darknessmoon
11-29-2007, 04:26 AM
In the end, it all boils down to money. “It's no problem to just put it in as DLC and if you want it, get it, and if you don't, then don't" is so much easier said than done; it’s much more complex than that.
First off, you need a band's permission to use their song; whether it be for a commercial, a movie, a game, etc. (I don't know how hard it is to get that permission, but I do know it involves a lot of paperwork).
Second: Royalties. As far as royalties go, I believe that there are many different ways to go about this depending on the contract that comes with the permission to use a song. It could be a flat fee or it could be off of a certain percentage that is gained as profit from use of the song, etc.
Third: Time = Money. After gaining permission and discussing the royalties and what not, the song must be modified in order to play with the game. Well, not necessarily modifying the song itself (unless needed to and allowed by the band), but I mean adding in the “Rock Band components” for it to be playable with the game. It doesn’t seem entirely easy to make any song available. It’s obviously going to go through testing processes in order for it to play well with the game.
Considering all the factors I just mentioned above, I imagine that any song they pick to go into the game has to go through a long process involving paperwork, money (we don’t know Harmonix’s budget), and time to prep the song for the game. Whatever songs they choose would have to be something that would have to be beneficial to their time and money as the developers and to us as the consumers. If they were to see it as not being profitable, then it probably wouldn’t be beneficial to them to go through the hassle of what I mentioned above to make a song available for DLC “just because” and for only a few people to download them.
There could be many, many reasons, and none of us know neither what those reasons are nor what the exact process is, and because of that, all that we can do, as fans and consumers, is to ask, to request, and to hope that they can make it available for us. We can’t say that they will never put “so-and-so” in “cuz they are teh suxxorz.” Hell, I think Fall Out Boy sucks, yet they put it in the game. There are obviously enough people out there who like them for them to have been put in the game.
Alls I’m saying is, it’s not as easy as many of you may think…
And besides, the game IS called ROCKBAND, as many people here have stated. Doesn't the game itself say, "Live your Rock Star Fantasies!" or something like that, on the box? Why would anyone try to make Harmonix go through all the BS to put in music not related to the game?
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First off, you need a band's permission to use their song; whether it be for a commercial, a movie, a game, etc. (I don't know how hard it is to get that permission, but I do know it involves a lot of paperwork).
Second: Royalties. As far as royalties go, I believe that there are many different ways to go about this depending on the contract that comes with the permission to use a song. It could be a flat fee or it could be off of a certain percentage that is gained as profit from use of the song, etc.
Third: Time = Money. After gaining permission and discussing the royalties and what not, the song must be modified in order to play with the game. Well, not necessarily modifying the song itself (unless needed to and allowed by the band), but I mean adding in the “Rock Band components” for it to be playable with the game. It doesn’t seem entirely easy to make any song available. It’s obviously going to go through testing processes in order for it to play well with the game.
Considering all the factors I just mentioned above, I imagine that any song they pick to go into the game has to go through a long process involving paperwork, money (we don’t know Harmonix’s budget), and time to prep the song for the game. Whatever songs they choose would have to be something that would have to be beneficial to their time and money as the developers and to us as the consumers. If they were to see it as not being profitable, then it probably wouldn’t be beneficial to them to go through the hassle of what I mentioned above to make a song available for DLC “just because” and for only a few people to download them.
There could be many, many reasons, and none of us know neither what those reasons are nor what the exact process is, and because of that, all that we can do, as fans and consumers, is to ask, to request, and to hope that they can make it available for us. We can’t say that they will never put “so-and-so” in “cuz they are teh suxxorz.” Hell, I think Fall Out Boy sucks, yet they put it in the game. There are obviously enough people out there who like them for them to have been put in the game.
Alls I’m saying is, it’s not as easy as many of you may think…
And besides, the game IS called ROCKBAND, as many people here have stated. Doesn't the game itself say, "Live your Rock Star Fantasies!" or something like that, on the box? Why would anyone try to make Harmonix go through all the BS to put in music not related to the game?
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