These "incidents"...

[chaopolis]

These "incidents" of the broken guitar strum, broken foot pedal, etc, etc don't seem to be isolated events.

The only common factor is that they eventually break. Some after 2 hours... mine broke after 3 days...

However, I am surprised that we haven't heard a peep from Harmonix about this. Admittedly, they are probably on a long-needed vacation.

Hopefully, over the next week, we'll hear from Sean or someone who's NOT a "canned answer" PR rep with some answer (or, at least acknowledgement) about these incidents.

My drum foot pedal hasn't broken yet, but I'm seriously concerned that it will just because it's happening to so many other people.

I shouldn't have to play a game with a mindset of "I better be super super careful cause my stuff may break."

I never had that feeling during Guitar Hero or DDR or any other games of the like.

Please, Harmonix... we'd like to hear from you... not EA...

Discuss...

[k_luva]

Yup.....it is gone WAY beyond isolated incidents...this is a WIDESPREAD problem they have. I really don't expect HMX to respond to ANY of this until sometime this week...with Black Friday they weren't going to say a word about it.

[ReplicantSeven]

This is way beyond an "incident".

The words I'd use to describe this would include things like "fiasco" and "shenanigans".

EA has been caught with their hand in the cookie jar. OUR cookie jar.

Nobody is saying anything about it, because someone there realized what a giant screw up it is, and they probably have their wolf pack of lawyers discussing the proper terminology of their statement.

Sadly, the people who will probably *read* the announcement, and who post them here, will be the people who suffer the slings and arrows of our rightful anger. The people who are actually at fault, like the corporate goon who decided to farm out two separate (and equally poor) half-baked guitar designs to the cheapest possible bidding Chinese factory (can you say sweat shop?) to save a few cents per guitar will probably be heralded by EA and given a plaque as employee of the month.

Business as usual, people. Carry on.