So a huge part of my job here is to read/respond to all the email we get from fans. If I haven't responded to something you sent a while ago, I apologize, I accidentally deleted a folder and lost some backlog so it may be a few years until you get something back. Most of the time, though, I get back to you in under a week.

A huge amount of emails (I would say the overwhelming majority) are song requests for GH or Rock Band and even the occasional Karaoke Revolution. We also get a lot of requests to make a sequel to Amplitude/Frequency but that is a little out of our hands (Sony owns the rights so they'd have to want to make a sequel, it really is out of our hands.)

What I was trying to get to, though, before it got all tangenty was that we get a lot of requests for songs. I think, since GH1, we have received something akin to 5000 song requests (that is of course eliminating duplicates) which comes to roughly 290 hours of songs people felt strongly enough to advocate. Now a lot of these songs we were already familiar with (yup, we have heard Dragonforce/Metallica/Led Zeppelin/The Beatles/Malmsteen). The rest were by bands maybe we hadn't really heard before, didn't really know, or hadn't released a whole lot.

But we listened. To all of them. A lot. Even the exceptionally bad ones (for a little while anyways). Sometimes they don't make it the whole way up the ladder (for a number of reasons- sometimes they are terrible, sometimes they don't have the right instruments, sometimes the artist is a notorious noodler and the gameplay would suck) and die a fast death. Other times, even if it doesn't make it into the game (which is an article for another time) it turns someone here on to the band who champions them and they get brought up each project.

What I am saying is that we do listen to your suggestions. Sometimes it isn't immediately doable for a number of licensing/legal issues. Other times we maybe just don't agree that it would make a fun level for people (it isn't just about being a song you like, after all), but we always take requests. We do listen to a ton of stuff but we are only, like, 125 people?

In the next couple days we'll be rolling out some extra special sauce that will make this process of telling us what you want way the hell easier (both for us and for you). Keep a look out for it and start coming up with lists of awesomeness you'd like us to consider- it'll probably come in handy.