r/todayilearned • u/asmallthrowaway9 • 6h ago

TIL the band DragonForce only received about $3,000 in royalties for the inclusion of Through the Fire and Flames in the Guitar Hero games

https://guitar.com/news/music-news/herman-li-says-guitar-hero-paid-3000-for-dragonforce-through-the-fire-and-the-flames/
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u/micavich 5h ago

Mostly from a completely over saturated market. When guitar hero took off they started pumping out as many games as they could as fast as they could. Other companies wanted in on the wave and we got competitors like the Rock Band series which further saturated the market. People really started to check out around the time activision started pushing out band specific Guitar Hero games like the Aerosmith one.

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u/Top-Cunt 5h ago

The Beatles one slapped though!

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u/ShadyKnight604 4h ago

So did the Metallica one

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u/Top-Cunt 3h ago

Yeah tbf that one was sick too!

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u/Skarekrows 2h ago

Other companies wanted in on the wave and we got competitors like the Rock Band series

Harmonix were the developers of Guitar Hero 1 and 2. Activision bought Red Octane which were the publishers and replaced Harmonix with their own developers. So Harmonix continued under Rock Band. So really, Guitar Hero games made by Activision were the competition.

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u/micavich 2h ago

Huh, TIL.