Apparently some of you are not sufficiently outraged at paying $6.25 for three new Guitar Hero II songs. Activision announced today that 2 million individual tracks have been downloaded via over 650,000 downloadable Xbox Live packs. The number includes 50,000 downloads for the recent My Chemical Romance pack in its first week of availability and 300,000 sales for the three original Guitar Hero packs through early July.Activision also used the opportunity to talk up the impending release of Guitar Hero 3 and its "vast array of downloadable content including songs from some of the most popular European bands." Do we smell an ABBA song pack in the works? We can only hope and pray.
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I prefer a lot better the 80's Edition and the first one.
As a guitar player, I can tell you: Chemical Romance doesnt apport nothing, musically speaking. Neither Nirvana.
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I suggest Cubicles or Skylines and Turnstiles(their first song, written about September 11, ironic hmmm...)
I won't even touch Nirvana, because everyone that lived in the 90's disagrees with you...(although I'm not a huge fan myself) You don't have to like them, but you should respect them. (Same with games!)
Yet you diss Nirvana?
Oh come on, for crying out loud, you shouldn't even call yourself a musician. You may not like Nirvana, that's your opinion, but Nirvana being a great band is a fact.
No. Don't argue. As a musician you have to be able to discern quality from personal taste.
See it this way: I like The Used, yet musically speaking, they are a shitty band.
No offense meant (:
Come on Fernando! LOL
Try listening other bands, even bands that are not americans or english, like rata Blanca or Mago de Oz. Check ths video of Mago de Oz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amHsAm1TXFk
Please. Music is not only about playing guitar.
And before you question my musicals skills, I'm not a musical genious, and I'm not even that good at what I play (guitar, electirc guitar, bass guitar), I just try to learn about stuff so I don't say stupid things.
And GH create's it's own solo for songs that doesn't have them.
Ever listened to Ziggy Stardust before the first GH?
Had the grunge movement not stopped the onslaught of hair bands... I don't even want to think about it.
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I surely did my part to boycott the outrageous pricing on these song packs, but some apparently I'm almost the only one out there who feels insulted about being ripped off.
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I wonder if any of the execs ever thought about how much they could have made if they had chosen a distribution platform that didn't involve bending their users over, and firmly inserting the DLC without lubrication.
Count me a user that would happily spend $50 - $75 a year on quality, reasonably priced DLC, but who has spent zero dollars on GH2 DLC because of the way that Activision has gone about this.
Thank God for competition. I strongly suspect that Harmonix will show everyone how to do this, and make significant amounts of money in the process.
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I second every word you said. Here's to hoping that Harmonix continues to respect their user-base.
Harmonix > Activision
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only about playing guitar.And before you question my musicals skills,
I'm not a musical genious, and I'm not even that good at what I play
(guitar, electirc guitar, bass guitar), I just try to learn about
stuff so I don't say stupid things.
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I did buy the pack with Bark at the Moon and Ace of Spades and I like it, but I would have bought loads more if it had have been cheaper and more choice.
They could had quadrupled their sales but they fucked right up. There is nothing for Activision to feel proud about here.
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Activision KNOWS they could have sold over 3x that amount had they priced the packs more reasonable. Say $4.25 instead of $6.25. THey would have made MORE money AND, more importantly, kept a better repoire with the 85% of players that "voted with their wallets" that were pissed and insulted by the prices.
If Rock Band takes this into account and has a more reasonable pricing plan for their DLC, it will give one more reason for gamers to give their money to EA instead of Activision.
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But you know what? I don't care what music singles cost. The fact remains that with the exception of the MCR tracks, all those tracks were rehashed GHI tracks. Worst case scenario, all those tracks shouldn't cost more than $80. And I'm being generous seeing as how it originally came with a guitar controller.
Someone suggested boycotting the game- the problem with that is we like the game, a lot. We just hate that they are ripping us off.
Angry letters must be written!
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