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TC
11/01/09

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I absolutely adore this game. It was a huge hit at our Halloween party this weekend. Drew a big crowd, stayed for hours and even dancing. #djhero
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Altima NEO
10/30/09

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6 bucks for 2 songs?

man....

Not only is the game pricey, but so is the DLC.

Im going to wait it out till the game drops to 50 bucks or so. #djhero
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Trexxen
10/29/09

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Something tells me nobody's going to get to see this, but I think the pricing is perfectly reasonable.

Not only do they have to license two songs per track, but they also have to either mix it themselves or hire other DJs to do it for them. There are less charts, but there's more work remastering the actual songs. In short, you're getting the amount of work you pay for - GH and RB can afford to price their songs at a dollar lower because they only have to chart the songs, but with this game, it's much more than that. #djhero
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excel_excel
10/29/09

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That's awful pricing. Just awful. Don't buy it guys! #djhero
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tharden33
10/29/09

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You're a F#@%ing idiot if you buy these. Micro-transactions are made by the devil. Screw the developers. #djhero
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1up
10/29/09

@tharden33: I think there's a difference between story-driven games with DLC and music games with DLC... As in, with a story game like Prince of Persia, you're pretty much missing out if you don't buy the epilogue... As for a music game, you don't have to buy shit, but you CAN, and that's what makes the micro-transactions for games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band and this such a good idea. I can just buy a song I adore if I want, and they just keep releasing more for me to expand my massive Rock Band collection, and that isn't a bad thing. The only bad thing about this is the pricing which is kinda unreasonable, but there is no place for music game DLC in the whole "planned DLC" argument you're bringing up, so just drop it.
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Mad-Hobo
10/29/09

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Has anyone actually played it? Is it any good? #djhero
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zåɳzißårléɠёпȡ
10/29/09

@Mad-Hobo: what i have playe dof it at best buy, it was fun. im opening my copy tonite. renegade edition unbox video coming soon to an interweb near you :) #djhero
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Zootalor
10/29/09

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IMHO all music game content doesnt have any right to cost more than the 99c it would cost on iTunes. #djhero
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Shinta
10/29/09

@Zootalor: IMHO, DLC shouldn't be released for a game a few days after it comes out, at any price.
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(Human) Gyaruson
10/29/09

@Zootalor:
With iTunes you only get one, low quality track. With Rock Band/GH you get four individual tracks (six with The Beatles Rock Band) and the ability to manipulate them to some degree. Add on top of that four degrees of difficulty for each track and all the lighting/animation cues for each character and you've got a crap-ton more content than an iTunes song for only a dollar more - sometimes they are even the same price! Yeah, makes perfect sense to me. 3 bucks will be harder to justify but it's still understandable. #djhero
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Coollead
10/29/09

@(Human) Gyaruson: I wouldn't call 256 kpbs DRM-free AAC files "low quality" #djhero
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(Human) Gyaruson
10/30/09

@Coollead:
Yeah, I haven't used iTunes in a while. The last time I used them they were 128 kbps and riddled with DRM. I forgot they recently made the jump to DRM-free. #djhero
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Falsoman
10/29/09

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Ouch!

I actually understand their reasoning for the pricing, and maybe the price is justified, however here's the deal... it's well above what I am willing to pay for a song.

I have to be very careful with my game-money, since I don't have that much.

So let's wait 'till next year for DJ Hero 2 and see where things go. #djhero
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KaneRobot
10/29/09

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Huh. Guess Harmonix needs to make a DJ game to force Activision to lower prices, just like Rock Band did to Guitar Hero.

Beatles Rock Band DLC cost a ton to get done as well, and it's the same price as regular Rock Band DLC. #djhero
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TRT-X
10/29/09

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See, this is where the use of mixes allows Activision to REALLY exploit the masses.

$3 gets you Queen + 50 Cent, or Gorillaz + Public Enemy.

Later on down the road, two new mixes will be released, this time with Queen + Public Enemy or Gorillaz + 50 Cent.

So basically, you'll have paid $12, and only have four new songs in the game.

And trust me, you'll see it happen. It's already the case in game. #djhero
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Weaselfingers
10/29/09

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If it was left to Bobby Kotick, he would raise the prices even further. #djhero
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wox42
10/29/09

@Weaselfingers: He'd also take all the fun out of it. #djhero
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chuffhoncho
10/29/09

@Weaselfingers: It was left to Bobby Kotick and that's exactly what he did. #djhero
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Slothboy
10/29/09

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What you see is the supply and demand curve in action. Since there is essentially unlimited supply (no limit to the number of times each song can be downloaded) they are moving the price point around to see when the demand curve is affected.

Basically, as long as people keep buying content at the same rate, the price will keep going up. #djhero
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Eviltim
10/29/09

@Slothboy: I'm thinking that they have hit a price where they will find that the demand for DLC will be quite elastic. I think that this DLC will be a really tough sell, especially if it comes every week. #djhero
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Modus_Operandi
10/29/09

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Not the best way to introduce a new product that already involves a pricey perphiral... #djhero
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D-K, a burning sensation
10/29/09

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No
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Friedhamster
10/29/09

@D-K, a burning sensation: Is that was seven on a pair of fuzzy dice means? #djhero
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expansionsss - the jaded gamer
10/29/09

@Friedhamster:

no dice #djhero
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D-K, a burning sensation
10/29/09

@expansionsss - the jaded gamer: No dice indeed. #djhero
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ReginaPhalange
10/29/09

@D-K, a burning sensation: To me it looks like it says "dice no" #djhero
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Shinta
10/29/09

@ReginaPhalange: me too #djhero
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D-K, a burning sensation
10/29/09

@crippled joke beaters: Yeah, yeah.. i tried my best to get the "no" on the left side.. no dice though..

I'M NOT INTERNET SAVVY.. YOU HAPPY NOW!!?? #djhero
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ryoshi
10/29/09

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$3 a track really *isn't* that bad at all. You pay $1.29 for songs on iTunes, and those aren't specialized for a game like this. Licenses cost money, people, and no matter what company it is - Activision, Neversoft, Atlus, Bungie - no company is going to offer DLC for a cost lower than what it costs them to create and distribute. #djhero
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Covertghost
10/29/09

@ryoshi: DLC used to be released for free... #djhero
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Spaceboy
10/29/09

@Covertghost: Yep. PC games used to get free DLC in the form of patches with new content.

TF2 is a great example of this. New game modes, new weapons - all released for free later on because it could've been in the original game. #djhero
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lolgreg
10/29/09

@Spaceboy: Sadly, TF2 seems like it's going to be one of the LAST examples of this. #djhero
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