gaming Guitar Hero Live to Shut Down

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Guitar Hero Live launched in 2015 as Activision's response to Rock Band 4, and adopted a "stream music" model where you paid to stream songs to play and had to pay for plays rather than the traditional model of buying the DLC and owning it forever. Moreover, Rock Band 4 carried over most of the DLC from previous games so people who already owned DLC already had access to it on day one for Rock Band 4 which kept the traditional model.

Well after only just 3 years, Guitar Hero TV (the streaming service) will be shutting down, thus crippling the game's playability significantly. This will effectively reduce the in game songs to only 23 indefinitely on all versions, while Rock Band 4 ships with almost 100 on the base game and almost 3,000 DLC songs.

This is once again further proof that software as a service totally blows and kills longevity of games. Activision's greed got the better of them and Guitar Hero Live was overall a big financial failure. What are your thoughts?

[Photon Jet 5,491]

This along with Star Wars Battlefront 2 proves that quantity over quality is no good. There are now companies that are going up against micro-transactions as they leave a bad impact on the gaming community.

[Clod 8,294]

As a fan of Guitar Hero,

ok.

Not really sad to see it go. GH Live was garbage and I'm glad I got RB4 instead. But now we have something even better: Clone Hero. It beats any of the other games except that it's limited to guitar (but Phase Shift has drums and stuff if you want that, and CH will eventually). Instead of paying around $2 per song in Rock Band, the community makes charts for free. Not for money, but because they want to.

GHL is dead. Whatever. Not many people played it anymore. It was going to happen. The community made a better game than the original.

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9 minutes ago, meme said:

As a fan of Guitar Hero,

ok.

Not really sad to see it go. GH Live was garbage and I'm glad I got RB4 instead. But now we have something even better: Clone Hero. It beats any of the other games except that it's limited to guitar (but Phase Shift has drums and stuff if you want that, and CH will eventually). Instead of paying around $2 per song in Rock Band, the community makes charts for free. Not for money, but because they want to.

GHL is dead. Whatever. Not many people played it anymore. It was going to happen. The community made a better game than the original.

Yeah, I was glad I went with RB4 myself. It is still nice to see people making clones though which offer free content.

[Rawzy 1,302]

GH Live? haha. Everyone knows that rock band is way more superior. I never liked the idea of having to strum in certain ways and to actually press buttons for different strings on a fret. Rock band also had thousands upon thousands of custom charts made by the community, and yes the community is still pretty alive with rock band, phase shift, guitar hero, etc.

[Clod 8,294]

Just now, Rawzy said:

Rock band also had thousands upon thousands of custom charts made by the community

No, I think Harmonix charts all the DLC. Only things that have custom charts would be Clone Hero and Phase Shift.

[Megas 27,742]

Boy, that was definitely a franchise worth reviving 

/s

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55 minutes ago, Whomps said:

Boy, that was definitely a franchise worth reviving 

/s

It would have been if they actually put effort into it.

[Clod 8,294]

1 hour ago, Whomps said:

Boy, that was definitely a franchise worth reviving 

/s

You're right, if you left out the /s. It was insanely popular before they killed it and if they didn't completely mess it up they could've had something. Probably not the popularity of the 2000's but still something. But instead they made it an unrecognizable mess.