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Rockin' peripheral suffers from busted strums

Nov 27, 2007

Our Rock Band guitar is broken. Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth. But it seems we're not the only band suffering this anguish, as the high number of gamers reporting the exact same problem painfully illustrates. But why is the guitar breaking in the first place?

Here's the problem - after a weekend of seriously dedicated play, our guitar has stopped 'registering' the down strums on the strum-bar, making it effectively useless. Surprisingly, the drum kit is fine, despite being on the receiving end of one hell of a pounding now we've finally got to grips with 'hard'.

Harmonix says it's a software issue, issuing a patch when the first breakages started being reported. The gamers say it's a hardware problem, with one forumite going deep into the guitar itself and reporting what appears to be a clear manufacturing error. Meanwhile, EA is offering a returns policy that's getting good reports from complainants.