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Post by Steve Farrelly @ 12:48pm 07/11/08 | 7 Comments
According to a report over at Kotaku, Activision Blizzard may be looking at creating a subscription service for their GuitR Hero Tunes service, the platform by which Guitar Hero World Tour users can upload their personally generated songs for other users to listen to and download.

"The ability to offer these songs on a subscription basis may very well result in the newest subscription opportunity in our portfolio," said CEO, Bobby Kotick.

Whether or not this subscription service could eventually include an iTunes-esque artist download page for new tracks (as opposed to the current "track pack" DLC model) remains to be
seen, but would make sense, allowing users to choose their own content.

Guitar Hero World Tour is due to hit Australian store shelves in just under two weeks, while EA's long overdue Rock Band finally hit Aussie shores this week. Stay tuned to AusGamers for a full review of Guitar Hero World Tour closer to the game's release.












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Alt_F4
Posted 12:56pm 07/11/08
Does anyone know how much rock band is retailing for?
Khel
Posted 12:58pm 07/11/08
$229 from JB for the game and all the instruments on 360. Not sure of the PS3 price, I think its a bit more.
DM
Posted 01:09pm 07/11/08
Really Khel? I was told $190 from robina. I know I swore I wouldn't pick it up but I cant help it for that price, i'll forgive them for being this late. Picking it up in a few hours. From the sounds of things, GHWT song creator is extremely hard to use, and makes songs not much better than a midi ring tone, so hardly worth the subscription price if one comes in. OH and they don't allow any covers or remakes of already existing songs, so chances are you'll be stuck with 1000's of shitty ones.

I'm picking RB over GHWT because I heard the drum kit and guitars have a really high failure rate and often come out of the box busted or on the verge of being broken so after a few hours they die. RBs had a whole year to counter this so i'll be willing to bet they will be better quality. I'll still buy GHWT but only the game because it automaticly recognizes the RB drum set and changes to 4 notes. Then all i'll have to do is import RB2 when it hits the UK

last edited by DM at 13:09:32 07/Nov/08
3dee
Posted 01:07pm 07/11/08
Hmmm. Rock Band for XBOX of Rock Band in real life... Woot rock band in real life!

Oh btw, we scored a gig at The Zoo on 19th December. Should be sweeet
Khel
Posted 01:37pm 07/11/08
Really Khel? I was told $190 from robina


$190 is just the instrument pack, $229 with the game as well. For some bizarre reason they're sold separately here, but JB still does a bundled price. EB on the other hand will hit you up $250 for the peripherals and another $100 for the game.
Dan
Posted 01:38pm 07/11/08
I'm picking RB over GHWT because I heard the drum kit and guitars have a really high failure rate and often come out of the box busted or on the verge of being broken so after a few hours they die.
I've heard some bad mentions of the aus Rock Band kits tho, so dunno. Doesn't seem like you can really pass judegement based on that.

I think this time around GHWT has the superior guitar so maybe that's worth considering. If I was buying both, I'd probably go with the GHWT bundle for the better instruments and pick up just the rock band disc.

If I had to choose just one, at this stage it would be have to be Rock Band, simply because I think what they've done so far in terms of downloadable content completely blows GH away and that Metallica album in Guitar Hero was over 1GB, for 12 songs. Rock Band tracks are far more reasonable in size. With NXE coming out and HDD game installs, I can't spare that kind of space for DLC anymore.

The fact that you can play RB1 songs in RB2 is a big winner too. At least it will be when a PAL version eventually gets released.
VRBones
Posted 03:46pm 07/11/08
So, with LBP and Spore and TF2 and everyotherfkngameontheplanet having user generated content available for free to extend the game, why would I want to pay money to activision for someone else's work? If I make a song, do I get a cut?

Suddenly the biggest feature separating these two games is looking like a dildo.

I hope that this is just a replacement model for the activision-released titles, or activion approved titles with a revenue stream back to the creator.
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