MTV, you know, the Music Television station that brings you the likes of Laguna Beach, The Hills, and all that Real World vs. Road Rules crap going to buy Harmonix Music Systems [of Guitar Hero and Amplitude fame] for $175 million in cash. 
I have to tell you, reading this news sends a shudder down my spine. According to this article from the New York Times website the "goals of the deal...are broader than putting the MTV logo on a Harmonix game box: for instance, the company wants to offer visitors to its Web sites, its new virtual worlds and its planned mobile services the ability to play along with, or remix, their favorite songs."
I don't know about you, but I remember the old MTV Music Generator games... and they sucked. They actually made me NOT like music for a while. I became very anti-music because of those games and started reading a lot of Edgar Allen Poe's stuff. This is not a lie nor is it an exaggeration. The "Music Generator" game would have been the last in my forray into music or rhythm based games had it not been for Harmonix and Frequency. Frequency restoreth my soul.
But now I'm not so sure about this here acquisition. I hope MTV just buys the company and asks the already installed base of programmers how best to include their [MTV's] stuff into the Harmonix framework and not the other way around... else disaster lies ahead for all of us.
I have to tell you, reading this news sends a shudder down my spine. According to this article from the New York Times website the "goals of the deal...are broader than putting the MTV logo on a Harmonix game box: for instance, the company wants to offer visitors to its Web sites, its new virtual worlds and its planned mobile services the ability to play along with, or remix, their favorite songs."I don't know about you, but I remember the old MTV Music Generator games... and they sucked. They actually made me NOT like music for a while. I became very anti-music because of those games and started reading a lot of Edgar Allen Poe's stuff. This is not a lie nor is it an exaggeration. The "Music Generator" game would have been the last in my forray into music or rhythm based games had it not been for Harmonix and Frequency. Frequency restoreth my soul.
But now I'm not so sure about this here acquisition. I hope MTV just buys the company and asks the already installed base of programmers how best to include their [MTV's] stuff into the Harmonix framework and not the other way around... else disaster lies ahead for all of us.
Labels: Games, Lies, MTV, Ninjasistah
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