Comments on: Australian Rock Band Pricing Confirmed, Still Ball-Busting

By: Cheapo

Cheapo — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:10:49 +0000

Remember EB's prices are the absolute maximum, the RRP if you will. One could imagine that if other retailers (read KMart/BigW) end up stocking this it'd probably be for $20 less on each item.

Still ridiculous. I don't know why they're bothering at all with RB2 around the corner, they should be trying to create incentive to buy any of this.

Just sell RB2 and instruments, and sell RB1 disc for cheap!

By: BrendanT

BrendanT — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:13:10 +0000

Paid $280 for PS3 version of this on Ebay, minus the extra guitar.

This made me lol.

By: NegativeZero

NegativeZero — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:38:48 +0000

But they still won't confirm whether the instruments are the old, poorly designed, failure-prone Rock Band instruments or the new, fixed Rock Band 2 instruments. And until we know, I'm not biting.

Why is it so damned hard for games publishers to just be *honest* to their Australian customers?

By: GaryBusey

GaryBusey — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:14:25 +0000

Pete Wentz works at EB? I suppose he is a bit of fuckwit though...

$520 for the full deal - do they honestly think people will pay that much?

Huh? Whats that EA, you're a bunch of Corporate shitheads whos last really good game was released around the same time Trip Hawkins left? You are correct sir.

By: David Fowles

David Fowles — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:41:42 +0000

The whole delay/price debacle has been great marketing for Guitar Hero IV. Even if it were the same price I’d probably go with GH4 just on principle at this point. Choke on a dog, EmptyV/EA.

By: pete wentz

pete wentz — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:14:07 +0000

those are the prices.
i work at eb.

By: Weeksy

Weeksy — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:55:49 +0000

@ Karachi King - yeah, it's as Logan said (and contained in the article he linked to in the story), I posted the pricing information into the official Rock Back Forums when the NZ pricing came out, and HMXHenry - one of the Devs at Harmonix quickly jumped in to say that the Kotaku & Game Planet information was "Completely Wrong".

My wife works at a large Retailer in Australia, and has been provided with exactly the same pricing (although EB have apparently helped themselves to an extra $20.00 on the Instrument Pack), and a date of early-October, exactly the same info that everyone BUT Harmonix seemes to be receiving.

The fact that time and time again Electronic Arts Australia will not respond to a request for comment from the likes of Kotaku, IGN (News Corp. for god's sake), the Official Playstation & X-Box magazine & many others says to me that they would have no trouble whatsoever keeping Harmonix out of the loop on something like pricing.

By: Karachi King

Karachi King — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:10:29 +0000

@Logan Booker: I agree it’s possible the pricing may be correct, I just don’t think EB is a particularly reliable source. I guess I’m secretly hoping it’s not true, because I want to game to be released here and do well.
Of course, I wouldn’t be surprised if EA kept everyone in the dark(I’m fairly certain they kept Bizarre in the dark/flat out lied about the Aussie release of Boom Boom Rocket). They certainly don’t seem too keen on supporting Australia.

By: Muppatz

Muppatz — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:53:20 +0000

I don't see how those prices are reasonable, especially since I imported my copy from UK (game) and US (peripherals) a few months ago and saved about $200 on that price! And yes, that's including the shipping costs.
I imagine that shipping the units over in bulk would save them quite a lot versus what I paid, so it must just be that other countries hate us.

By: mikezombie777

mikezombie777 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:37:39 +0000

This is a joke right? I paid less than that for my console……