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News Credits: 10 · by **sniper_samurai** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:21 pm

EA announced the release date and pricing of Rock Band for Europe today.

For the privalage of getting 9 extra tracks and a release date of 23th of May, 7 months after the US we get to pay a whopping $380/€240/£180 to obtain a copy and all the instruments.

I was looking forward to getting this game, now I think Kotaku sum it up best that

Kotaku wrote:Whether it's MTV or EA behind this price, you can take that price, and you can stick it up your arse.

To put this into perspective EA are selling a mass market game aimed at casual gamers for £20/€30 less than an Xbox 360 Pro. This is the most ott price I've ever seen for a game, don't mention Steel Battalion as that was expensive due to its extremely low production run, this is over double the US price for no apparrent reason.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:23 pm

Now you get to choose between playing Rock Band, and having food in the house. Choose wisely!

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:50 pm

Or, you know, buy a real guitar and an amp for that much and play that instead.

(And yes, I know £180 wouldn't buy you a great guitar and amp together. But you could get some pretty good practise stuff, or maybe an acoustic)

I too was gonna get this game. Now, they can shove it.