Harmonix donates $2000 to Guitar Hero fansite Score Hero

by Ross Miller { May 28th 2007 at 7:41PM }

Guitar Hero fan site Score Hero can keep on "graciously documenting our future arthritis," thanks in no small part to developer Harmonix, who donated $2,000 to the website's $10,000 goal to upgrade their servers.

"Hey everyone, I just kicked in a big donation on behalf of the whole crew here at Harmonix. You guys are awesome!" posted Harmonix president Alex Rigopulos on the site's forums.

Comments made by site admin JCirri suggest the site's community is around 30,000 in size. According to the donation drive bar graph, the goal has been "met and exceeded." Visitors to the site may find the main page a bit slow loading, but don't worry -- the servers should be upgraded soon. Major kudos to Harmonix and the Score Hero community!

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Beni Nkangoh @ May 28th 2007 9:25PM

Thats nice of Harmonix.

BPM @ May 28th 2007 9:33PM

Yeah, real cool of them to support the fanbase like that.

Just goes to show all evil corporations aren't completely evil...

... Or maybe they just like publicity stunts... [shrugs]

Rubang B @ May 28th 2007 10:11PM

Not as cool as Blizzard, but still really really cool.

Markusdragon @ May 29th 2007 12:13AM

However, having now been mentioned on Joystiq, and doubtlessly several other blogs, they'll have to upgrade their servers again :P

ledorky @ May 29th 2007 2:00AM

The thing to note here is, the DEVELOPERS are the ones that put up the money. Not Red Octane. Not Activision. And the dev is least likely the one that get the lion's share of the profits.

Arno @ May 29th 2007 8:13AM

@5, good point.

AndrewNeo @ May 29th 2007 10:37AM

That's pretty cool, and is really nice of them, as ledorky said the developers probably don't get a very big cut of the cash (though considering the game they're probably still getting a good amount)
Reminds me of how the Brothers Chaps (of Homestar Runner) donate to the Homestar Runner Wiki during drives because even they use it as a resource.