RockBand.com

  • 01-28-2013 12:35 AM
    Bobman32x
    "Buy DLC" Links via RockBand.com for PS3?
    Now that the Playstation Store is accessible from any internet browser, do you think HMX should add links to download the song for the PS3 aswell as the 360 from the song's song page? I would love if they did. usually Id word this better, but right now Im having a total vocabulary brain fart, so I hope you get the gist of what i mean.
  • 01-28-2013 12:40 AM
    MagicMurderBag7
    It would take a long time to add a link for every song and pack but it would be neat.
  • 01-28-2013 01:47 AM
    DeferredGalaxy3
    I don't think you can have direct links for PSN stuff.

    EDIT: Oh, crap. I just overread the "Online store" part. Well, I don't know. Maybe it might be too much work.
  • 01-28-2013 09:20 AM
    peterock2007
    Highly unlikelyif it requires any kind of work. They've already said they have little to no Rockband resources left.
  • 01-28-2013 10:41 AM
    nuttzo31
    It would be a nice thing to have but it's hardly essential.

    Just having a decent online store that you can purchase from without dropouts and no longer having to use that terrible psn store on the console is good enough.
  • 01-28-2013 11:51 AM
    PlatStrat
    It would take a long time to copy-paste some links to their songs? I highly doubt that. Once the links were up and running it would take 10 minutes tops.
  • 01-28-2013 12:21 PM
    DavidTLynchEsq
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by PlatStrat View Post
    It would take a long time to copy-paste some links to their songs? I highly doubt that. Once the links were up and running it would take 10 minutes tops.

    It would take a long time to copy-paste about 3,000 links to over 2,800 (?) pages.
  • 01-28-2013 12:42 PM
    HMXLachesis
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by PlatStrat View Post
    It would take a long time to copy-paste some links to their songs? I highly doubt that. Once the links were up and running it would take 10 minutes tops.

    You underestimate the matter significantly, I'm afraid.

    There are 2,740 songs available for sale on PS3. Even if it only took 10 seconds to load the PS3 page, load the HTML for the song page, copy the link, and paste it into RockBand.com, that's still 7.6 hours of work. It would also cause site downtime every Tuesday as we updated the new song pages.

    But that's not how the site is built. (You can tell because we don't have downtime every Tuesday.) Instead, song pages are created dynamically, and the Xbox purchase links on RockBand.com are automatically updated and inserted by a system that is over two years old and is absolutely not compatible with the new PS3 online store.

    Consequently, we'd have to redesign the song page (to accommodate the new buy link), rebuild the song page (to include the new buy link), and then build an entirely new back end system to pull song links off the PS3 online store and insert them into the new song page. We would also have to build an explanation popup (as you can see on the Xbox purchase) And then we'd have to QA everything.

    In sum, this would require work from at least 5 people, and rather a bit more than 10 minutes.
  • 01-28-2013 02:49 PM
    HairyMan
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by HMXLachesis View Post
    You underestimate the matter significantly, I'm afraid.

    There are 2,740 songs available for sale on PS3. Even if it only took 10 seconds to load the PS3 page, load the HTML for the song page, copy the link, and paste it into RockBand.com, that's still 7.6 hours of work. It would also cause site downtime every Tuesday as we updated the new song pages.

    But that's not how the site is built. (You can tell because we don't have downtime every Tuesday.) Instead, song pages are created dynamically, and the Xbox purchase links on RockBand.com are automatically updated and inserted by a system that is over two years old and is absolutely not compatible with the new PS3 online store.

    Consequently, we'd have to redesign the song page (to accommodate the new buy link), rebuild the song page (to include the new buy link), and then build an entirely new back end system to pull song links off the PS3 online store and insert them into the new song page. We would also have to build an explanation popup (as you can see on the Xbox purchase) And then we'd have to QA everything.

    In sum, this would require work from at least 5 people, and rather a bit more than 10 minutes.

    So you're saying there's a chance............... ;) :p :D
  • 01-28-2013 03:19 PM
    Bobman32x
    haha. Explanation received, hope lost:p