Guitar Hero III mono case dismissed in court

If you’ve been following the entire mess of Activision being sued because of a certain glitch that makes the audio of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC) come out of your sound system as mono, you’ll be glad to know that the company that brought us the rhythm game has another legal cloud erased from its skies. Yes, that’s right – the lawsuit has been dismissed. All the details at the full article.

If you were curious about how the whole Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC) debacle over the Wii version turned out, then here’s a timely update: it seems that the class action lawsuit suing Activision has been dismissed, with both parties agreeing to a compromise. All’s well that ends well.

For those of us not familiar with the case, the lawsuit stemmed from the Wii version of the world-famous rhythm game having quite the ironic glitch: that it boomed out mono sound regardless of your sound system, instead of the Dolby Pro Logic II Surround Sound joy printed on the box. This naturally irked quite a few customers, and prompted Activision to replace the defective games with new, multi-channel-enabled copies.

Of course, the replacement program wasn’t quite enough to cool down a certain Samuel Livingston from San Diego, and thus the lawsuit was born. And thus it is laid to rest, in light of an agreement made between Activision’s and Livingston’s lawyers.

What made the compromise possible? Pretty much two sides deciding to sit around a table and talk things out, with the premise that neither wanted to spend an absurd amount of time or money arguing a case that could go on for quite a while. Thus, they agreed to simply settle on a mutual agreement. Very nice, indeed.

While it’s certainly interesting to see litigation in video games, it’s also good to know that people aren’t as unreasonable as lawsuits make them out to be. Updates as we get them.