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Today "Lego Rock Band" was announced. Check out the reactions from the developers inside and outside Harmonix.
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Robeyonekenobi - 2:00pm EST: Man I love it when it's sunny outside and you have to work on UI design. Come on Golf gods! Save me!!!
-- Justin Robey - Producer and Co-host of the official MGS Platform Biased podcast, Microsoft Game Studios
ChrisA9 - 12:00pm EST: Every time a game franchise is milked and the audience blindly accepts it a piece of me dies inside. At this rate I should be dead by Fall.
-- Christian Arca - Lead Designer, Agora Games
djaffe - 12:00pm EST: playing thru the single plyr of Killzone 2 and LOVING IT! Reminds me- in a great way- of Medal of Honor: Underground, my fave FPS ever!
-- David Jaffe - "God of War" game director, founder of Eat Sleep Play
SixOkay - 3:00pm EST: How is it that one of the most thoughtful, reasonable commenting conversations I've seen on a website in a while is about Lego Rock Band?
-- Justin - Community Manager for "Gears of War," Microsoft
Lisa_Mason - 2:00pm EST: I'm genuinely curious: Why do people seem to damn pissed that Lego Rock Band exists? Does it sully Rock Band proper or something?
Lisa_Mason - 3:00pm EST: To summarize the @ replies angry about Lego RB: it's for "kids that won't appreciate it," I don't want to look like a Lego, and song list
-- Lisa Mason - Producer, Destineer Studios
LaLaLaLaLemon - 1:00pm EST: LEGO Rock Band? I'm SO there! http://tinyurl.com/d4zku8
-- Meghan Rodberg - Senior Manager of Online Community Relations, Turbine
Weezul - 1:00pm EST: Lego Rock Band? I don't get it
- Jon - Online Marketing Manager, Electronic Arts
sargonas - 12:00pm EST: Rock on! Lego Rockband announced, featuring Final Countdown!!!
-- J Eckert - Operations Manager for Rupture, Electronic Arts
JurieOnGames - 12:00pm EST: Lego Rock Band? Cool... too bad it won't be playable in Europe, unless you are seriously rich.
JurieOnGames - 12:00pm EST: I just realized I don't know *anyone* in Europe who owns Rock Band, and I know some crazy people who buy expensive imports / music games.
-- Jurie Horneman - freelance game designer/producer
zerojay - 11:00am EST: So, Lego Rock Band is officially confirmed. I'm falling to pieces about the announcement, ha-ha-haaaaaaa.
-- Jason Carter - Data manager, Longtail Studios
HMXCasey - 11:00am EST: I have litterally thousands of Legos at my desk. LEGO ROCK BAND. Believe.
-- Casey Malone - Designer/Cake-lover, Harmonix
jchausse - 9:00am EST: LEGO Rock Band is official! Finally, I can say: No one's "bleeding the franchise" - it's got real Harmonix DNA and will be awesome!
-- Jeff Chausse - Wed director, Harmonix
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