
"Kevin Dika, the winner of the Child's Play Children's Week auction, who gave a very generous donation to Penny Arcade's charity" In my opinion how that is worded it sounds like he pretty much just bought the win.
They may say there was a random way to win but we don't know that is 100% true.
I've worked for Non-profit organizations before and anytime there is a big public stunt the people who donate the most money will allways be out in the public getting the most publicity ect. even though there are a 100+ other people who help out and give there time/money to the cause
I hope this is not the case with this organization. that they would pick a winner just because of his "Very generous donation"
pyratus Jun 1st 2009 6:06PM
It was an auction.. The highest donation usually does win.
Oteo Jun 1st 2009 6:12PM
I could just be missing something because I don't know the details, but if he won this spot through an auction... well then he DID buy the win. That's the point of an auction: highest bidder wins.
Loadead Jun 1st 2009 7:45PM
He didn't "buy" the spot on The WI show. He bought video game consoles for hospitals to use, the guest spot on the show was a reward for that. Besides, Schramm's comments alluded to the fact that before the auction, he could have been bought out for far, far less than what Mr. Dika paid.
Crööl Jun 2nd 2009 3:05PM
Being someone who was born with Spina Bifida and has done his best to help his exwfe's 4 year old son beat a deadly form of cancer, I have no issue with rewarding someone who gives so much.
Don't be so quick to judge to what is 'fair' in terms of someone winning something by how much money he/she gives. That is the ONLY point of raising money for a charity.
The charities know it is a 'stunt' and ya know what? It helps raise money really, really well and it helps the kids and their families.
Good job to all involved.
Jermakis Jun 4th 2009 1:11AM
Great show this week. My main is a druid and was excited that the theme of the show was about Druids...plus Turpster answered my e-mail... w00t!