Rockstar Games has reportedly attempted to lowball an established band for rights to use one of their songs in Grand Theft Auto 6. The GTA 6 developer is said to have offered a four-digit sum for the privilege, which insulted the band to the point that they opted to make their rejection public.
The fifth numbered entry in Rockstar's long-running open-world action-adventure series incorporates more than 440 songs spread across 16 radio stations. The GTA 6 soundtrack is also expected to feature hundreds of tracks.
The expectations around Grand Theft Auto 6's success are already very high, and rumors suggest that Sony has secured a lucrative deal with the game.
And while its tracklist is more or less a complete unknown at the moment, it would appear that Temptation by British synth-pop band Heaven 17 won't be on it. That's according to Heaven 17 front man Martyn Ware, who took to Twitter on September 7 to reveal that his publisher recently contacted him on behalf of Rockstar about the possibility of making Temptation part of GTA 6's Vice City music scene. Much to his surprise, the company offered only $7,500 in exchange for indefinite rights...
