Nintendo Wii Fanboy

I got mine yesterday to. It's in the mail this morning. I love the game, but I am a little busy with life these days, so I think by the time I get around to playing again, the new one will be here. :) At least that's what I hope.

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Well this is good news. Hopefully the replacement disc also fixes the lockups I was experiencing. It seemed like 15-20% of the time, the game would freeze on me.

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I have not received it yet, however, I have received plenty of spam thanks to Activision mailing scores of us in groups and not individually. Because they put us all in the "To:" field, we've all been receiving unholy amounts of unwanted junk. Thumbs up, Activision. Send me a second guitar.

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I have not received mine yet but ny brother in law has. 3 -4 WEEKS, seems like a long time, i feel like some other compensation may be in order. i payed $90 for something i did not get and now if i want it i have to give it up for a month????

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Dude,
I'm with you, Read my post below yours!!

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Got it yesterday too... I played until the last possible moment (I DO have to go to work to pay for these) and it's in the mailbox... W00T.

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I got it, but I don't like this 4 week turn around time.

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Got mine too, and I really don't care how long it takes. I've been playing MoH:H2 online, LoZ:TP, MSC, Super Paper Mario, etc. So, by the time I get it back I'll have brawl (hopefully) and that will leave me with less time to think about it. Anybody else pissed though that NOW they're making Rock Band for the Wii, AFTER some of us already bought GHIII, not thinking they would make RB for the Wii? Cuz I am! If the GHIII controller doesn't work with RB, then I'll be even more pissed!

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Oh, and it's not exactly a "pre-paid" envelope if they just stick 2 regular stamps on it. The USPS has new rules requiring you bring envelopes over a certain size or weight to a post office to have stamped by a USPS employee. If these mailers violate the new rules, which in my family's experience aren't uniformly enforced, and you just drop it in your mailbox, then the disk could be returned to you after a week of the post office dicking around with it.

Activision's a big company. They could have sprung for pre-paid, pre-sorted mail stamps on their envelopes. Instead they got some poor intern to put a bunch of stamps on envelopes.

Any more news on those guys that were filling a class action lawsuit? The longer all this takes to be resolved the more frustrated I'm getting with how poorly this is being handled.

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TAKE PICTURES as evidence.

Got my mailer - which is addressed to "Guitar Hero III disk replacement program" and says "disk mailer" on the envelope. How many of those do you think might not make it there? And, Activision won't process a new disk until/unless they receive the original.

So, take lots of pics to document that you had a disk, that you put it in the mailer, etc., in case it grows legs along the way.

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has there been any news of replacement discs for GH3 UK (europe) edition??

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That's easy. I just got myself a PS3 copy instead when I realized that my Wii copy lacked surround sound.

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Not yet .. hopefully soon

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unfortunately i havent got £369.99 just lying around to go get me a PS3 + GH3...... i'll just persevere untill news of a replacement! hopefully by that time, ill be past SLIPKNOT on hard...........which at the moment is driving me crazy!!!

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Man, this is such crap. I got GH3 yesterday and I totally forgot about the lack of surround but I could really tell when I went to play the game. Activision definitely doesn't think very highly of us Wii owners, I mean c'mon, why didn't they release a second guitar for sale when the package came out? Now I have to wait until the end of this month to play co-op. Man, I am so tired of developers screwing people who own a Wii. Crappy PS2 ports, half-hearted games and now this crap, ugh.

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I'm curious about the original post that says "were you one of the folks who are in need of a replacement disc?" Doesn't everyone need a replacement?

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I bought Guitar Hero and GHII for PS2. I bought GHIII and Rock Band for the 360. I haven't had any sound problems...

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This is horrible service. They should have retail outlets allowing the exchange such as gamestop,bestbuy, and circuit city. Three to four weeks wait and a mailer that says, "STEAL THIS GAME" Thanks but looks like I'll be living in a mono tone world.

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Unlikely Ending: Hey, here is your disk back. Sorry for the problems: Here is the free DLC and some Velvet Revolver/Foo Fighters DLC too!

Good Ending: Hey, here is your disk back. Sorry for the problems: Here is the free DLC!

Ok Ending: Hey, here is your disk back.

Bad Ending: We never recieved your disk.

One can DREAM for the unlikely ending, but I could see the Good ending being very possible, since the DLC is free anyway. The OK ending is more probable, though.

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I'm willing to forget the whole issue if my disc magically expanded it's song library.

*cough* Velvet Revolver song pack *cough*

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Bought mine from Toys-R-Us last sunday. I really don't know if it's in stereo now, or if I'd like it to be so I imagine it is. Honestly though, I can't see the company making a horrible decision like that TWICE. Either that, or I'd hope whoever decided to push it through without stereo in the first place was fired. On the issue of DLC though, I figured it never had it, and they had no plans on adding that feature in the future.

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What the fuck?

I signed up to get notified about when the replacements were going to be available, and I never got that notification...instead I'm finding out from the blogs...

Thanks a lump, Activision...

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I just signed up for my replacement package today. I bought my 1st GH3 copy on release day.
Since this week, Toys R Us has them on sale for $70, and I still had my Mario Galaxy $25 Gift Card to make it that much cheaper, I bought a 2nd one (for $50!).

This is not too bad a deal at all since for just $10 more than the ($60) stand-alone guitar that is due out in a couple weeks, you also get a second copy to hold you over while they swap out the 1st bad copy. Plus you can ebay the spare copy once you get the good (replacement) one.

If I didn't have a 2nd copy, I would be calling and demanding that they send a pre-ship swap out for their complete screw up. Going without the game for however long it takes them is not acceptable. AT ALL.

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For the people who have received their mailers, can you post what your status is listed at the tracking site?
http://activision.rebatestatus.com/search.aspx

I haven't received my mailer yet (though it may be in the mail already) and my status is:
"We have received your submission and it is being processed. Submission status information is updated daily. Please continue to check this website to find the mail date for your submission."

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I got my remastered disc back from Activision today (2/29) and also picked up an extra guitar at Gamestop now that they're finally available. It was about a 16 day turnaround time since I mailed the original disc to them on 2/13. The new disc sounds great and my original save file was recognized without any problems.

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