Comments on: Guitar Hero Will Charge a Second Disc Import Fee for World Tour and Smash Hits

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:21:51 +0000

For me Activision are the worst… I was attach to the series after GHIII then I don't know what happens but they lost it… youhou you can import the crappy song that you will not play anyway…

I mean… Now they just tried to catch up Rock Band… but RB have better downloadable contents… you can import all songs and the game is great…

Interface of GH5 is really cool, party mode very powerful and I really don't understant why they take so long for the import thing… They will lose more money not selling game and make customer angry instead of paying what they have to pay to import all songs…

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By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:29:45 +0000

There's a lot of songs players want to see export from GH2 and GH3.

Eric Johnson "Cliffs of Dover"
Disturbed "Stricken"
Queens of the Stone Age "3s & 7s"
Muse – "Knights of Cydonia"
An Endless Sporadic "Impulse"

Personally I want to see these and:

Pearl Jam "Even Flow"
Guns n' Roses "Welcome to the Jungle"
Dope "Nothing For Me Here"

The problem is, none of these songs have Drum and Vocal charts! So that makes it quite unlikely for them to export, unless something like "Guitar Hero Smash Hits 2" comes out..

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By: Thatguyoverthere

Thatguyoverthere — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:15:13 +0000

ryan12_penske – wow, saving 1c there.

but tbh as much of a rockband whore i am i did buy gh5, and i would love more songs to add to the playlist, but i only want to have to pay the export fee once and get all the songs off the disc per game (meaning i'd pay per game to export the songs), and then i'd delete all the songs i don't want/like. i'd love a full band playing of TTFAF or freebird (oh wait, that's available off ghsh) and other songs i love playing on previous gh titles.
i'll stick to gh5 dlc for now until the export costs include all the songs on disc (or at least all the songs i want from that game). also, i wonder if they could do an export thing with gh2 and 3 titles?

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By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:58:53 +0000

Here's an interesting quote from 8/8/09:

They are separate licenses, so we need to go back and re-license previous content," said Tim Riley, head of licensing for Activision. "So, songs from World Tour, songs from the download space, songs from Smash Hits that will technically work in Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero had to be renegotiated…We didn't want to do it for a couple songs. We wanted to do it for a couple hundred songs. So we have a lot cleared and we're in the process of clearing a lot more.

Source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3175494

Hmmm….

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By: Neoxon

Neoxon — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:11:09 +0000

I agree, they need to kick it into high gear for the imports. As for the Band Hero import, you can just get a manual from Blockbuster (assuming the code is still valid, though nobody in my neighborhood knows about importing).

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By: James

James — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:09:12 +0000

Honestly, I don't mind an additional fee as long as the music is importable, reasonably priced, and done sooner rather than later. When, oh when, are we going to be able to expand our library? I want the rest of GT:WT and GT:SH (not to mention Aerosmith, Metallica and VH) to be importable. After all, popping in one disc to play music I have already bought is what it's all about.

At first glance, I wasn't even going to bother with Band Hero, but now that I know I can import 61/65 songs out of it, I just might try to find a used copy where the import code hasn't been used yet..

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By: Neoxon

Neoxon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:10:46 +0000

I want Killer Queen, TTFAF, Smoke On The Water, Bark At The Moon, &….wait, it could take forever to list them all here. I just want as many GHWT & GHSH songs as legally possible.

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By: ryan12_penske

ryan12_penske — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:17:18 +0000

Yeah, I mean RB1's export fee of $5 for 55 songs was really overpriced. They could've went to $4.99.

Honestly, I have no urge to export Guitar Hero songs to my PS3, and I never will. It might be more convenient, but the game has lost a lot of its luster IMO. I'm glad I got GH:VH for free instead of paying $60 for it in december. I would've have been pissed if I had actually bought that crap.

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By: TheMirrorMystic

TheMirrorMystic — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:11:41 +0000

I have no problem paying another fee as you are getting the songs at a 0.10c per song rate which is much better than RB's going rate. With Band Hero having 61/65 songs exportable this looks like good news for future exports

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By: Andrex

Andrex — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:51:25 +0000

I'm willing to pay almost anything for Take Me Out and Misery Business.

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