RB's Spotlight Being Stolen?

[viru30]

Many of you may know that during the past few weeks, many songs have been confirmed for Guitar Hero III. Some of which are in Rock Band. And I'm afraid that Activision is just being unfair to HMX, basically stealing some of RB's previously confirmed songs. :

Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
Reptillia - The Strokes
... and also, Welcome To The Jungle, which was featured in an very early released demo video, is going to be in GH III.

I just think Activision and Neversoft are being straight-up unoriginal, I mean, what'll they take next, "Won't Get Fooled Again"? Sheesh.

[dlisapussy]

sounds like some bull**** to me

[parastroke7]

Sounds like a method of confusing the stupid people.

"oh no OH NO!? GH or Rock Band? I can't decide!"

and none of us are here fools, and have made the right decision already. I wouldn't worry about it, and am not worried about it.

[Magnet]

This has been discussed quite a bit already and should be posted in General, not on this board.

[geo2n2]

Man, I'm so sick of people claiming Activision "stole" songs from GH.
Licensing doesn't happen overnight. The announcements of songs tell nothing about when the rights were worked out.

No one has any clue who got the rights and when. Maybe EA knew GH was gonna get them so they beat them out w/ the announcement to steal GH's thunder. Maybe both RO and Harmonix were securing the rights to these songs before the split, and they both kept the rights to them. The bottom line is, unless they say who got the rights first (and they never will), no one knows. The timing of the announcements tells us nothing.

People needs to use their heads and stop being so stupid about this.

[Phiromos]

Man, I'm so sick of people claiming Activision "stole" songs from GH.
Licensing doesn't happen overnight. The announcements of songs tell nothing about when the rights were worked out.

No one has any clue who got the rights and when. Maybe EA knew GH was gonna get them so they beat them out w/ the announcement to steal GH's thunder. Maybe both RO and Harmonix were securing the rights to these songs before the split, and they both kept the rights to them. The bottom line is, unless they say who got the rights first (and they never will), no one knows. The timing of the announcements tells us nothing.

People needs to use their heads and stop being so stupid about this.

Says the man who has 12 posts and probably just left the GH forums

[MrMet2087]

Says the man who has 12 posts and probably just left the GH forums

cmon man u know he's right, its possible that guitar hero 3 could have secured the right BEFORE rock band, its just that rock band decided to announce the song 1st

[sushi111]

cmon man u know he's right, its possible that guitar hero 3 could have secured the right BEFORE rock band, its just that rock band decided to announce the song 1st


Thats almost certainly it, but it seems rather stupid that they didnt pick more guitar/bass ridden songs for Black Sabbath and The Strokes.

[JB4GDI]

Man, I'm so sick of people claiming Activision "stole" songs from GH.
Licensing doesn't happen overnight. The announcements of songs tell nothing about when the rights were worked out.

No one has any clue who got the rights and when. Maybe EA knew GH was gonna get them so they beat them out w/ the announcement to steal GH's thunder. Maybe both RO and Harmonix were securing the rights to these songs before the split, and they both kept the rights to them. The bottom line is, unless they say who got the rights first (and they never will), no one knows. The timing of the announcements tells us nothing.

People needs to use their heads and stop being so stupid about this.

Yeah, you're right on. It almost feels like the same thing that happened when Sony announced a motion-sensitive controller, and everyone went "OMG THEY STOLE FROM NINTENDO!!" While it does 'feel' like Activision is trying to steal thunder from Harmonix, it's most likely not intentional.

-Jaime

[lithiumkc]

Sony quite obviously did steal that idea though. They scrapped their original idea because of public outcry and at that point the wii's controller had long been announced. It was a complete ripoff.

I don't know/don't care who licensed these songs first. It's all marketing from now on, it doesn't really have any effect on the games themselves.

[psyborg]

I think the songs are way to obscure to be a coincidense, outside of Paranoid ofcourse. I mean of all the Strokes songs with great guitar riffs... and Mississippi Queen??

[vichnaiev]

Says the man who has 12 posts and probably just left the GH forums

He's got less posts than you, but he's got a point and you only have an insult. If don't agree with him, share your ideas, flaming won't help.

[FreQstar]

At this point who got the songs first is irrelevant. the GH people made the announcement second so to a lot of people (a great deal of GH forum poster even) the seem to be copying RB. True or not the perception is there. I'm kind of surprised they didn't just wait until they were ready announce the complete set list and kind of slide them in.

[geo2n2]

It'll be interesting to see what other songs end up in both games as the announcements continue. Considering Harmonix and Red Octane worked together so recently, there may have been more songs that they tried to get together for Gh2 & 80s and now both want to beat the other to licensing.

[cmg4894]

Here's another thought. Who ever owns the rights to the song went to BOTH companies and offered the songs. It doesn't matter who had what first. Here is my fear: that there will be too many songs that end up in both. I don't think that there is going to be a lot of people buying both at first. If they end up release the same songs via DLC to please their respective customers the people that have both are going to get screwed.