Official Discussion - Rock Band Network

[hmxsean]

While this is incredible news, I honestly am getting sick and tired of Microsoft constantly being given preferential treatment.

I wish developers would remember that before there ever was an XBox, it was Sony and the Playstation who were making all their games famous. Would be nice if they were shown some respect instead of just bending over backwards for Microsoft because they constantly throw money at companies in order to get things exclusively.

Whoa. Hold back a little. That has nothing to do with anything like that. This was a massive undertaking requiring significant infrastructure to support both on our side and at the console level. XNA is an existing infrastructure that could actually make this a reality. It has nothing to do with what you're saying. As I said we have been talking to everybody for some time about making this happen. And we will continue to do so. We want this music to be available for everyone.

[hmxsean]

noooo, Sean gave up BBQ for us?

I am your humble (barbecueless) servant.

[afterstasis]

Not to mention that he just skipped Harmonix's free Friday lunch (and today was barbecue!) in order to stay at his desk and answer questions.

with all this nearly unbelievably huge news, this is the first thing i've read today that i'm hesitant to believe as truth.

[skyttskytt]

Not to mention that he just skipped Harmonix's free Friday lunch (and today was barbecue!) in order to stay at his desk and answer questions.

That just means you guys gotta bake him a cake, or pie, or cookies (or all!) and bring them to his desk.

[dweber77]

HMX is trying to work with Sony. The problem is on Sony's end.

It always is. Sony has some complex coding for the PS3. Many a company have decided not to code for the PS3 because of this. It was a risk I took when buying my PS3 which I understood fully upon purchase.

But seriously why complain about it. Just be happy with the fact of what HMX has accomplished and the fact that they will work their hardest to drop this on the PSN as soon as coding can be unstrung and figured out which will probably take a crack team of specialists.

[jonoo24]

What i DON'T like, the price point. Any ware from .50$ to 3.00$? I have a feeling that everyone will release their music at 3$. Also, This does NOTHING with the bands that don't want their songs in RB, although they don't really own them, record label does.

[TheLovelyNoise]

I think after a day like today you should maybe take the next week off Sean, you may need it.

[Tom Imp]

Whoa. Hold back a little. That has nothing to do with anything like that. This was a massive undertaking requiring significant infrastructure to support both on our side and at the console level. XNA is an existing infrastructure that could actually make this a reality. It has nothing to do with what you're saying. As I said we have been talking to everybody for some time about making this happen. And we will continue to do so. We want this music to be available for everyone.

My apologies then.

It's just that this happens way too often and after a while it gets a bit frustrating.

[T-Hybrid]

Thanks for taking all these questions Sean! I have one of my own though, more related to the costs associated with this.

Is the fee that a developer must pay required before ANY work can be done with the creator tools? Because while this sounds like something I'd love to tinker with and see if I could put together something with a few musicians I know...it'd be great if I could do just that (tinker) and not have to worry about fees unless I decided I wanted to try and license the content for use in the game.

You know what I mean right? I'd want to see how hard/easy it would be to put this together before actually investing too much time/money into it.

What i DON'T like, the price point. Any ware from .50$ to 3.00$? I have a feeling that everyone will release their music at 3$.

We haven't seen a piece of $3 DLC yet. I doubt that's going to change any time soon. And besides, if the song is worth $3 people will pay. If not, prices will come down in a BIG hurry.

I actually see more people charging $0.50-$1 per song in the hopes that they can get their name out there and make up the difference in volume.

[kingtonyx]

I am your humble (barbecueless) servant.

we the community should send this man some BBQ!

at this rate, someone needs to get the hookup with Alton Brown and throw HMX a feast of Good Eats proportions!