According to the official Guitar Hero II forums, Red Octane, tired of people weeping, and wringing their hands with grief over the spotty performance of their shiny, new whammy bars, has released a patch for Guitar Hero II via Xbox LIVE that should alleviate the issue.
The humor only begins there, though, as reading the thread where they announced the patch reveals that 90% of all replies were from people who installed the patch and subsequently had their 360s (metaphorically) catch fire, run around the room screaming, and collapse in utter agony. The symptoms seem pretty similar in all cases, with people having downloaded the patch and experiencing frequent lock-ups soon after. Compounding that thread o' bad news, is this thread over on the official Xbox forum filled to bursting with people whose 360s seem to have murdered themselves upon contact with the patch.
Thankfully, I lucked out and my whammy bar works like a German clock, but now I'm terrified to download this patch until Red Octane hires a QA department that isn't paid in cocaine and barbiturates. If any of you guys have borked your systems with this patch, hit up the comments. The general consensus is that you're going to have to RMA the system back to Microsoft, so it isn't like you have anything better to do, right?
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2:23 AM on 04.15.2007
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actually cocaine and barbie's only make you think they cancel eachother out, in reality around two am your heart go BOOM
That cartoon btw makes me lol as I think that all the time.
I think i'll wait and see how this issue will be resolved before i fire up GHII again
And on topic: My whammy bar responded maybe 30% of the time before the patch and now it responds 100% of the time. My 360 didn't break either.
For some reason, I think that son of a bitch BioShock is going to do my 360 in.
I almost went out and got GH2 for the 360 just for the download content, but decided to pass on it and just hook up my old PS2 again. After reading about the whammy bar problems and the current download selection (and price), I'm glad I went the cheap & easy route.
I wrote them a letter when my second guitar went defective and asked if they tested anything, along with what to do about my guitar. They told me to return my guitar to where I bought it and didn't tell me about their in-depth testing procedures.
Suprisingly, GH1 worked fine for me, and I was pleased.
This time, I don't know if it's RO showing their true colors again or if it's just shitty testing on Activision's/RO's part, but I'll be goddamned if I'm going to put GH2 in again until I hear about a VERIFIED working second patch. I'm too leery of RO to bother using my console as a guinea pig for their piss poor QA testing.
My $90 = (flush)
with the new Halo 2 maps coming out, i feel like Red Octane has bent me over the barrel.
hard.
please, god, where did the good ol' days of systems and games that worked go? please bring them back. thanks.
Well if it makes you feel better it used to be a pain when PC games shipped with bugs and you had to contact customer support to have them send you a disk with the patch because there were no internets. I don't really think its the developers getting lazy so much as the publishers getting pushy and skimping on QA since they can just patch it. Its cheaper than doing a recall and until gamers decide to drop a few class-action suits nothing will change.
MORE bad news for the 360... If only Sony would do something positive now we could have a real console war.
Oh, and I had that problem with Firefox earlier but now it's working fine.
I wasn't blaming Microsoft, but it's still bad press. Of course since no "real" people seem to be having problem this seems to be exaggerated. Conspiracy?
As I’ve said before, the whammy on my guitar from the original [i]Guitar Hero [/]might sink on its own, but at least it’s recognized by the game. PS2 FTW!
Im feel for you with the limited warranty you get in the US. Thankfully Microsoft has at least started to offer better warranty. Not perfect, but better.
I've had my 360 for over a year. My power supply was bad, but mine was replaced completely free, even shipping was paid for.
For those who've had to ship their 360's for repair/replacement, especially those who've done it multiple times, you've got every right to be pissed, but I'd really like to see the total number of 360's that have had to be repaired/replaced, and the total number of people who've had to repeatedly.
the game froze, i reset then it froze at the syart up screen, so i restarted again, screen went black and i got the 3 red lights of death, i called x-box they want me to send it in with 150 bucks of my money cuse its not under warranty anymore, after spending $90 on the game, i tryed to get ahold of red octane with no avail. this shit is gettin serious i now have a $400 paperweight sittin on my floor,
there has to be someone we can call since x-box denies the problem altogether.