One of the most popular features of Activision's Guitar Hero: World Tour is the option to share and download content created by other users (as well as uploading your own original content), however, the features popularity may take a dive if Activision go through with their latest crazy idea: to charge a subscription fee to access user-created content.The service is currently free to anybody who owns the game (which is being released in Europe on November 7th, and in Australia on November 12th), and has racked up a total of 25,000 user-uploaded tracks since its October 26th launch. This number is expected to rise to 100,000 by the end of 2008.
So, what do you think? Should Activision be able to start charging for a free service once it has got some initial content (for free) from its users?
The whole thing is this: It's not their content. If they are going to charge for people to access other people's files, then they have to pay the creators of the files, just like they pay for the royalties for the songs that come with the game.
What, you mean like Halo 3 map packs? Or the car packs on forza/etc. that cost a random amount of ms points which no matter how hard you try you end up with like 100 ms points left...
I'm cool with this. As long as they pay the creators.
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