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The song Space Oddity is being removed from Alan Wake (2010)
John Bilbo
Member
Mods will rise
shoplifter
Member
Guess that license in perpetuity was too costly
jshackles
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For console users it's
"Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing you can do......."
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
I guess that's the reason why GOG's great - download the current version and call it good.
This is, to be clear, completely stupid. Yes, I know how licensing works. I don't care. Fuck Remedy, and fuck the "all-digital future."
This is, to be clear, completely stupid. Yes, I know how licensing works. I don't care. Fuck Remedy, and fuck the "all-digital future."
Puscifer
Member
You can do it if you wanna bother. I'm doing it with Risk of Rain 2, gearbox utterly broke the games code
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
Everyone's going to go out and buy the song.
I assume it's going to make a lot of money now that it's been removed from being attached to something.
I wouldn't buy a song if it's attached to something else like a movie, TV show or Game.
I think thats the reasoning for these licences expirations.
I assume it's going to make a lot of money now that it's been removed from being attached to something.
I wouldn't buy a song if it's attached to something else like a movie, TV show or Game.
I think thats the reasoning for these licences expirations.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
The easy way to do this right is to just delist it. People who already have it, have it.
Relist it again with the update as a different SKU.
Really shit way to do this and change people's game they already have. Totally unacceptable.
Relist it again with the update as a different SKU.
Really shit way to do this and change people's game they already have. Totally unacceptable.
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fart town usa
Member
"There's a liiiiicense that's recently retired, we'd like the hear the song still, but the fees are too damn high..."
Muffdraul
Member
So sick of this shit. Whether it's the publisher being too cheap to pony up for a perpetual license or the copyright holders being too greedy in their demands, someone needs to get dragged for this crap. Breaks my heart whenever I start a new game of GTA4 and Schweine is no longer the first song you hear on the car radio as Niko drives Roman to the apt for the first time. 
Sushi_Combo
Member
Maybe it's depending on the platform but that song is still available when I fire up GTAIV on Ps3.So sick of this shit. Whether it's the publisher being too cheap to pony up for a perpetual license or the copyright holders being too greedy in their demands, someone needs to get dragged for this crap. Breaks my heart whenever I start a new game of GTA4 and Schweine is no longer the first song you hear on the car radio as Niko drives Roman to the apt for the first time.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Nah fuck the music licensing people, blaming Remedy is some bullshit. There are so many TV shows that have effectively disappeared (legally) because they feature a bunch of licensed music and the cost to renegotiate disc and/or streaming rights is too much.
At least the game will continue to exist.
Muffdraul
Member
A ton of songs were removed from GTA4 on its 10 year anniversary because R* let the licenses expire. Maybe you're still legally entitled to the songs if you have the physical disc? I've had GTA4 digitally on 360 since 2010.
Many of the songs I don't give two shits about, but Schweine is like a GTA4 signature song IMO. Whoever decided to let that one go, what an asshole. Like R* couldn't afford whatever the copyright holder was asking.
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Sushi_Combo
Member
Yeah that's it, I still have my physical copy and no new updates are available so I guess they didn't bother with the 360/Ps3 physical releases.
Badlucktroll
Member
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
Fucken idiots. If someone makes a game they can license my band for $10 and have the rights forever. I just want to make enough for a coffee and pack of strings.
Skyfox
Member
How do you do this?
I remember Borderlands 2 music got removed from the Remastered first and the 360 version later on, damn! This made me forget the adrenaline rush in my blood, it destroyed what made this game magical.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Does $10 really cover that? Wouldn't here in Sweden I'm pretty sure.
scoobidoo112
Member
This shit should be illegal.
An expired license should apply to newly sold copies of the game, not one that I already own.
An expired license should apply to newly sold copies of the game, not one that I already own.
Dirk Benedict
Member
The writing on the wall was at the start of last gen.
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Trippy
Member
I actually started replaying Alan Wake yesterday. And my reason for choosing to replay the OG version rather than buy the Remastered was the assumption that there would have been some fuckery with music being removed from the remaster.
Don’t see why content should ever been patched out of a game.
Don’t see why content should ever been patched out of a game.
BbMajor7th
Member
Such a flagrant case of 'because we can'. The more that technology makes possible, the more 'because we can' you'll have to put up with.
Toots
Gold Member
This is Major Tom to Patch Control...
You've really made a mess...
And the players don't want to listen to the shite you played...
Now it's time to do a good job, if you dare. (and give back the original version to those who bought it)
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VulcanRaven
Member
Does this affect the original Xbox 360 version that is backwards compatible on One/Series X and S?
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Toots
Gold Member
Backwards compatible means you play it from a disk or am i missing something ?
I guess they could add a patch to fuck this version too but if so you just play the disk version without updating.
VulcanRaven
Member
Yes but the digital version can be bought from the Xbox Store too. Its separate from the remaster. Both are there.
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Toots
Gold Member
I guess if you have the digital version you're screwed, if they roll out patches to scrub the song out, it will be out of every digital versions.
NeverYouMind
Member
While it does not play in the intro, I am able to play it (and many others with random shuffling) with a background mp3 player on Series S. Also plays when outside a vehicle, which Rockstar never bothered to add to their games (Is a portable radio so hard to implement?). It is awesome in contrast to the trash they put in it's place.
Toots
Gold Member
Too expensive for the xbox division after such an abysmal series s/x gen.
Ninja cat squads are currently being deployed to everyone's home to scratch their discs as we speak.
I think Bill Gates will just point his secret 10G tower towards every Xbox worldwide, erasing all traces of the song in the first place by directly rewriting each console dna.
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Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
Still shocked that this is legal. Imagine buying a digital movie with some licensed songs and 10 years from now they remove 3 of them, so the entire scene is affected, and more importantly, what you paid for is no longer what you paid for.
Fuck digital.
Fuck digital.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
At least they’re not just pulling the game from sale like lots of devs would
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
yeah that's a good point about movies. i wonder how long before this masterpiece gets pulled from sale, because you know damn well Square/ Team Ninja won't patch it.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
They just stop printing the movies when the rights expire. Then you have to go find an exorbitantly priced DVD or Bluray if you are lucky. Some TV shows don't have any physical or digital release at all, the only option is to watch someone's old Tivo rip with ads and station overlays.
VulcanRaven
Member
I think Return of the Living Dead has had some music replaced.
NeverYouMind
Member
When the credits rolled I was baffled to hear Frank Sinatra! What a game. I am still playing it. A great combat system and the best enemies and maps in their Nioh styled games. I want Team Ninja to do a full on sequel.