You sure about that?

Keep in mind the situation with some of the oldest XBLA titles, Midway arcade ports like Smash TV and such. Midway's gone and the rights are in a weird limbo (though actually...

By the former, do you mean that you're still currently offline?

I mention this because, if you at some point previously had switched systems, either from buying a new Xbox or by having to send...

There absolutely is an example, Somebody To Love (RB3 Version). The Guitar chart was almost entirely keys in the first release, and the RB3 version pares the guitar down just to the guitar parts,...

It doesn't matter how long you have a poll posted for, it's not going to change the underlying fact of what I was saying there. The people who use this forum are a tiny minority of the userbase in...

Exactly. So, given these limited resources, why would Harmonix waste a spot on releasing a second version of the same song, only with double bass?

Unless, of course, you're talking about...

Sounds good, I'd love some Nirvana!

Sign me up!

Sign me up!

Actually, you're wrong on that. What you should have said was "The "random" HO/POs when the notes change have not been automatically generated since Rock Band 1".

In RB1, HOPOs were defined as...

Without All Instruments Mode, 2 of the 4 slots are reserved for Vocals and Drums, with Bass/Keys/Guitar getting to take the other 2. All Instruments Mode kicks the singer's slot open to allow...

It's probably not something they can patch in. MS' dashboard has a spot for a secondary status like that. A bunch of 360 games use it.

I'm imagining that Sony doesn't have an extra status space...

No, that's how it works on the 360. There, you have the game you're playing, and a second line for status. So it'll say something like:
"Rock Band 3
Playing Guitar on Freebird"

count me in

I don't know the details of what's happening behind the scenes, but I would imagine that:
1) DLC is being loaded in largely the same way as it had in RB1/RB2, but
2) More information for each song...

It's not that it's too much work, it's that it would make Expert unplayable for anyone buying a stock kit. Harmonix isn't stupid enough to render the Expert difficulty unplayable without additional...

Your other option was that you could play your pro guitar/bass online with other people, but the other players you're playing with would see no chart for your part and you would appear to be unscored...

Singing might not be that bad, but I can tell you that it just feels wrong and awful if you try that approach on guitar/bass (and I would well assume keys/drums).

Back in the GH1 and 2 days I...

They're almost assuredly going to have the originals, but they've already said that they don't require stems to work off. They're not isolating the guitar part and dropping it out of the song when...

It's great that you're enjoying that, but you have to remember that by and large the Rock Band experience is still using 5-button guitar/bass. The community of people playing the Pro modes is a...

The key problem with this that you don't seem to quite grasp is that the one who pays for the development and such of artist disc releases, "taking the risk" as you put it, is Harmonix and not the...