Sorry, Europe: New Rock Band prices only apply to old instruments

What makes you think pricing is up to the developers?

Thats what happens when you have fun with a stranger in the alps.

When you turn around and cut off their dick.

But their dick is so good...

(analogy is getting disturbing)

To decode the metaphor would you enjoying their dick mean that you actually like paying more for stuff because it gives your region a sense of cultural distinctiveness and togetherness?

It means that their game is too damn good to pass on :(

Did you never play with a Guitar Hero guitar? They have almost no resistance in the middle, you ram the flipper into the stop on each end.

Both GHWT guitars I've tried broke the strum bar after less than an hour of play.

Although my RB guitar now has a broken tilt function and whammy bar.

I actually bought a RB2 fender stratocaster, I've been forcing myself to use it instead of reverting back to my somewhat buggy GH3 les paul (the green and red buttons sometimes glitch out on me). Even with the glitches I'm still better on the les paul, my problem with the RB2 guitar is that the fret buttons seem harder to press, so quick hammeron/pulloff sequences mess me up. I do like the strum bar better on the RB2 guitar though.

To fix your Les Paul if your frets don't respond look into

http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53749

or if you get random strums just from fretting

http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62821

The first one is bit of work and you can't detach the neck any more but a 100% working guitar is worth it.

I never got around to getting a guitar hero, then I liked the look of the 2nd set of fretting buttons, and At The Gates as DLC.. I did think I had an RB2 guitar as it was wireless...

has apple EVER released something affordable?

I was referring to the fact Apple uses EVER in their ads.

The fastest Mac ever.
The greenest Mac ever.
The funnest iPod ever.

And yet weirdly a lot of people seem to have it.

I'm pretty sure there's only like 3 people in Britain who read Joystiq, so how come a significant number of people know about, want, or have it?

I'm not saying nobody bought it, but all of my points still stand. I work for a big video game retailer, you know how many copies of Rock Band 2 we got in when it was released? About five. And we haven't had any more since then. And that's the disc only. No advertising, no instruments, nothing.

When Rock Band 1 came out, sure, some people bought it, but we had loads of the instrument bundles sitting in the stock room for ages.

And if you're talking about people knowing about it, it's only really people like you and me, game savvy customers who read gaming blogs/websites/magazines, etc. Other people who come in looking for a band game, the more casual crowd, always go for Guitar Hero, because it's a recognised brand and it's been advertised to death since before Christmas. I haven't ever seen one single Rock Band ad on TV.

I'm not saying I want Rock Band to fail, I have it myself and much prefer it to Guitar Hero, but my point still stands. After having released Rock Band three times in the UK (once for the original on 360, once for the original on the other systems months later and then for RB2 on 360) they haven't ever really managed to do it "successfully". Maybe this will change things but I'm not holding my breath.

Don't worry, I am a European and I don't understand either.

wireless drums just mean one less cord for a drunk guy to trip over at a party.

And a small mountain of empty batteries.

"I suppose the environment can take one more for the team"