These products are terrible.

[C16]

I'm sure it's been stated, discussed, ect. a million times over, but this equipment is ****ing god awful terrible. I've gone through 4 guitars and 2 drum sets, all have had varying issues of functionality. My current anger is directed at these terrible drums. I don't see how a company can put out such ****ty peripherals that are almost always defective. I'm tired of RMAing my **** and getting back the same problem in a new box. Do you guys do ANY quality control testing on this garbage? Missed notes, double notes, faulty strum bars and tilt sensors. I'm going to be extremely pissed if the next generation of equipment fixes all the problems, especially after I had to pay to replace my second drum kit and my first wireless guitar. I shouldn't have to pay again to get something that does what the first one I bought doesn't. You guys should drop ****ty EA and get a company that actually knows what they're doing in terms of hardware.

[Tyrindor]

Every single game that released stuff like this has problems with their equipment at first, its cheap plastic equipment.

If you want quality, grab the 300$ premium drums - which are mostly metal. I'm sure the standard RB2 stuff will be much more reliable.

[Phane7]

Every single game that released stuff like this has problems with their equipment at first, its cheap plastic equipment.

If you want quality, grab the 300$ premium drums - which are mostly metal. I'm sure the standard RB2 stuff will be much more reliable.

I disagree. Whoever EA contracted to manufacture these instruments is horrible. I've got the game on two platforms.

On the PS3, I went through 4 defective Strats (1 bad strummer, 3 bad tilt sensors) before finally getting one that was "workable" with a sticky fret that I just WD-40'd and a fickle whammy that I solved with a rubber band. I had a drum kit with a red pad that dropped every 4th note and got lucky, as it's only replacement has been perfect since November of last year.

On the 360, I went through 2 defective Strats (1 bad strummer, 1 bad tilt sensor) before finally getting one that seems flawless, now. I've currently been waiting 2 weeks for EA to ship me an express RMA on my 5th replacement drum kit as ALL of them up to now have dropped 5-10% of the notes and scored double hits 5% of the time on at least one pad. One set of QM's wouldn't register hits at all unless I hit within 1.5 inches of dead center on the pad on ANY of the pads.

That's not including the one defective microphone I've got that I never bothered to RMA since the good one I have works on both platforms.

I know my results aren't exactly common, but I've never even HEARD of another game requiring that many RMA's on it's peripherals.

Total between both platforms for me is 2/8 working guitars and 1/6 drum kits, meaning that for me the Strats have had a 75% defect rate and the drum pads an 83% defect rate.

[Project_Mercy]

I agree with Phane7, that they were poorly designed. You can get a cheap electronic drum board with a few pads on it that plays a lot better then the RB drums, and people have already made much better guitar peripherals.

At this point though, it's irrelevant. You know they suck, I know they suck, and EA is well aware that they suck. I promise you they've paid through the teeth for the poor design. To some extent, they've served their "fine" for failure.

RB2 instruments will be here in another month-ish. One assumes that they have as much of a vested interest (if not more so) as the rest of us to have some that don't fail every few hours.

As such, while venting your invective on the board probably feels pretty awesome, it's not going to help or hinder much at this point. Time will tell if they got it right this time.

[olds403]

the problem is MADE IN CHINA cheaper is better,you guys probability get the money back as a loss at tax time.so the only losers are the poor people that buy the game.more rmas for rockband 2.l personaly wont buy it

[NinjaWeasel]

I'm going to have to agree with this. My Wii guitar wouldn't connect this morning (Sunday morning - bought the game Friday evening). I go online to look for support and find dozens of posts of people who encountered equipment going defective virtually right out of the box. Given the amount of time this has been on the market, they should have been able to sort out their manufacturer by now.

After reading about how terrible the hardware is, there's no way I could recommend this game to friends on a clean conscious.

I guess the big warnings throughout the box saying "Please don't return this to the Store!" should have been a hint.