so yeah, just saw this in the software support section of the forums, but seems appropriate to put it in here as well for those who don't look there:

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showt...=1#post4899383

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Originally Posted by hmxhenry

Afternoon all. Quick update: the fix has been tested and fully verified on our end and we're just waiting for senior sign off to roll it out. The brief forum outage today ate into our time a bit, and rather than launch this late in the day we'll likely punt until tomorrow. I'll check in first thing to see if we can get this rolled out as quickly as possible. Thanks for your continued patience.

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Nice! I don't have 1,000 songs yet (nor have I played all of my ~800 songs) but it's good to see this fixed both for you guys, and for me when I finally get to that point.

Best News! Wonder if it's a patch or on the server end? At least it has given me the excuse to go back and gold all of my songs before hitting the cap

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Best News! Wonder if it's a patch or on the server end? At least it has given me the excuse to go back and gold all of my songs before hitting the cap

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I think it's server end because you could play the songs offline just fine, but online with powerups was causing problems.

It's on the server side, they applied the fix directly to the affected users accounts. When you log into Blitz you see a message letting you know Update on your Game Data. But just to be clear everyone who has 1000+ songs will encounter this fix if you play them all. Once the fix is applied to your account, your stars on your system are reset. So it looks like you have not played any songs at first glance. It will show you on the right hand side of the screen if you had played and RBW still shows your stars.

another post by Henry explaining what the fix does exactly: http://www.rockband.com/forums/showt...=1#post4900046

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Hey all! So from what we've been able to verify on the dev servers, the fix should have been rolled out. We'll track live feedback here in this thread to make sure everything is working as intended on the user side.

To recap, what's happened is that affected users have generated a save data file that is larger than the servers are able to gracefully process. This file size is loosely tied to the number of unique songs played in Blitz (as many of you noticed it around the 1,020 song mark), but that's not a hard set number as there are other factors contributing the the save data file.

What we've done is roll out a server side fix that eliminates some of the burden on the save data file. This should allow previously affected users to play and log scores just as they had been able to previously. The only drawback is that affected users will no longer be able to see their in menu star count. At first glance it may appear that star data has disappeared, but rest assured that your stars, scores, leaderboard rankings, career score, coins and cred should all be exactly as they were previously.

Your star count should still be fully visible on Rock Band World on Facebook, and your score should still display in the Global Ranking pane to the right of your setlist. All that data is still being stored server side and should still be viewable everywhere except as stars in your setlist.

For those of you that have already been affected, you should be able to sign in and play again now. Give that a shot, let me know how it goes and I'll pass feedback along. Next steps for those of you unaffected or soon to be affected should be pretty painless: just wait. At around the 950 songs played mark you'll receive an inbox message letting you know that you're approaching this save data issue. You'll receive another message around the 1,000 song mark informing you that we've applied the server side fix to your account. That should mean no further interruptions in game play for anyone else creeping up on this.

I hope that adequately explains the situation. Fire up Blitz and play a few songs when you have the chance and let me know if everything is working as intended. We'll continue to track here as well as on the server side to make sure that things run smoothly. Thanks again for hanging in there while we developed and tested this fix.

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So once I hit a thousand songs played my precious console based stars will disappear?

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So once I hit a thousand songs played my precious console based stars will disappear?

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Yes, but they'll be preserved server side, on RB World, and in our hearts.

Just to reiterate, your star count still exists, it just won't display in the setlist. All of your previous stars, scores, leaderboard rankings, score war totals, coins and cred should still display as normal as well.

So the stars just simpily don't show up in the game? Are you working on a fix to that?

Well, guess I'll play Blitz to 300, then sit on it until I get the Johnny Cash pack for the Historian Achievement and then...that's it. No more. No point playing if it's just going to purge my local display, especially since my song count is going to grow by roughly 400 as I complete the sale.

It was a fun game before this news, maybe I'll end up playing to 999 or something, but hey, I got more RB3 songs.