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OXM Band: The Opening Act

by Roly Reyes on January 3, 2008 at 8:03 pm

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The Next Big Thing!

Official Xbox Magazine’s February issue will come packed in with new Rock Band songs Bang Camaro’s Rock Rebellion, Count Zero’s Shake along with Freezepops’ Sprode. I read OXM– it’s a great magazine with a fantastic group of writers and I bear no ill will toward them or Harmonix. But this pisses me off beyond belief.

Did Harmonix come to the conclusion, “how can we screw the small group of people that stuck with us in the transition from Guitar Hero by making them buy a magazine?” Or even better, “can we rip on our PS3 audience by not even giving them the chance to get these songs so conveniently?”

It’s great that they’re making three songs semi-free. Even Activision gave away a free song (the Halo 3 theme). But that was readily available to anyone who had an Xbox Live account. PS3 users, not so much. Even so, I’m not so sure many PS3 users would want to jam out to the MJOLNIR mix anyways.

Let’s just hope I never get to rant about this ever again.

Source: Official Xbox Magazine

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3 Comments »

  1. Dan Landis
    on January 4, 2008 12:54 am

    You’re crazy! Why would you complain that OXM is giving away free stuff? They do it all the time. They gave out some Oblivion DLC that you otherwise paid for, and they also gave out Chapter Two or whatever for GRAW. I don’t see how you can be mad that OXM is appreciating their readers, especially since you seem to be one of them.

  2. Roly Reyes
    on January 4, 2008 1:03 am

    I’m not as mad at OXM as I am Harmonix/MTV/EA, mostly because that’s a deal that was struck with The Official Xbox Magazine, affiliated with Microsoft.

    I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a business guy, but I believe that within reason they could’ve thrown those songs on the Marketplace with some advertising in the description, kinda like Discovery with that Gears of War map pack a while back.

    Not to mention our PS3 brethren, that as far as I know, are getting left out in the cold.

  3. Dan Landis
    on January 4, 2008 1:44 am

    If Microsoft wants to throw money at the devs/publisher to get some bonus junk, that’s their prerogative to do so. Are you also mad that GTA4 is getting those exclusive episodes on 360? I mean, I understand what you’re saying, but you can’t be mad at people if they accept cash for some extra love. We’re not talking politics here, after all (we sorta are, but you see my point).

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