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09-12-2008, 02:30 PM
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PS3 owners of Europe, Rock Band is finally here! Right? Nope. EA have pulled the PlayStation 3 edition of the game from stores, simply citing their reasoning as “we just can’t be bothered anymore”.
Hit the jump for more info. It’s a sad day.
Remember yesterday’s delayed PlayStation Store update, which Sony said was down to “technical difficulties”. Nuh-uh. According to a press release from EA released this morning, the delay was created so the publisher could withdraw all downloadable track packs for Rock Band before anyone could download them and realize they couldn’t use them. This decision was later retracted and the track packs were put back on, delaying the Store update even further. EA’s Michael Rotch:
“We figured might as well milk people for a quick buck even if what they’re downloading wont be usable. Why not? European PlayStation 3 owners have a teeny tiny unplayable slice of Rock Band they can salivate over and we make a few quid here and there. It’s a win-win situation!”
The decision to eventually stall Rock Band’s European PlayStation release permanently came down to the simple fact that the company “couldn’t be bothered trying to put the game out there anymore because it’s taken far too long and is nothing to do with our own laziness”. According to the press release: “We [EA] simply took too long thinking about whether or not we should give Rock Band to EU PS3 owners after sitting around on our asses for 10 months and then we just decided we’d left it too late.”
“Oh, and they wont be getting Rock Band 2 either.”
The instrument packs and physical copies of the game were never entered into production, states the press release, and they never will be. To help ease the pain, EA is offering an Xbox 360 copy of the game to all PS3 owners “so they can at least hold the box” for a bargain price of £60 (€75/$106) not including shipping fees.
“See?” remarked Mr Rotch, when queried about this offer. “We care about our PlayStation 3 userbase enough to at least offer them that.”
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PS3 owners of Europe, Rock Band is finally here! Right? Nope. EA have pulled the PlayStation 3 edition of the game from stores, simply citing their reasoning as “we just can’t be bothered anymore”.
Hit the jump for more info. It’s a sad day.
Remember yesterday’s delayed PlayStation Store update, which Sony said was down to “technical difficulties”. Nuh-uh. According to a press release from EA released this morning, the delay was created so the publisher could withdraw all downloadable track packs for Rock Band before anyone could download them and realize they couldn’t use them. This decision was later retracted and the track packs were put back on, delaying the Store update even further. EA’s Michael Rotch:
“We figured might as well milk people for a quick buck even if what they’re downloading wont be usable. Why not? European PlayStation 3 owners have a teeny tiny unplayable slice of Rock Band they can salivate over and we make a few quid here and there. It’s a win-win situation!”
The decision to eventually stall Rock Band’s European PlayStation release permanently came down to the simple fact that the company “couldn’t be bothered trying to put the game out there anymore because it’s taken far too long and is nothing to do with our own laziness”. According to the press release: “We [EA] simply took too long thinking about whether or not we should give Rock Band to EU PS3 owners after sitting around on our asses for 10 months and then we just decided we’d left it too late.”
“Oh, and they wont be getting Rock Band 2 either.”
The instrument packs and physical copies of the game were never entered into production, states the press release, and they never will be. To help ease the pain, EA is offering an Xbox 360 copy of the game to all PS3 owners “so they can at least hold the box” for a bargain price of £60 (€75/$106) not including shipping fees.
“See?” remarked Mr Rotch, when queried about this offer. “We care about our PlayStation 3 userbase enough to at least offer them that.”
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