Loading ...Ugg… looks like a shit-storm of problems for gamers this holiday season.
First 1-Up fires off a “preview” of it’s time with the “near final” copy of Half Life: Orange Box for the PS3, and said it’s just a useless pile of crap; ridden with bugs and unplayable in parts. Given that Valve’s head honcho, Gabe Newell, hates the PS3 platform in general, I have to assume this isn’t a mistake or was intentional. Valve can’t hate making money, so my guess is either they were incentified to make the port blow, or it was costing them so much to do the port that they are just going to go ahead and drop it on it’s head like a retarded baby. Thanks fuckers!
Second we get news from VE3D that the Rock Band controllers, specifically the necks on the guitars and the drum sets (both kick stands and drums) are totally falling apart. It also seems it doesn’t take much more than “a few hours of hard songs” to destroy the strummer on the Rock Band guitars… booya! So Rock Band treated us to the $180 price point for Rock Band, which a lot of people thought was reasonable, but now they are either going to eat any profits they realized by warranty-ing such shit parts, maybe a classaction lawsuit or folks will just stick to Guitar Hero 3.
Oh yea, and don’t forget the Gears of War PC bugs that make it suck the ass either.
Happy Holidays everyone! Here’s another year to getting raped by manufacturers and retailers!
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November 25th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
My Rock Band guitar strummer is no longer working correctly (doesn’t strum when I down strum, and it likes to add in random strums on hold notes [aka - WHEN I'M NOT STRUMMING!]) — so I’m back to my two Xplorers from GH2.
My drum’s far left pad has been a little random on sensitivity — sometimes fine, and sometimes ignores the hits — I don’t hold out much hope for it at this point though.
I hope EA has a good policy on handling these things, since they put a huge neon-pink notice inside the box (in fact, it’s on top of all the stuff in the box, so you see it first) telling you to NOT return the peripherals to your retailer if you experience problems.
I guess I’ll find out soon, and report back with how my experience goes…