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EA Giving $1 Million Or More To America's Vets

Electronic Arts has announced that it will donate at least $1 million to veterans' charities through sales of the upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter Zero Dark Thirty map pack. The move is being made in conjunction with the Zero Dark Thirty film (directed by Kathryn Bigelow who did The Hurt Locker), which is about the special forces mission to get Osama bin Laden.

EA says that it will give $1 for each map pack sold, with the donations split among the participating nonprofit organizations. 

The map pack contains two new multiplayer maps based on real-world locations: The Darra Gun Market in Pakistan and Chitral in northern Afghanistan.

Medal of Honor: Warfighter comes out for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 on October 23. Here's the latest trailer.

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  • I like it, even though I think EA is kinda greedy, I support them in this whole-heartedly. You will have my dollar veterans.
  • This is the best news I've heard all week. Way to go EA.

  • Good thing they are donating money to the Army troops, but when I read the article title I thought EA was actually giving $1 million with no strings attached. I probably should have known that there was a catch.
  • Kudos to EA on supporting the troops, though I wish they actually donated a million dollars straight up without having people download the map pack in order to make a million.
  • Glad to hear EA is actually giving rather than taking. The question remains, how many of you are actually going to pick this title up?
  • I'm not a Medal of Honor fan, but as a vet, I really appreciate what they're doing.
  • Yes... because everyone in the world is American... :/
  • People love to talk smack about big corporations, but they dish out more money for charity than anyone else.
  • so each vet gets like 75 cents?
  • well at least they are donating some sort of proceeds. Which is rare

  • I hate it when corporations put 'spin' on any charitable inclinations that they love to trot out. It is just publicity on the backs of your vets. If they truly cared for the vets, they'd have put the money up, no conditions attached. But they put the onus on YOU, dear gamers, to generate enough sales to support the vets. If they do not reach the million units sale for this crap piece of DLC, they will blame YOU, dear gamers, who were not patriotic in their duty to support the ailing vets and apparently hate America. In short, take that money that you'd have spent on the map pack, be it five or eight dollars, and contribute directly to charity to help your soldiers. Be patriotic AND smart at the same time.
  • Interesting.... EA.....

  • Bout time ea does something good.

  • UPDATE: This map pack will release on December 17th for $9.99.

    This is impressive, especially when you take into consideration that they also started Project Honor. For those who don't know, it's to raise awareness and generate charitable contributions for fallen warriors from the Special Operations Community, in honor of the sacrifices they and their families have made for their country.

    I still don't like some choices that EA have made concerning the gaming industry, but being a veteran myself, they're quickly earning a great deal of my respect. They've also earned my money for Medal of Honor: Warfighter. I'm looking forward to it.
  • Dat PR strategy
  • Honestly, if you want to help your vets, you should take those $15 or $10 and donate them directly to them. Great to see EA finally doing some good, though.

  • I think this is great as long as EA doesn't charge more to compensate for the donation. For 2 maps I would hope it's around $5 but no more than $10.

  • That's a lot of dough.

  • well im totally into the charity thing but this whole real world concept of killing osama or whatever moh's equivalent to that is seems just wrong. unless im being totally ignorant this game is not solely sold in the U.S. and Europe and yet they have 1)a "move" that is only for American vets 2)a game (dlc) that may potentially have very offensive content to people outside of the country or even within. not to say that he was a good person i didnt like him at all (imo) but having these two things tied together seems to be a bit of a catch. why would you use the veterans to allow the gaming community's approval of such a controversial and seemingly unnecessary dlc to murder a real life enemy. its still a bit too recent in most people's memory to think of doing such a thing, however there are probably alot of people who this really appeals to, more than likely the veterans. so i dont really know where to stand on this. what im really trying to say is that i would like to give to the veterans' charity without endorsing this idea.
  • I should of known the anti-EA crowd would have a field day with this. A company can't try and do something good, without somebody finding some kind of flaw, to flip out about. Give it a break already.

    I feel this is a noble act on their part. Horrible company or not.

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