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Activision Donates $1M On Game's Launch Day To Help Vets

kotaku.com.au — Activision plans to unveil a $US1 million backed non-profit corporation tomorrow designed to help soldiers transition to civilian careers tomorrow.

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  • MuseMike, on 11/09/2009, -14/+204***** DRAGON AGE!!!
  • Ender1, on 11/09/2009, -10/+179They could have donated 2 Million if they had kept dedicated servers.
  • 3nder99, on 11/09/2009, -6/+161I'm so tired of you guys bitching about dedicated servers. I mean come on. They gave you some great features.

    Mouse support
    In game Chat
    Graphics settings

    I can't wait for MW3. I hear they are going to add Keyboard support.
  • TheROOKlE, on 11/09/2009, -2/+123hey look dragon age is out
  • teamr, on 11/09/2009, -2/+85DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS IN STORES NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!
  • theonlywizdum, on 11/09/2009, -3/+59Awesome
  • outfed, on 11/09/2009, -3/+39WTF how is dragon age circumnavigating my ABP?
  • theonlywizdum, on 11/09/2009, -0/+29I think you mean "circumventing". Circumnavigating would mean that it is spinning around your ABP.
  • mbraynard, on 11/10/2009, -1/+30This is so great they spent $5mil on advertising telling people about the donation.
  • ELCad, on 11/09/2009, -1/+29I have Adblock and I still see the Dragon Age background.
  • JoeF8577, on 11/09/2009, -13/+38:standing ovation:
  • overridemymind, on 11/10/2009, -2/+27Hey, Digg -- I just wanted to let you know that simply because of your obnoxious-ass ads, I will NOT be purchasing Dragon Age: Origins -- EVER. No matter how awesome the game may be -- and it's all thanks to you and your lousy ***** ads.

    Just thought I'd share.

    Cheers.
  • omniatlas, on 11/09/2009, -1/+23jeez, someone please take away this intrusive ad. you're wasting my bandwidth and real estate.
  • bagelmaster, on 11/09/2009, -2/+24I'm conflicted on digging you up for agreeing that Dragon Age is good or digging you down for not bitching about the ads. I leave you at 0 diggs.
  • Rothbardosaurus, on 11/09/2009, -3/+23Adblock, ACTIVATE!
  • AndrewDB, on 11/10/2009, -0/+18Right click, Adblock Image.

    Granted it turns the whole thing in to a black blocky mess worse than the spot on Mikhail Gorbachev's head, but .. it still works.
  • fullmetal297, on 11/09/2009, -0/+16Wait until the vets play the "No Russian" level.
  • TSCheredar, on 11/09/2009, -5/+21It's good to see the company not losing sight of what was sacrificed by our war vets to allow us to even play these games for the purpose of entertainment.

    Very very cool.
  • dvsbastard, on 11/09/2009, -5/+21Reading the title I thought "What the ***** does Activision have to do with Animal Doctors?!"

    Good to see what they are doin' though!
  • outfed, on 11/09/2009, -1/+14Then you sir, are an idiot.
  • heridfel, on 11/09/2009, -4/+16I do applaud their efforts, it's just too bad they don't care about the PC consumer who gave them that money in the first place.
  • harpoonhank420, on 11/10/2009, -3/+15IM NOT ***** BUYING DRAGON AGE! RAAAAAAAGEEEEEEEEE
  • eadnams, on 11/09/2009, -2/+14I can respect that :)
  • cyrix, on 11/10/2009, -2/+12[citation needed]
  • Hetman, on 11/09/2009, -0/+10Damnit now I get it. This is the first time that dragon age ad has ***** up my screen. On another note I pumped about COD2 and it is nice to donate money to vets.
  • bagelmaster, on 11/09/2009, -0/+9Pfft COD2 was so 2005
  • sanchezke70, on 11/10/2009, -1/+10@SingoEX

    About 5 of my friends have had a pirated version of the game for about 2 weeks now. On which system you ask? Xbox360.

    Retard.

    p.s- nice work using wiki for "facts"
  • Phi01, on 11/10/2009, -1/+9LOL
  • Heavenfall, on 11/10/2009, -1/+9Good on them, but I'm not buying their game.
  • dronkmunk, on 11/09/2009, -0/+8Kids seats are still just 12 bucks!!!
  • Rikushix, on 11/10/2009, -1/+9I will digg both of you up for general agreement. DRINKS ALL AROUND
  • eadnams, on 11/09/2009, -13/+21beats diggable ads. Great game too.
  • ParticleMan420, on 11/10/2009, -1/+8i'm sure it's going to help a TON to stop piracy.
  • 3nder99, on 11/09/2009, -1/+8I'll just donate more money to the Fischer House vet charity. No need to give Activision the other $59 from my purchase, since MW2 is gutted on PC.
  • Dinner, on 11/10/2009, -0/+6All the german shepherds whose necks were cruelly broken in the first Modern Warfare had to go somewhere.
  • Polycarp87, on 11/09/2009, -4/+10Classy move. Good on them.

    Don't know if this was a "PR move" or not, and I guess I don't care because whether someone does something nice out of the goodness of their heart or out of a desire to get attention, they still did something nice.
  • flamesrule, on 11/10/2009, -0/+6how do you know?
  • bonjourmr, on 11/09/2009, -1/+6Chicks dig scars though...pitty there aren't any on Digg. They should have put a barely clad female character in the ad, I don't think there would be many complaints.
  • Mazrin, on 11/10/2009, -2/+7This makes no sense. Boycott digg, not dragon age, if you want to boycott the offending party.
  • nuketrap, on 11/10/2009, -1/+6As nice as it is for them to do that, it is not distracting me for how bad the PC version of COD:MW2 is, but kudos for their generosity...
  • tgc1, on 11/10/2009, -1/+6ZOMG i'm totally going to buy it.

    /s
  • LonesomeFighter, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4if it wasn't a PR move they would have done a silent donation and not let word out ahead of time what they were going to do. Either way though, it is very nice of them to care and help.
  • hawarkarem, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4:/ awkwaaard
  • virtorio, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4In stores now.
    Rated M,

    ...apparently.
  • bubbameister33, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4It's an ad disguised as a background image.
  • thecoinman, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4nice...i lolled :P
  • 3nder99, on 11/10/2009, -2/+6@shingoex

    402 also said PC multiplayer was the same as it always was.

    In other words he is full of *****.

    60% pirated? Really? 2% of the servers that run COD4 are cracked, the rest of them require a valid cd key.

    I'll even go so far as to say singleplayer was 10 times more pirated than multiplayer cod4, even though sp sucked and the game was a multiplayer phenomenon. Still only 20%, and thats *****.
  • Fygee, on 11/10/2009, -1/+5Help the Vets, but ***** their own developers and employees, and the PC gaming crowd.

    Oh Activision, why can't you make things good for everyone?
  • Atmandk, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4no.
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