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Heres the skinny.

So I wasn't sure who had heard/posted about this, so I thought I'd throw it up on the ol' c-blog.

Now for those of you to lazy to click, basically Activision has come out and said they want Harmonix to pay them in order to release the compatibility patch for Rock Band.

Now at first you might say, "well that seems reasonable, they only want money for their hard earned work, right?" Well I'd have to disagree with you....

Because you're wrong.

First of all, I think its unfair of Activision to ask Harmonix for money to mod their own friggin game. Yes its true that the controller's themselves are made by Activision and they deserve to be paid for their work. But think about this logically. We'll still have to buy the controllers, and in the end Activision will get money no matter what. It seems to me like the only reason they want this deal is to make even more money. Which brings me to my next point...

By doing this Activision is basically dicking around a group of their own loyal consumers. Think about it, who do you know that owns Rock Band, but not guitar hero 3?

So I say to you Activision, stop being a bunch of douches.



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Actually, I know a few people that own Rock Band but do not own Guitar Hero 3.

Not everyone wants to play Guitar.

But they should just play nice and let them have the patch.
I do not own GH3, but own Rock Band. I only rented GH3.
I completely agree with your sentiments.
Activision wants to stop Rock Band from becoming popular in any way they can.
But it's too late and people are starting to find out Rock Band in the same that they found out about GH.
Hey, can't blame Activision. Money talks.
I did not own GH3 but own Rock Band. I had only played GH2 on friends PS2's.
I completely agree with your sentiments.
Also because I own an Xbox360 and this news came out after my purchase I bought GH3 for the sole purpose of having an additional guitar for my Rock Band setup. If I had known Activision were being such assholes to Harmonix and there PS3 customers I would have just waited for Harmoix to release their own add on guitars.

<Fanboy>Honestly my 74 tracks in Rock Band and more every week I don't think I'll ever even play GH3</Fanboy>
Its because they had an ugly breakup and now they are being spiteful for the sake of, well, being spiteful
King gets it. Activision is the position of power here, and there's really nothing we can do. Sure, Dtoiders and other hardcore gamers can boycott them, but how bout the other 2 million people who just want to play guitar?

Nothing anyone can do. Activision sucks.
*Sigh* This is such bullshit. I still can’t believe that Activision doesn’t see that they will be compensated in the form of thousands of extra copies of Guitar Hero III being sold for the PS3! I don’t understand why Activision is completely shutting out an entire platform — the Les Paul controller works with Rock Band on the 360, but not on the PS3. Fuck you, Activision. I bought your game, but I haven’t had the urge to play it since I picked up Rock Band.

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