yay! down with activision dammit

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awesum

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no (one cares) doubt

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Ugh. This country has an addiction to suing.

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Didn't even know they had reunited

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band hero? fuck my life

.. needing money for the records sales they won't be receiving next year?

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yeah but activision deserve to be sued

Is that Courtney Love in the picture above?

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I hate Activision, it is definitely a shame that they own COD: Modern Warfare.

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Activision is way OP. Take em down son!

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Dead Space is EA Ghostechoes...although they're both evil

My bad. I guess then Modern Warfare is the only IP Activision owns which I actually care about. And yes, both are evil, but recently EA seems less malign.

yeah but activision deserve to be sued

Activision sucks, they have like what, 5 guitar hero/gh related games coming out a year now? seriously, they havent even changed much its just the same game but new songs, which is what downloadable content is for anyway.

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bull shit dude, I saw them this summer and they were absolutely fantastic

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Activision sure do love to milk...

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Ohh fucking wahh, who gives a shit if you're video game likeness is used to play other artists songs and not just your own...that's one of the most ridiculous things I've heard to come out of the Rockband/Guitar Hero/ect. camps.

Band Hero? Really? Where the hell did this one come from

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it's not like they actually care about said issue. however, they do care that they found a loophole in the contract to make themselves some more money.

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...yeah cause this worked so well for miss courtney love...


...just makes them look like elitist pricks...

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just makes them look like elitist pricks

So what if they get more face time on the game? These guys really need to get over themselves...

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yay i hate activision! rock band is so much better! at least they get avatars of good bands like queen!

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cool

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what a stupid lawsuit. authorized for only 3 songs, not the others. IT'S NOT THAT BIG A DEAL! calm the hell down and don't be such money grubbing whores about it

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i mean the lawsuit is not gona change the fact that you can play them as them on all the songs, its all about the money nothing else

i dont see why they give a fuck, so i wont

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Why don't any of these bands sign a contract? Would that not make things alot easier?

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first world problems.

Why don't any of these bands sign a contract? Would that not make things alot easier?

"Take this pink ribbon off my eyes..."

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Gwen is still a babe in her 40s.
And that's about all I have to say about that

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Sounds like someone (no doubt) didn't read the fine print.

Why don't any of these bands sign a contract? Would that not make things alot easier?



No Doubt have filed a lawsuit against gaming company Activision, claiming "fraudulent inducement and breach of contract".



Apparently you can't read too well.

Because it's illegal. Making use of a persons likeness when they haven't agreed to it is illegal and has been for some time. And what I find interesting is the number of people in this thread calling them money-grubbers and saying they shouldn't care, as though you wouldn't do the same thing. The only people who ever talk about how they wouldn't do anything just for the money are people who'll never be in a situation to have that much money. If Activision broke a contract and No Doubt wants to sue that's completely fine and technically the right thing to do.

Like they really need the extra money. No Doubt just lost a little respect in my book.

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just makes them look like elitist pricks


How exactly?


"my band is too ligit to be seen lip-synching to the likes of T-Swift, and Aly and AJ..."

i mean they ARE a pop band right...?

im sure there is some sort of fine print that they didnt understand... just like there was with Love...
i mean activision misleading artists isnt cool... and it prolly doesnt encourage artists to work with them in the future...

i still dont understand what the fuss is about...

So by your understanding only bands who are super-underground, who've never been heard by more than 5 people should be allowed to claim breach of contract? You still haven't explained how it makes them seem like elitists, suing for breach of contract doesn't say "I am better than everyone else" it says "give me my money you shady game developer".

maybe im reading this too similarly to the Kobain incident, where the reasoning behind the whole mess was primarily concerned with the image of the artist performing songs that are out of character and defaming their name... hence me thinking that it makes them sound pretentious...

... if activation owes them money then by all means i hope they get it... unfortunately for them, i bet activision has their bases covered...

... i say anyone has the right to claim a breach of contract... i just dont think they will get it... so why sound whinny in the process?

wtf..almost like they reunited to sue activision.

well...all i know is that Band Hero was the worst guitar hero game yet. its filled with the most shitty music you can gather together - all coupled from horrible pop music

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its filled with the most shitty music you can gather together - all coupled from horrible pop music



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I liked that Spider-Man game for the 64 back in the day, but Kurt looks like a dumb-ass in that game

They need to be sued

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