Rock Band Creators Hit With Class Action Lawsuit

GameCyteSean writes "GameCyte is reporting that Harmonix, EA, MTV and Viacom have been targeted by a class action lawsuit. Customers allege that the companies knowingly shipped defective bass drum pedals for the music game Rock Band, then exploited customers' necessity for replacements by having the game's hardware warranty extension expire just as the sequel, Rock Band 2 — a game with improved pedals — was scheduled to release." I wonder if we'll see a similar suit against Neversoft and Activision over the equipment problems related to the Guitar Hero World Tour launch.

Comments

Re:Pot, Kettle, Blackness

[martinw89]

This has nothing to do with the pot calling the kettle black. That would be, to use your example, if Ford was filing a lawsuit against Harmonix because of mental anguish due to broken base pedals and warranty issues.

I don't see that happening anytime soon for some reason...

Re:GH Lawsuit? Please

[JimboFBX]

Yes, but that doesn't fix all issues, like the fact I to hit the cymbols near the hard plastic in order to get them to register as a crash, or the guitar that no longer downstrums and stores dont want to accept a return for. If I used their RMA, I would have to pay to ship their defective item back to them, then wait 3 weeks.

So I bought a copy of guitar hero WT with just the guitar, swapped out mine for the new one, then returned it.

The new guitar has a strummer that is squeakier than the guitar I own for Guitar Hero, the original PS2 game. The touch sensor is also so sensitive that just holding my hand an inch from it sets it off. I'll probably have to return it again, or live with the issues and oil the strummer myself.

But is it worth suing them? I do think they need to pay for their customers RMAs, at the cost of loss profits.

Re:GH Lawsuit? Please

[PsychosisBoy]

So I bought a copy of guitar hero WT with just the guitar, swapped out mine for the new one, then returned it.

Congratulations! You have committed fraud.

Re:Wait, what?

[mollymoo]

The plastic pedals on my Logitech Driving Force GT can be stamped on. I stamp on them regularly (though not every time, I modulate when required). The pedals on my previous wheel, a Logitech GT Force, were also plastic. They got stamped on for seven years. You can make stamp-on-able things out of plastic, you just need enough of the right sort of plastic in the right places. Metal isn't the answer, you can make weak shit out of metal too, the answer is proper design.

Re:GH Lawsuit? Please

[LunarCrisis]

Looking past the fact that two items are clearly not identical if one of them is defective. . .

When you "return" something that means that you are "returning" it. Meaning that you are giving back what you got. If you "return" something else, you are misrepresenting it, and obviously it is fraud.