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In fact, Harmonix and its parent company MTV Games/Viacom recently declined Activision's offer to reach an agreement that would allow the use of Guitar Hero guitar controllers with Rock Band. |
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by Ceasar S. (QJ. NET Staff) - 2007-12-13 |
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...blameshifting much?
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Re: Ryan C. (QJ. NET Staff) - 2007-12-13 |
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Can't videogame developers just get along with each other? D:
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by dvdchas - 2007-12-14 |
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So it sounds to me like activision are after a licence fee to let harmonix/mtv include support for GH3 controllers in rockband. Be that drivers / source code / specs or whatever.
Now the original harmonix/mtv statment made it sound like a patch had already been developed, and that it was sitting with sony bad being blocked from release. I wonder if this was just wishful thinking. I guess the question is how harmonix developed the patch. if they simply reversed engineered the drivers, without any help or code from activision they should be fine to release it. As someone mentioned on another group DMCA has provisions for allowing reverse engineering to provide better compatibility.
The question is how is harmonix getting away with have GH3 controller compatibility on the 360?
Why don't harmonix and activision simply exchange ip for there respective controllers. that way both companies can release a patch, and i can go out and purchase both games, rather then just rockband.
i know the two companies are in competition, and there maybe some previous bad feeling there, but i don't see how this mess helps either company.
Final think. Whats stopping harmonix from releasing a patch that lets users manually map each button. That way i could at least use my ps2 GH2 controller via an adapter or even the six axis / dual shock
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by Hohlraum - 2007-12-14 |
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harmonix should tell activision to f'off. activision is to freaking stupid. the only way you can get extra guitars right now is to buy additional copies of the games. if GHIII controllers work with RB then RB players are much more likely to purchase GHIII for the extra guitar than to purchase another RB set.
activision, you are a bunch of freaking morons.
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by ISOHaven - 2007-12-14 |
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This is a bunch of crap. The gutar has to comply with Sony. Not the other way around. So there couldn't be a license fee that goes to Activision.
Sony is the real culprite. Activision cried like a baby and Sony put a hold on the patch. Otherwise there is no reason for the patch to not roll out.
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