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You keep comparing the price of GH:Aero to a regular game "with only 41 songs", but what you fail to realize is that the "Rock Band Track Pack: Vol. 1" costs $30, for only 20 songs. Do the math. 2 track packs (whenever a 2nd one comes out), would equal $60 for 40 songs, when Aerosmith costs $50 for 41, and $60 for 41 on HD consoles. So, expansions can cost the same as (or in this case, MORE THAN) sequels, but not spinoffs? It doesn't make since to me...

The spin-offs are more like expansion in my point. Although they are the same price as a normal game, they are still better priced than Harmonix's "Rock Band Track Pack: Vol. 1" (expansion) per song, and they're online DLC. I can kind of see how they "couldn't" do DLC, but this whole time, Acti/Never/Vicar were "working with Nintendo" to try to get it in AFTER the launch of the game, while Harmonix didn't even tryed, and 6 months later (around the time when Acti announced that GH:WT Wii would have DLC, they just released the game with a bunch of excuses, along with the no-reason lack of BWT mode, or custom characters and the fact that the game had PS2 graphics

And with the Wii's whole DLC problem, I think they realized that instead of trying to get DLC in, they could play it safe make the same amount of money off of the $30 track packs with 20 songs in it slowly throughout time. Which, while being $0.30 cheaper per song than weekly track packs, would not have to pay anything to Ninty, like they do to M$/Sony and would be able to reap moreprofits, along with the fact that people without broadband being able to buy them, which would make up for the $0.30 per song lost and the price of the CD's being made. So, no, I don't think that they really will lose much money, but will simply get it at a slower pace according to what pace they release the packs at.




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We all no that the GH spin offs shouldve been expansion packs or in some form DLC but its not and well too bad. Companies do this all the time we just have to deal with it.

All you saying that theyre milking GH just wait RB will also be gettign bullshit like Aerosmith. First up for RB is the Fog machine



Valkyria00 said:
We all no that the GH spin offs shouldve been expansion packs or in some form DLC but its not and well too bad. Companies do this all the time we just have to deal with it.

All you saying that theyre milking GH just wait RB will also be gettign bullshit like Aerosmith. First up for RB is the Fog machine

 

The light show is kind of bogus.  Although I havent heard about it in a while.  They arent really marketing it.  As far as song selection goes, RB is amazing.  Every week they have more songs to download.  When RB 2 hits stores, they are offering up TWENTY FREE SONGS.  This is what Ive heard.  RB is superior and I cant wait to buy the sequel.



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Ive read a whole bunch of the songs they release on RB as DLC and they suck imo.
Im not excited over there set list or DLC



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Valkyria00 said:
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Ive read a whole bunch of the songs they release on RB as DLC and they suck imo.
Im not excited over there set list or DLC

 

Their.

If you can't find something you like out of the hundreds of DLC songs, then you don't like music.



windbane said:
Valkyria00 said:
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Ive read a whole bunch of the songs they release on RB as DLC and they suck imo.
Im not excited over there set list or DLC

 

Their.

If you can't find something you like out of the hundreds of DLC songs, then you don't like music.

 

Yep.  I am going to have 40 songs on my drive by the time RB2 comes out.  Plus I will probably cache some of the ones from RB1 on the hard drive for play on RB2.



Rockband looks a better game. The drum kit is far better than WT's drum kit. Also I thought GH 3 was crap compared to 2. The boss battles were just annoying and the track list had to much mainstream sh*t.

Harmonix did a better job and RB2 looks far superior to me.



You people are a joke. How many of you even own both Rock Band and Guitar Hero 3? Rock Band is 1000x better in every way.



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sinha said:
You people are a joke. How many of you even own both Rock Band and Guitar Hero 3? Rock Band is 1000x better in every way.

 

I own both, and you are right.