I know that my doubts over the prize pool have personally stopped me from contributing - many others share my apprehension. In the interests of transparency, and coh2 itself, I think it would help for the community to be in the loop a little more. Who knows, maybe we could reach 10k and have Hans eat some Soap as well
This.
And If you have a cow you can kill it and eat it or you can milk it for years to come.
It maybe would have been better to let a bigger % of the money go in to prize pool. This would have increased donations and the bigger prize pool would have increased the interest in the game. This would have hyped the game making it a big milker for years to come.