Please make song selection for compettive online play alternate

[NattyLight]

What inevitably ends up happening in both score duel and tug of war is that the leader just picks the songs that he is better at. The leader is at a distinct advantage. Please make it so that the song selection alternates or at least the have one person pick the song but the other person pick the skill level.

[shoombabi]

I don't understand this. You play Player Matches because you're not concerned about your leaderboard rank. But yet, the Ranked matches make it so that nobody picks and it's fair to everyone involved. If you don't care about your rank, why not just enter the Ranked play and not worry about this?

[NattyLight]

I don't understand this.

I have the PS3 version

[dfjdejulio]

I have the PS3 version
Dang, I've really been trying to be fair and trying to hold the opinion that the PS3 version deep down must be just as good as the XBox version, but the more I hear about what you poor PS3 folks are going through on basically every front... man, I'm so sorry...

[AgainstOne]

I have the PS3 version

what do you expect then? all you PS3 people are always going on and on and on about how much better it is to have FREE online play while us Xbox-Livers keep contending that "you get what you pay for".

but you guys always come back with some stupid comment about how PS3 online is just as good. is it feeling just as good to you now?

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!!

[NattyLight]

stupid fanboy post



What are you talking about. this has nothing to do with the PSN and everything to do with HMX. HMX made the game. There is no flaw in the PSN side of it. The flaw is that the game was designed so that one person can always pick the same song.

Go eat more paint

[AgainstOne]

What are you talking about. this has nothing to do with the PSN and everything to do with HMX. HMX made the game. There is no flaw in the PSN side of it. The flaw is that the game was designed so that one person can always pick the same song.

Go eat more paint

really, it's not like that in the 360 version? well, then...

HAHAHAHAHA

Harmonix hates PS3 owners!!!

[Parodygm]

Good game AgainstOne... I paid for a PS3 and I paid for a version of Rock Band which should be able to include all of the same features that the 360 version contains but simply doesn't take advantage of the potential of the platform.

What exactly is it that you're talking about?

[Electric_Zen]

Is the issue that the PS3 version just doesn't support ranked online play? Or it does, but it doesn't randomize the song choices?

[Parodygm]

One issue is that there's no voice chat. It's not like we can even debate the song choice.

[AgainstOne]

I paid for a PS3 and I paid for a version of Rock Band which should be able to include all of the same features that the 360 version contains

yes, it obviously should. i can't understand why it wouldn't be the same out of the box. at the very least, those missing features should have been patched in by now (hence the joke about Harmonix hating PS3 owners).


One issue is that there's no voice chat. It's not like we can even debate the song choice.

that is totally lame

[Shayde21]

Dang, I've really been trying to be fair and trying to hold the opinion that the PS3 version deep down must be just as good as the XBox version, but the more I hear about what you poor PS3 folks are going through on basically every front... man, I'm so sorry...

They bought a PS3... they had to know the suck was coming.

[cg5686]

I'm very much in the same boat as I'm also a PS3 owner (by the way, before anyone says anything, I think my PS3 is great, so don't even go there).

To address an earlier question, the PSN is very much capable of ranked matches (see Resistance, Warhawk, et al), it just seems that HMX dropped the ball here. I mean it works, but it seems odd that only one person gets to pick songs and there's no means of talking to people.

Example: I played online Band Quickplay with two of my friends and, seeing as we have no 4th member (PS3 = no bass), we went online. Well we got teamed up with an awesome guitarist and blew away some songs (the two of us were both hitting upper 90's on expert. And yes, that's me stroking my ego.). When I play co-op online, I always think its cool (and courteous) to switch off between Bass and Guitar, because let's face it, on some songs playing the Bass sucks, but that's the fair thing to do. He caught on to what I was doing and went with it. I know it's not imperative that I tell him 'Thanks', but it would have been cool (ps - G-rad, if you read these boards, thanks.).

Part of me is wondering though if this issue is addressed in the much talked about but never seen mythological beast known as the "PS3 Patch". In all seriousness though, Sean said earlier that the patch has been ready for sometime but something is holding it up (which we're all assuming is the Les Paul). So, who knows. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

[ChaosElement]

Geez Harmonix, at least try to fix some of the problems on the PS3 version

[mightymech]

I agree as a ps3 owner I feel completely like a dog sometimes. There is just no excuse not to have voice chat or for that matter any kind of communication possible between players in a online game. This is nothing but lazy programing plain and simple.

[drno830]

Geez Harmonix, at least try to fix some of the problems on the PS3 version

They would never try to do somethings like that with a patch or something...


I agree as a ps3 owner I feel completely like a dog sometimes. There is just no excuse not to have voice chat or for that matter any kind of communication possible between players in a online game. This is nothing but lazy programing plain and simple.

That is lazy programming on Sony's part for not standardizing a chat system. I own a PS3, so this is by no means console flaming