What kinds of people are making donations?
Mostly gamers, as you might imagine, though more recently we’ve been seeing lots of expansion within that psychographic. In the beginning it was the prototypical 18-24 college student with an old collection, but lately we’ve received donations from the length and breadth of the gamer population. Some notable donations have come from lawyers, sanitation workers, even a few military personnel. Nowadays saying “I play video games” is about as rare as “I drink Coke”, so in a sense I’m not surprised to find gamers in these professions – what is surprising is how far our message has disseminated into these areas you’d normally never associate with gaming. Have you had publishers and hardware manufacturers donate anything? Occasionally, though the process usually takes a good helping of patience and a fair bit of luck. I worked on Microsoft for nearly two years before I finally found someone with the right connections and authority to authorize a donation, but when they finally came through t
