Finally some Latin music that isn't crazy old (seriously, most hispanophones I know have never even heard of platero y tú, though fito y fitipaldis is gigantic) and from probably the second biggest...

Which leaves us with the "Iron Maiden are douches" explanation.

ThunderCurtis: The whole song is ironic, it's hilarious, discussing it hasn't been for a good decade now

Fine, I'll go to sleep and come tomorrow this will have dropped off the front page or will have so many posts it'll be pointless trying to jump back in. All the while we can sit there happy in the...

As I say, it doesn't matter if they did donate to cover the costs, it will always be so much money that MSF is never going to see.

As I've explained, I don't have tens of thousands of dollars to donate to MSF. As you say, most people don't know they exist so they never would donate. This is a very easy way to get people who...

No matter how much anybody donates, the exclusivity will always be tens of thousands of dollars not going to a worthy cause. If they care at all they'd donate the money and break out of the...

opposite of greed on who's part? It means more money for MS and if MS paid off HMX then more money for HMX.

that would suggest the possibility that only the EP version has proceeds going to charity meaning thousands of dollars of wasted potential donation

whereas free DLC, that just makes sound economic sense comparatively

That makes no sense though being that PS3 and I'm assuming wii also have free DLC. It's not as if they'd be making money off of that so why would this be a problem? I'm still thinking the only reason...

ps3 being more expensive would suggest its owners have more disposable income and can spend more on DLC (that and they can use what they would be paying for gold accounts on charity DLC)

Denying easy money to an extremely worthy charity



Either you don't understand the nature of charity or Medecins Sans Frontieres or you are just a horrible human being



See, this still...

and where will we get tens of thousands of other people's $2 from to donate? This isn't a matter of principles, this is a matter of getting medical care to people dying in war torn areas

As I've mentioned, it's entirely possible that this was the lesser of 2 evils. If you only sell the charity DLC on PS3 and wii your audience is far smaller than if you only sell it on 360, so if MS...

I really cannot stress this enough. **** what console you're on, for the sake of people whose lives could be saved, get rid of the damned exclusivity.

We'd known about the 45 songs for months though. All we've learnt from this is some new songs, what the graphics look like, what the instruments look like and how many kids MS are willing to let die

It's also not like Bill Gates has anything to do with running MS. He, as a person, was the only good thing about the company

All I can do is throw hissy fits and spam the crap out of various fora. The issue is where to spam. One extra bit of DLC is not going to cost nintendo or sony anything (considering they're happy to...

Are you suggesting somebody was complaining about the proceeds going to charity?

Either way, clearly the charity issue is far more important here. Even if we were to pretend that only 100,000...

soon as I get the money for it I amy well be donating an XBox's worth of money to medecins sans frontieres. We'll have to see if anybody's forthcoming with a scapegoat before I decide what else to do...