It should not be legal for a product such as this to just cease existing due to an agreement between IP owners ending.
“We agree you can make this Mickey Mouse game, but it can only be sold for 2 years.” Fucking why?
Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses
Submitted 1 day ago by Jeffool@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Because in 2 year the value of the product might be higher and we expect to always be paid more, regardless of the current deal we are making today.”
~Disney, since it was established as a business
kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 day ago
Makes sense they bought Star Wars, so they can legally say “I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Except if you bought the game you still own a copy, they’re just not allowed to sell new copies.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There are a bunch of Marvel games that are exactly like this.
Somewhat related. I tried to watch Guava Island, which was apparently only made available for Amazon for a limited time, then it just disappeared.
I think it should be legal to download or stream any of that stuff that’s no longer available.
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s certainly ethical, if not legal.
You could make a good argument in court, too. Hard to show damages when there’s no possibility of profit because you’re not selling it.
III@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It doesn’t stop existing, you just can’t buy it… Not great but not unreasonable.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wouldn’t the solution just end up screwing artists who have to give up their song in perpetuity? You can have those buy pay way more
pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And this is why disc games should never go away.
vateso5074@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Don’t worry, the games industry has you covered on that now. They just release games that are broken or half-finished without the day 1 patch, but then allowing it to update removes all of the licensed content.
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The digital download isn’t going away either (yet).
Cort@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What like the songs or Kindle books that can be removed from your library next time your computer logs onto the Internet due to a licensing dispute?
With more games and systems requiring online access every X number of days, downloads don’t mean shit.
gramie@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
For about 1 year my two sons and I played Rock Band, mostly The Beatles, everyday when they came home from school. At least an hour each day. We played other versions of Rock Band, but the Beatles was easily our favorite.
It directly led one of them to learn the piano and eventually get a master’s degree in composing, and the other to enjoy playing in bands and performing in musical theatre.
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Man, this sucks. I haven’t played any games like this in a while (i legit have my guitar hero mounted on the wall) but it sucks to see something like this going away
umfk@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I’ve heard good things about YARG (yet another rhythm game). Basically a rock band clone on PC.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is one of the weird aspects of games that seems to make no sense because of archaic laws that never entered the 20th century, nevermind the 21st. It seems to be about manufacturing new copies of the already made game, not selling them. So it only affects digital sales, I would assume because of their “creation” on a new sale, every physical game copy was already manufactured and out there, nothing changes there.
degen@midwest.social 1 day ago
So uh, happy… anniversary… I guess?
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
End of an era 🥲
Obligatory plug: Rock Band 3 Deluxe mod, Rock Band 4 Deluxe mod
Shout-out to the Milohax teamryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I have so many good memories of playing Rock Band in college. I just picked this up for PS4 for like $10, but it looks like the instruments are going to cost an arm and a leg…
Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Just like being in a real rock band!
taiyang@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Too bad PS4 emulation isn’t quite there yet. You can, however, pirate the fuck out of the earlier games, DLC and all. Truly a better way to play, cause that DLC was hella expensive.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Rock Band 4 does get in-game now on ShadPS4, but it’s a long ways off from playable.
https://github.com/shadps4-compatibility/shadps4-game-compatibility/issues/1165
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And the songs will start to become unavailable to purchase over the next 9 years. I guess it’s a good reminder for me to buy all the songs I want to get.
Undearius@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Now’s a good opportunity to promote Clone Hero
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’ll never be quite the same without the master tracks.
Flatfire@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
For customs? Yeah. But pretty much every master used in the RB or GH games have been ripped and are available for use there too
Viirax@piefed.social 1 day ago
YARG as well
criss_cross@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m sad I never got this to fully work with my Td 17
Pupschism@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What’s not working? If any amount of midi is being picked up then you may need to remap, otherwise you might need drivers for the usb, or need to use a hardware usb midi box instead of usb