Truck carrying RB bundles hijacked in Cali

[padreswin]

Crazy story from the LA Times:

One of this year's hottest video games got hotter last weekend, when highway bandits near the City of Industry hijacked a truck carrying more than 1,000 copies of "Rock Band" and the electronic musical instruments that accompany it, authorities said Wednesday.

Here's the full story: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-heist13dec13,1,3023759.story?coll=la-mininav-business&ctrack=1&cset=true

[capitalfn9]

holy crap, i need to find that truck and buy me some discounted rock band

[MrE]

holy crap, i need to find that truck and buy me some discounted rock band

just look for the guy on ebay doing Buy It Now for $99 w/1000 units available ;)

[capitalfn9]

haha if i didnt have rock band already that would be a good way to go

[o0MeTaL0o]

Each one of the game disks have a unique code that will be blacklisted from any online activities... The hardware though might be a different story, as they can sell those individually.

[muskett32]

HA! To whoever stole the bundles...Good luck getting all those faulty guitars replaced.

[Apples]

And I thought I loved Rock Band? Whoever did that has felony-level fanboyism. :D

[Conner Malvecino]

Man oh Man I know that some of you were too young for this...but when I was a kid, something EXACTLY like this happened when the Colecovision came out and they hijacked the entire semi too! I was one of those sad kids that didn't get their gamesystem that Christmas as the shipment was heading toward our local Electronics store.

...now I'm sad...but hey, it does seem that RB isn't as scarce as it was a week ago with Amazon.com having it in stock now.

[yellowcard929]

i hope they were for PS3... at least you can play as a full band..

[MrE]

i hope they were for PS3... at least you can play as a full band..

lol

It was probably the PS2 shipment...

[yellowcard929]

lol

It was probably the PS2 shipment...

lol... no it was prob the shipment for Canada... next threads to come?:

"Delayed in Canada again?"

[Dewgy]

Each one of the game disks have a unique code that will be blacklisted from any online activities... The hardware though might be a different story, as they can sell those individually.

I'm PRETTY sure software doesn't get serialed for consoles.

[Coldplayer]

At least they can be sure to find some working instruments in those 1000 copies.

[SSPWOLF]

I'm PRETTY sure software doesn't get serialed for consoles.


Every copy of Guitar Hero III had a unique user code to be entered into the GH III website.


Just throwing that out there.

[yellowcard929]

Every copy of Guitar Hero III had a unique user code to be entered into the GH III website.


Just throwing that out there.

This is rock band... and i never had to enter a code into the GH III website?!? i dont think i've ever even been on the GH website

[Alphadown99]

i hope they were for PS3... at least you can play as a full band..

It says in the story it was the 360 version:

"The Xbox 360 version of "Rock Band" that was stolen retails for $169, making the score worth more than $170,000."

[SSPWOLF]

This is rock band... and i never had to enter a code into the GH III website?!? i dont think i've ever even been on the GH website


Wonderful points you make.

Still doesn't change the fact that every copy of Guitar Hero 3 had a unique code you could enter into the GH3 website.

For the slow-to-grasp... all I'm saying is that yes, there are instances where software has been individually encoded, so yes, it's perfectly feasible that every Rock Band game disc is uniquely coded, so yes, it's also feasible that if someone used a "know-to-be-stolen" copy that they could be traced/blocked/etc.

[WiredRacing]

I don't think the unique code from GH3 is tied to the game disc. It's more than likely tied to your GamerTag.

[ixFatalDeathxi]

Once they catch him I guarantee he won't be playing Rock Band for a long time.;)

[ixFatalDeathxi]

They probaly have a tracker on that truck and im sure someone will notice some guy the never has a commercial truck ramdomly have one,

[HMXJohnlok]

lol... no it was prob the shipment for Canada... next threads to come?:

"Delayed in Canada again?"

I can see the headlines already:

"1000 Stolen Units Tips the Scales: Rock Band delayed in Canada until 2012."


NOTE: ROCK BAND IS NOT DELAYED UNTIL 2012!!!!!

[ixFatalDeathxi]

I can see the headlines already:

"1000 Stolen Units Tips the Scales: Rock Band delayed in Canada until 2012."


NOTE: ROCK BAND IS NOT DELAYED UNTIL 2012!!!!!

You ruined the joke LOL

[CrazyLittle]

Holy crap those activision guys don't know when to quit, huh.

[xboxmaster1466]

cough...Cough (http://cgi.ebay.com/Rock-Band-XBOX360-SPECIAL-EDITION-BUNDLE-BRAND-NEW_W0QQitemZ280183234569QQihZ018QQcategoryZ62053Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohost ing)

[Zakuen]

I can see the headlines already:

"1000 Stolen Units Tips the Scales: Rock Band delayed in Canada until 2012."


NOTE: ROCK BAND IS NOT DELAYED UNTIL 2012!!!!!


2008 on the other hand... :confused: