Though the game was praised as a reinvention of the Guitar Hero series, the game did not sell as well as Activision expected; due to lowered forecasts, Activision let go of about half of FreeStyleGames' developers.[33] In January 2017, Ubisoft acquired FreeStyleGames from Activision, with unclear consequences for the game.[34] Activision shut down GHTV on December 1, 2018, reducing the available songs from almost 500 to the 42 present on-disc.[35][36]