'Continued support' from fans reignites DLC possibilities for Guitar Hero and DJ Hero

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• Summary: DLC for Guitar Hero and DJ Hero will apparently continue after fans show support for both dying ... : XAVdeMATOS
• This is awesome. I love my DJ Hero 2 : Madwacker
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  From this post: http://theherofeed.com/2447/the-hero-dlc-continues/ The GH DLC may simply be leftov... : Masem
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    Previously, as stated in the linked post, the developers stated that the previously announced DLC would b... : XAVdeMATOS
    • Well they did kick down that awesome Pendulum pack for DJH2. Which I promptly purchased and played the fu... : Madwacker
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  Too bad I will never buy DLC for a guitar hero product due to incompatibility between versions. I person... : CyCo_PL
  • That was the single most reason I switched to Rock Band. Compatibility of RB1 - RB3 tracks and all DLC. : Madwacker
  • I was so glad they let the Death Magnetic album be played in GH:Metallica. I would have been so pissed. : OmegaRed59
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  Does anyone else feel like they're being scammed with this? It's like when MS announced they'd sold out ... : HisDivineShadow
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    Did Microsoft ever announce they had sold out of Kinects? All they did was release a statement at some po... : Haxim
    • Its not so much what they said, its how they said it and how they wanted to mislead you and create a perc... : rtrson
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  This is all fallout from Weekend Confirmed, Shacknews now sways Activision board members with succinct we... : graceofdragons
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    I feel like this is a panic reaction to the community reacting from Activision's financial call. One quote from Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg: "Given the considerable licensing and manufacturing costs associated with this genre, we simply cannot make these games profitably based on current economics and demand." ( http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/09/activision-no-new-music-or-skateboarding-games-this-year/ ).
    
    The official stance of that is that Activision will have no Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, or DJ Hero games for 2011, and that their music games business unit is closed down, 7 Studios got shut down, and Vicarious Visions underwent layoffs, but the logical conclusion drawn from that was "Guitar Hero is dead". That was literally the headline used by many news outlets, some of them from news organizations not in the usual gaming news sphere, such as Rolling Stone, NPR, etc. Activision had announced that day that they were only releasing the DLC that they had ready at the time ( http://www.shacknews.com/article/67469/ ), but I can imagine Activision PR looking at the response from gamers on the news, and thinking, "Oh crap, this is a disaster." Not just from the PR standpoint, but from breaking the expectations of track pack DLC for a game that was only on the market for a little over 4 months.

    Feb 27, 2011 10:37am PST
    I feel like this is a panic reaction to the community reacting from Activision's financial call. One quo : the archvile
• Had more respect for them when they where going to cancel these lame ducks. Whatever. Back to playing som... : rtricoche
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  I think Griffin McElroy at Joystiq said it best in his article: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/26/more-gu : the archvile
  • Those wacky, folks. : XAVdeMATOS
• This new shack layout is horrible. That is all. : vHazardous