Might be hard to say, but marketing stunt or not, $1million to a good cause is still $1million to a good cause. Good on Activision.

only 1 million?

@KrazyKraut can you donate $1 Million?

I'm just waiting for Xenon to say that 9/11 was staged and the Jews rule the world.

It's nice to see Activision is donating to charity. Doesn't help the fact that they hate video games.

A million dollars is a drop in the bucket for a company that size. I'm sure some of their execs spent more remodeling their bathtubs this year alone.

However, it's nice to hear some honesty for once about what 90% of the wars of the past 50 years have been about: protecting the so-called 'free market'. *laugh/barf*

Uhhhhh, This is seriously not fucking cool. Activision trivializes war, turns it into a commodity for profit, generates a billion dollars creating war simulators that may or may not inspire a generation of youth to take up arms - then creates a "Call of Duty" foundation with the loose change they made off map packs alone in a stunt to sell more copies of MW2 (great announcement timing Activision) all the while exploiting the life destroying efforts of brave soldiers & claiming they'll help them find work.

This is classic evil corporation. I bet they contemplated giving all vets a free copy of MW2, but decided this would be cheaper (& hey, no point glorifying war to those who already were conned into it). Any move that benefits soldiers gets a blind thumbs up from the masses, activision knows this & spends not even 1% of their advertising budget to secure even more copies of War Simulator 6 in the homes of every potential soldier & their brothers.

It would not shock me to learn that Activision's parent company create the very arms & tanks etc to fight said wars. We are living in truly despicable times.

@xenon cannot support retired veterans. Seriously grow the fuck up.

But in saying that, its not enough. Should be at least 5 mil.

Kotick: "How do you expect people to actually join the military if when they leave the military they can't integrate back into the free market they're supposed to be protecting?"

Okay, that tears it. This is a good cause to donate to, but I used to work for Activision. I saw people treated like shit, especially QA Testers, who were laid off by this company. They couldn't find jobs anywhere else. And their choice was sometimes to join the military services. So maybe some of this $1 million dollars will go to them. And that is sizable money. On the other hand, how much did it cost for that same company to make Call of Duty Hummers to give out as prizes? Or to organize media events with celebrities and DJs? This is a company that wants your money, first and foremost, so they can do humanitarian efforts... but if its going to be on this scale, and, for god's sake, called the Call of Duty Endowment (aka: have the TITLE OF THE FRANCHISE IN THE CHARITY), then that, like almost all actions they've taken in recent memory, reeks of hypocrisy. It will draw attention to the charity, but also the charity will draw attention to the game, at least that is what I see when I put 2 and 2 together. That is why I sold my old CoD games yesterday, and Activision games, and am donating all of that money to this charity. Goodbye Activision, enjoy your money and success, but don't try to put a gloss on your already inhumane actions.

...lets see if veterans actually see the money in action. Myself included.

Wait, aren't there already charities that do the exact thing? Why create a new one, instead of donating all $1 million to one of those?

Also, that's probably the first thing Kotick has said that I can agree with.

@Dr Terror:
I'm pretty sure real soldiers don't regenerate health. I'm also pretty sure soldiers don't use guns shaped even remotely like controllers. "War simulator" is not even close to accurate.

@xenon:
Wow. Just wow. That's one of the most offensive things I've ever heard.

@Xenon - did it ever occur to you that many of the soldiers are fighting because, especially in this economy, they can't afford college and the government puts up all these fake incentives to join? Its happened to quite a few of my friends, and what you said is about the most offensive thing I've ever heard. It's safe to say the vast majority of people here are opposed to the war in Iraq, but you dont take it out on the individual soldier who is putting his life on the line.

Bottom line is: GO FUCK YOURSELF

Well, good for Activision. Real nice of them. Guitar Hero still sucks, though.

@Arkhon If that's one of the most offensive things you've ever read then you need to get out from under your fucking rock and look around. Toolbag.

Uh wtf, instead of donating to the many already established charities that do this they make there own and call it the "CALL OF DUTY CHARITY" nobody should be congratulating them, this is just another marketing scheme to get sales.