September 28th 2009 11:35 am PT

Deal of the week: Select Guitar Hero favorites for 25% off

Save 50%...if you are a Gold Member.

This week Xbox LIVE Gold Members have gave 25 % off on this weeks deal of the week. 10 Guitar Hero favorite tracks, normally priced at 160 points each are now 120 points each:

 

The Killers – Mr. Brightside
Travis Barker – Low
Blink 182 – What’s My Age Again
Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl
Queen – We Are The Champions
Ram Jam – Black Betty
Nickelback – Because of You
Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
Foreigner – Hot Blooded
Blind Melon – No Rain
 

Deal, Marketplace By Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson

permalink: http://majornelson.com/2009/09/28/deal-of-the-week-select-guitar-hero-favorites-for-25-off/

  • Mario23air

    All deals of the week should be 50% off, like the competition’s deals.

  • AriesDog

    What the? These are nearly all the songs I already own.

  • Jay ITFC

    There should be 2 deals each week – an arcade game and DLC for a retail title.

  • faultrd

    Could we have this post again, this time in English? Cheers <3

  • Kandrick

    What a joke of a deal.

    DLC songs discounted. YAY.

  • rogXue

    heh same deals are on the PSN. I call deal fail :D

  • WeezeeWare

    Of course , I own all of these already !!
    Lame deal of the week!!

  • Twister65

    Yeh, the same lameness happens with my local grocery store every week. They advertise detergent on sale, and wtf… I’ve already got detergent! Or a case of Coke… and again, wtf, I’ve aleady got some! They’ve really got some nerve putting stuff I already have on sale. O_o

    Geez… relax people.

  • Mcmax3000

    I love all of the people that call it a lame/stupid deal just because they own whatever is on sale…

    The thing is: not everybody else does.

    While I personally don’t like GH:WT enough to spend more money on it, if they ever do this with Rock Band songs, I’m all over it.

  • ShaggyB

    do these work in GH5…. if not then this is a rip off.

    Stick with DLC for non music games or XBLA title deals please

  • Anonymous

    Can someone confirm if these title work with GH5 please ?

  • LEGENDARY T0AD

    WoW what a deal, Why bother.

  • Mushroom Jones

    I’d be down with two deals a week, one on a past acrade title and one on a past add on (songs/themes/etc.) Don’t care for GH stuff, that ship has sailed.

  • Exu

    You know I could have sworn originally this “deal” was supposed to be 50% off.
    Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I had some sort of proof?
    Oh hang on, I have: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/08/xbox-360s-deal-of-the-week-games-on-demand-avatar-dlc-for-s/
    So what made you change your mind, Microsoft? Greed?

  • r3dreck

    Don’t think they work with GH5… think it was said that all content for it will be new DLC. I play RB1-2 so not 100% on it.

  • Gambit3rd

    Uhm, early news on other sites reported 50% discount. 25% on a so little price (I think no one will take every song of that tier) is not a fantastic deal and it leave you with odd points to waste.

    Anyway, I heard it is avaiable on Silver accounts too… And I saw that on the japanese Marketplace site the songs are 120 MSP too even if the Deal Of The Week is Buku Sudoku for 400 MSP.

    So I think this is an Activision deal, not a MS one.

  • rogXue

    actually the MS Deal kinda sucks… This is from the PS blog

    http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/09/playstation-store-update-104/

    25 Guitar Hero World Tour songs are on sale for $1.50 this week!

  • hied

    Gold members having gaven good deal.

  • Mcmax3000

    Yes, these work on GH5. The GH5 DLC doesn’t work with GH:WT but the GH:WT DLC works with GH5.

  • krisxx

    ALL GH:WT DLC Songs (except for the 6 Hendrix songs) WORK with GH5. So a decent deal if you don’t own any.

  • Rick Dias PK

    Major, Exu’s link is something of a black eye on this matter. Can you please explain how this has happened?

  • Gambit3rd

    Sony’s members are getting better deals. They have Brain Challenge DLC too (no one on X360!) and… Brain Challenge is an hit (400 MPS) only in USA. Still 800 MSP here in Europe.

    And now the World Tour DLC too. 10 VS 25.

    I feel so unhappy. :/

  • AriesDog

    @ShaggyB @Otaku The GHWT DLC works just fine in Guitar Hero 5.

  • Ark Hunter

    Yeah, maybe if they were 80 pts, but I don’t buy any GH DLC. Only RockBand.

  • iruhlman

    I don’t buy any GH DLC anymore after nothing worked from 3.

    Rock Band FTW!

    World Tour in itself should of been DLC. not a new game. This business model has failed.

  • slambert15

    RB DLC would’ve been a better deal IMO.

  • AriesDog

    Just bought Blind Melon – No Rain because of this sale.

  • NBA Kirkland

    You’ve hit a new low Microsoft. This was originally announced with a PRESS RELEASE as

    “The month rounds out with the biggest hit singles at the lowest prices, with 50% discounts on the top 10 downloadable songs from ‘Guitar Hero World Tour.’”

    See press release here:
    http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/20879/Xbox-Live-Takes-September-by-Storm/

    FAIL!

  • Anonymous

    PSN members get 25 songs off for $1.50, while we get only 10 AND we pay for Xbox Live. I feel like I get ripped off everytime.

  • MyJewlzHurt

    And this is why I bought a PS3….and using it more than my 360. Got tired of the crap MS is pulling towards it’s members, and I am sure I am not the only one who has purchased a PS3 recently…..I am not saying Sony is perfect, but I am enjoying it more, not the online gaming, although I haven’t had an issue with it, but I am mostly the type who plays offline.

  • SalamanderSkill

    Surely MS could learn a little from Steam specials?
    Most of the ‘deals’ are horrible to say the least. MS are more stingy than the US on the price of oil.

  • Spartan3179

    The original press release said 50% off, not 25%. I was going to buy all the tracks I didnt have (8 of the 10) but since you have changed the deal then ill have to reconsider, especially considering how sick of music games most people are. Seriously, who comes up with these deals of the week?

  • Exu

    See, now the PSN deal wipes the floor with this. Same price, more choice.
    If the songs here were 50% off then things would balance out nicely.
    Do what you did with Puzzle Quest, offer the same content at a LOWER PRICE than other platforms.
    —
    I feel for you Major, the commenters are gonna have a field day when L4D Crash Course is out and we are asked to pay for it while PC owners enjoy it for free.

  • Yukon Cornelius

    To my fellow Xbox Live members, here’s the track packs that each of the discounted songs belong to. Even with the crappy 25% off savings, you’ll still do better to pick up these songs individually, if you think you want their track packs, since the savings this week will still have you break even if you buy the other 2 songs individually (120sale + 160reg + 160reg = 440reg).

    Here’s the track packs:
    =======================
    Travis Barker – Low … found within “Travis Barker Track Pack”
    Blink 182 – What’s My Age Again … found within “Travis Barker Track Pack”
    The Killers – Mr. Brightside … found within “The Killers Track Pack”
    Ram Jam – Black Betty … found within “Southern Rock Track Pack”
    Queen – We Are The Champions … found within “Queen Track Pack”
    Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 … found within “Smashing Pumpkins Track Pack”
    Nickelback – Because of You … found within “Hard Rock Track Pack”
    Foreigner – Hot Blooded … no track pack avail.
    Blind Melon – No Rain … no track pack avail.
    Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl … no track pack avail.

  • wolfzero01

    this has got to be one of the worst deals of the week. even if I had WT or GH5 I wouldn’t get these songs as except for the Queen song they suck. also like some of the articles on various sites were saying weren’t these going to be 50% not 25% off? talk about pulling a fast one on your customers

  • Exu

    No word on the 25/50% ballsup? No? Not saying? Well good luck to you because I wouldn’t have the nerve.

  • xZepher

    THIS SHIT SUCKS

  • xZepher

    We pay for LIVE and this is the crap that they give us? Fuuuck YOU MS and Larry HERB, You’re a dick.

  • Gambit3rd

    Sad to see the Major not answering to our complains.
    I feel so lonely thanks to this policy.

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