Rumor: Rock Band may never come to Australia

You know what HMX? Fuck you, Guitar Hero 4 just won millions of customer.And I don't see them ever buying RB games again after what you did.

I would be pissed if they release RB1 after (or right before) RB2. It just seems like this is how the whole thing went.
"Did you clear Rock Band for Australia, we are trying to get it there same day as NA"
"No, I'm busy now... I'll do it tomorrow"
-1 year later-
"Did you clear Rock Band for Australia yet?"
"STOP PESTERING ME, GOD... I'LL DO IT WHEN I FEEL LIKE IT"

Now, who will really buy a year old Rock Band when the new GH4 is coming out so soon.

Now that's no way to treat the country that gave us AC/DC.

I dont know what this company thinks it's doing. Bunch of idiots it seems.
They only half released Rock Band here in the UK. I'm still waiting for the PS3 version!

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Rock Band still isn't completely released for the UK. Wii hasn't seen anything and neither has some other consoles. At least GH is actually out here which makes the choice so much easier.

Aren't these the same retailers who threatened to delist the Xbox 360 out of fanboyism or something?

Now, see, stuff like this is why I don't walk into retail stores anymore around here. Australian retail sucks.

Didn't you guys post this article a week ago?

Dude, guys. I'm just gonna break the ice. Nobody really likes GH or RB. You can all stop pretending to like it to be cool. If you like the games, just buy the CDs and be done with it.

a regular game in Australia is like $100 dollars or so (ridonkulous), so a full RB kit would be almost $250-$300 or so.

Sucks.
EA doesn't ship it for so long..And then of course we'll reject an old game. On top of that we'd be paying more than anyone else in the world for it.

I hate EA more than the retailers. Shoulda taken their thumb out sooner to infiltrate a country that buys so much of these party style games.

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I work at a games retailer in Australia, and we just got details as to Rock Band. It IS coming. It's also rather expensive.

How our stocking will work, i don't know. It may work out like Wii Fit is currently, but it IS coming.

That said, i really dont like the way EA are playing this. I wish they'd grow some balls, apologize and release RB2 with free RB1 track pack(s?) for us Aussies.

Poor Yahtzee.

Looks like we'll never see the Rock Band Zero Punctuation.

Unless Yahtzee decides to use GAMETRADERS ROBINA.

I managed to pick up the rock band bundle for PS3 in the states. AU$174 for the game, guitar, microphone and drums.

If you import the game and require shipping, its closer to AU$300. Add a rock band 2 game only purchase, and it starts to be worth it.

The game is awesome, and is better than guitar hero 2 and 3. World tour may be a different story though.

I envy you, Austrailians.

Thank god the PS 3 is region and that my friend imported it a few months ago.

Ah, good old EA.. the very same guys that released a Medal Of Honour Wii game here in Australia, but REMOVED the multi-player component especially for us Aussies! Amongst plenty of other things.

I'm a retailer/renter of games, and I have no intention of stocking Rock Band. Cut me/us some slack guys... should we continue to take this crap from EA, or do we put our foot down at some stage and say enough is enough already. So many people that actually want it have already imported it, so we're wasting our money to put something on the shelves that is a year old and probably won't sell that well.

I hope EA lose a stack of cash, and Rock Band crashes and burns in AU. It'll teach them to treat us like poo. I also hope that you, as Aussie consumers, back the retailers in sending EA a message from down-under.

Here's a big middle-finger from one Aussie gamer/retailer to EA. Man I'm so glad they didn't get there rotten mitts on GTA!

I got tired of waiting so I just imported Rock Band for the 360. I got the game from the UK and the drums from America. I didn't the guitars because I have 2 perfectly good Guitar Hero guitars. Which lead to my purchases WITH shipping being far less than what the cost of the game and drums would be when it comes out here and thanks to an American Microsoft Points selling site I've got points at much cheaper than they cost here to buy all the DLC I want. Now all I have to do is wait for RB2 to be released the UK so I can import that as well.

it seems it may be coming in October according to EB games. According to their website instruments will be available then.

http://www.ebgames.com.au/productSearch.cfm?category=8&platform=xbox&clear=

I've had RB pre-ordered since very early this year and I'm extremely disappointed that it hasn't been released yet. They really need to just release RB2 and give us some kind of free very large song pack as compensation for being completely dicked around for what will be nearly a year once/if it comes out.

I'm quite sure they will release it here. Better late than never right?

Anyway, I have a song request for Aussie disc content, it goes a little something like this;

"The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you see one more card
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The waiting is the hardest part"

(the game needs more Tom Petty anyway...)

I'm from NZ, and I hear it's like $300 for the instrument bundle, then $100 for the game.

Woah.

i would feel bad for Australia, once again, but the girls there are just too dam hot. So sorry Australia, you do not have my sympathy, but you do have gorgeous girls :D

OK. This officially sucks. Granted it does not affect me specifically (you can probably guess where I live) but I still have to say that regardless of whose fault it is, the root cause is a large beam of wood jammed firmly up someone's rear end. (Which, not coincidentally, may also be the solution.)

Seriously, this is the freaking twenty-first century. We keep talking about the whole global community, the global economy, breaking down borders and all that. And bringing a (non-handheld) game from one country to another is STILL some Herculean effort requiring incantations from one or more Great Old Ones and possibly also a virgin sacrifice. I can see a delay of maybe a few months for music licensing issues (because let's face it, the only folks in greater need of a rectal stickectomy than the games industry is the music industry) but a YEAR? This isn't just shameful, it's downright disrespectful.

It's especially frustrating for me because I do have friends in Europe, and I really wanted to play Smash Bros. Brawl against them. By the time they got it, I was already moved on to a different game. This sort of thing gets infuriating quickly, and I can certainly sympathize with the Aussies.

tl;dr: Region encoding sucks, and lazy localizers can burn in hell.