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Activision on the other hand is dragging their feet as much as is humanly possible with respect to the Dolby Pro Logic issue with "Guitar Hero III" for the Wii. They're still "investigating" the matter. >:( Activision only needs to send out a replacement DVD with the DPL properly activated. EA has to send out a whole new guitar.]]>Nov 30th 2007 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/Nov 30th 2007 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/Nov 30th 2007 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/Nov 30th 2007 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/
Is it you or your parents in this income tax bracket?

(How can you afford your rock 'n roll lifestyle?)]]>Nov 30th 2007 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/Nov 30th 2007 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/
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read that if you want to learn how to fix it yourself if you dont feel like waiting for EA]]>Nov 30th 2007 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/Nov 30th 2007 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/Dec 1st 2007 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/
David Crowder a christian rock musician used one at a concert and it was freakin awesome!

It was running through a computer, and he Played an entire song this summer with a GH II Guitar.]]>Nov 30th 2007 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/Dec 17th 2007 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/Nov 30th 2007 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/Nov 30th 2007 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/Dec 1st 2007 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/Dec 7th 2007 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/Jan 2nd 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/
Guitar Hero3 v Rock Band = ROCK BAND

PS mom need wall mount for plasma for birthday to play drums on.]]>Jan 2nd 2008 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/
so I contact EA and get a replacement... 6 days later (amazed because this was right around Xmas day) I get the new guitar... then WITHIN 2 DAYS of using the new one, the down stroke stopped working...

I contacted EA again, who in return appologizes and tells me the new production run guitars are fixed and to request another replacement... (hard to believe since i JUST got a gutiar I would expect to be of this 'new' run)...

So now I'm sitting, with no playable guitar, a total of $250 held in my checking account from EA (that doesn't even include the 160 I paid for the game), and I'm mad as heck.

Honestly, if I get another guitar that breaks within 10 days, I'm requesting a full refund of my money. If refused, I'll gladly work on a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT with the primary offense being that they knew of the problems before launch. I've read so many threads and talked to so many people (players and game shop owners) who knew of the problems well before launch. And yet they insist on releasing faulty hardware.. not just once.. but multiple times... do they think we are stupid? (don't answer that, hehe).

If anyone else is interested in looking into legel response, please email me at rknepp79@gmail.com

Thanks,
Rk]]>Jan 8th 2008 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/
Anyway, I'm still going to try to get a replacement guitar that actually works. Hopefully that will fix the problem.

By the way, I see the original post was posted back in November. When did people start reporting the guitar problems? Did consumers or retailers know about the problem before the game was on the shelf? And if they promised to fix the problem, why am I still getting bad hardware over a month later? Grrr...]]>Jan 9th 2008 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/Jan 18th 2008 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/ea-acknowledges-rock-band-guitar-defect-promises-replacements/
There is no charge involved -- but you will need to install the replacement yourself and provide feedback to us.

BTW, by my calculations, the original switches in the guitar will typically fail after 50-100 songs ! (Depending on how hard you use it). Overall the guitar is pretty well designed and built, but the original strum bar switch is really sub-standard.

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