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Added by Jeff Gerstmann on Nov. 5, 2008
One of the tidbits out of today's earnings call from Activision has me just kind of shaking my head. Here's Stephen Totilo's version of the proceedings...
In an earnings call today, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said that the “GHTunes” is a smashing success that shows the way to a new business model: “GHTunes has attracted over 25,000 user-generated songs,” he said during opening remarks. “That means we will likely have up to 100,000 songs by year’s end.… The ability to offer these songs on a subscription basis may very well [present] the newest opportunity in our subscription portfolio.”
Sooo... let me get this straight. You want to take user-generated music... and sell access to these songs as part of a subscription package? Did someone forget to tell Mr. Kotick that most of the user-created songs on the GHTunes service are kind of awful? At least they were the last time I looked at it. Somehow I doubt that a significant amount of amazing material has gone online in the last week.
In fact, GHTunes seems to be adhering perfectly to Mario's Law, which states that any console-based level construction tools will immediately be used to create some cheap knock-off of Super Mario Bros. music. Like so...
Here is another video of what was, as of the 27th, anyway, the top user-submitted song on the service, "Impossible."
Would you pay money to access this kid's rad tunes?
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46 Comments
Bullshit. Someone make some good songs, already!!!! Also, DON'T MAKE US PAY FOR THEM!!!
People complain about Nintendo being money-grubbers nowadays . . .
I seriously fucking hate Kotick. He is the worst man in the industry. I am being dead fucking serious here. EVERYTHING he says is about fucking consumers in the ass, and he always says it with such excitement and glee. We're adding more advertising! We're charging you fees! Battlenet is a huge financial opportunity for Activision! Fuck off you repulsive fat ginger.
hold on....you pay for the game with this feature built in, then you spend your hard earned time (and we all know time is money!) making a good song.....then you have to pay to be able to download user generated content! and that money doesnt even go to the user?! we live in a sick world my friends.
To answer you question Jeff the answer is a big fat NO! I would not buy the songs from this douchey kid.
You know you want to pay for all those songs people made just to get an achievement, it's so worth it....
The kid in the second video = epic tool
The kid in the second video = epic tool
Oi, I was going to get Guitar Hero:WT in a couple months, but this is just too much.
Developers think they can just rip you off and that we'll just bend over and take it. I do not approve. Though, I don't have a current gen console, so I won't be buying this game anyway. I'm just gonna stick with Audiosurf.
LOL at the kid in the second video!
I didn't think it could get any worse! (Not that Guitar Hero is necessarily a bad game, but this is more ridiculous than Brian Bright.)
I didn't think it could get any worse! (Not that Guitar Hero is necessarily a bad game, but this is more ridiculous than Brian Bright.)
This is so incredibly stupid. I completely agree that the song making stuff on these games are kinda not very good. At all. And the big selling point of this whole thing was that it was a big catalog of songs you could download FOR FREE. Completely defeats the purpose if they start charging for it, and they won't even be paying the people that are giving them the stuff that they are charging for, which would also be bull.
Wait, was that the whole song.......?
And Mario's Law, yes, spot on. Awful, awful drums on that track.
If you have to pay for Battle.net on top of having to pay for Starcraft 2 three times just to get the full campaign, I am not going to buy another Blizzard game, ever.
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