Former Harmonix shareholders are looking to split a pot of $209 million courtesy of current owner
MTV Games' parent company Viacom. A
recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission states that because "financial results exceed specific contractual targets" that the former shareholders may receive a nice payday in the near future.
Rock Band may not be at
Guitar Hero's
level of sales yet, but its ninja operation of
consistent DLC has
paid off heavily (not only in sales, but in keeping gamer mindshare). Even at its
initial high retail price,
Rock Band has
marched to a steady drumbeat and displayed staying power.
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Next you're going to tell me that Ubisoft should stop releasing their 'Imagine' and 'Petz: z' games.
If you can get rich by selling shit...I don't see why not.
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Far too many brilliant and creative game projects have been shitcanned because they weren't financially successful.
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Croal's analysis overlooks the fact that Harmonix can still make other games too (such as Phase, which they have probably made a little money on). Though MTV may not break even with Rock Band itself, they have the best rhythm gaming division in the industry for less than it would have cost them to try to assemble one of their own.
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I really love this game, but it is sad that even the recent high quality mic that was released (not actually a harmonix product) broke on me (and others in the same damn way)
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-Viacom CEO who is coincidentally bald
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