Anyone else annoyed by Rock Band's censorship?

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#1 AlmightyMax
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I was planning on downloading 'Ten' on Rock Band later this week, but read on IGN that they've cut out the f-bombs. This sort of censorship makes no sense to me. I grew up with 'Ten', and don't want to download it to find they've changed the song around to make it more 'family-friendly'! I mean, I understand using clean versions of the in-game songs to manage a T rating, but that shouldn't be an issue for downloadable content - stick an explicit label on, and you should be good to go. As it is, the censorship is wrecking classics like 'Ten', and ensuring some great music isn't going to be able to get on without being changed fundamentally.

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#2 ash918273
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The thing that annoys me is that the Rock band 2 instruments arn't available in the UK...Whats up with that?!?!?

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#3 Steameffekt
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The thing that annoys me is that the Rock band 2 instruments arn't available in the UK...Whats up with that?!?!?

ash918273

Get used to it.

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#4 ash918273
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[QUOTE="ash918273"]

The thing that annoys me is that the Rock band 2 instruments arn't available in the UK...Whats up with that?!?!?

Steameffekt

Get used to it.

Wow...whats up with that?

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I play RB with my 9 year old sister, so I appreciate it. We can't play Guitar Hero as a family because they don't censor as much. It just opens things up to a wider audience. I like your "explicit" tag idea, though. Perhaps you should email customer support @ Harmonix and suggest selling both an explicit and censored version of songs like that?
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#6 SapSacPrime
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[QUOTE="SkylinePigeon"]I play RB with my 9 year old sister, so I appreciate it. We can't play Guitar Hero as a family because they don't censor as much. It just opens things up to a wider audience. I like your "explicit" tag idea, though. Perhaps you should email customer support @ Harmonix and suggest selling both an explicit and censored version of songs like that?

They could offer it in options with a patch :)