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I Will Never Purchase Another Guitar Hero Game Thanks To This Installment
I wish I could give this item a lower than 1 star review. This game is an unbelievable overstep of 'micro-transactions'. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! You have to pay REAL MONEY each and every single time you want to play a specific song. If you wanted to play whatever songs you wanted each day, it would cost you $2190.00 *PER YEAR*. That is not a typo, or a miscalculation or exaggeration. They do not make this clear or state that in order to play a song you want, you have to purchase credits with real money, anywhere. Your only choice is to play up to 18 random songs (which get extremely repetitive and annoying) to earn enough credits for 3 ATTEMPTS at playing a song you want - a multi-hour investment just to get a few attempts, or to buy credits. They removed practice mode completely from the game, in order to funnel you into purchasing credits - meaning if you want to learn, for example, a difficult solo, your only option is to pay to play through the entire song just to attempt the solo, and if you fail, you get to insert another quarter to try again. This is absolutely ridiculous, and I refuse to support such an abusively greedy game - Activision has been known to be lowlife scumbags with their greed, but this takes things to an all time low. To top it all off, they made the guitar so cheaply that nearly every single detailed review mentions issues with it - from connectivity issues, to frets sticking, fret presses not registering, double-strums from faulty strum bars, and unresponsive 'hero power' activation. I don't mind the relentless DLC releases, and don't even mind picking up some extra songs if something I like is added, but now the micro-transactions are required to even play the base game you already paid for. As someone who loved a number of previous Guitar Hero installments, I could not be more disappointed and angry - I will never purchase another Guitar Hero game for as long as I live.
December 2015 · Video Games