"Now that you have all this money, we'll be suing you now." :3

[Goufunaki]

The ****, konami?

http://kotaku.com/5024079/konami-sui...over-rock-band

[JPS]

Re: "Now that you have all this money, we'll be suing you now." :3

Its a cheap and dirty way of making money...you come up with something that you know will be made one day, put a patent on it, not tell anyone, then play the waiting game.

[Manji]

Re: "Now that you have all this money, we'll be suing you now." :3

its a dirty business move, but id rather see konami with extra cash instead of harmonix. what has harmonix done for video games really. out of full transparency and disclosure, i will say i have no feelings for the rockband game or anything like it, so im not really basing this on fairness, but a bias.

[John Mora]

Re: "Now that you have all this money, we'll be suing you now." :3

To be fair, we wouldn't be playing music games if it wasn't for Konami.

[Valkysas]

Re: "Now that you have all this money, we'll be suing you now." :3

Its a cheap and dirty way of making money...you come up with something that you know will be made one day, put a patent on it, not tell anyone, then play the waiting game.

How?

Konami invented the genre. Konami created the instrument controller. They aren't suing Guitar Hero because they got permission and paid for a license. Rock Band didnt. thus, lawsuit.

[Duel]

Re: "Now that you have all this money, we'll be suing you now." :3

You can just *sniff* smell the greeen

[Goufunaki]

Re: "Now that you have all this money, we'll be suing you now." :3

I cant think of any music games from konami with instruments. ^_^;

All that comes to mind is DDR's dance pad.

[Caciss]

Re: "Now that you have all this money, we'll be suing you now." :3

It's kind of a dickhead move, whatever way you wanna justify it.

[John Mora]

Re: "Now that you have all this money, we'll be suing you now." :3

I cant think of any music games from konami with instruments. ^_^;

All that comes to mind is DDR's dance pad.

Guitar Freaks and Beatmania. And I think there was a keyboard one, too.

[Valkysas]

Re: "Now that you have all this money, we'll be suing you now." :3

It's kind of a dickhead move, whatever way you wanna justify it.

If they don't go after rock band, they have to give the license money back to guitar hero, and lose all rights to enforce the patent in the future.

You have to do these things to protect patents you own, whether you want to or not.

[Caciss]

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It's been near a year since release, kind of slow acting lawyers but whatever *fart*.

[Goufunaki]

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Guitar Freaks and Beatmania. And I think there was a keyboard one, too.

*googles*

Ah, ok.

[Red Dragon]

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I think it's the fact that they waited until they made boat loads of money before doing it rather than nipping it in the bud.

[JPS]

Re: "Now that you have all this money, we'll be suing you now." :3

Guitar Freaks and Beatmania. And I think there was a keyboard one, too.

Never heard of either one. {:-o

[Goufunaki]

Re: "Now that you have all this money, we'll be suing you now." :3

Ok, after seeing the controller and a video of guitar freaks, I'm now siding with konami on this.

The games are just too similar.