Should exported LRB songs appear as LRB or DLC?

[SlaveOfAudio]

I have been debating this throughout the forums and few seem to see my point.

When Lego: Rock Band songs are exported into Rock Band 2, they show up as DLC - the same as any other DLC out there. This should not be the case. Like Rock Band 1, they should be tagged as being from a different location.

This includes:
1) Including LRB when sorting by location (RB1, RB2, LRB, DLC).
2) Including a LRB icon next to LRB songs, rather than the DLC arrow.

So, what do you think?

[SonicRocker15X]

I'd like to see one person here who doesn't think they SHOULD be under a LRB category.

[davidshek]

I'd like to see one person here who doesn't think they SHOULD be under a LRB category.

How about a person who doesn't care where they are categorized?

*raises hand*

Obviously there's some reason why HMX didn't implement a separate location or icon for them. We don't know that reason, but that doesn't mean one does not exist.

Them showing up under DLC makes perfect sense, since they ARE downloaded songs, just like all of the other track packs.

[BallisticJunkfood]

Where's the "I don't really care much" button?

[T-Hybrid]

Where's the "I don't really care much" button?

That's my vote. This whole "issue" is annoying as heck. Anybody who has the 45 songs on their HDD knows where they came from...

I know nothing about programming something like this, but to me, why not just do something with Rock Band 2 to display them differently and leave the first game seeing them as DLC? All it would take, one would assume is to just make the game see that one download as a different tier of songs.

The only way for RB2 to read them different is if they have the data in them to be read.

If there's nothing in the song metadata that says "Hey we are from LEGO", then there's nothing the game can do about it. Short of hardcoding the list of 45 songs....and "hardcoding" is often times a dirty word.

I would like more categorizing, yeah. I think we all do. The 20 Bonus Pack was the start of it. 20 random songs interspersed into a huge library and many got lost.

The same could be said for any newly downloaded song.

[sirdeck]

Well, the rock band 2 songs are on-disc songs, they have their own icon.
The rock band 1 songs are on-disc songs, they have their own icon.
The lego rock band songs are on-disc songs, they should also have their own icon.

Of course we know why they don't have their own icon, but that's not a logical reason, it's a technical reason. Logically they should be differenciated from the "normal" dlc.

Lego rock band songs aren't "normal" dlc, unless you are able to download it without a lego rock band export code found in a lego rock band copy ?

I don't know why you are trying to argue in a technical point of vue, that's hmx's developpers problem, as for any software in the world.

Anyway, this issue is not really a big deal

PS : sorry for my poor english, I'm french so I suck in english

[Jixzer]

Well, the rock band 2 songs are on-disc songs, they have their own icon.
The rock band 1 songs are on-disc songs, they have their own icon.
The lego rock band songs are on-disc songs, they should also have their own icon.

Of course we know why they don't have their own icon, but that's not a logical reason, it's a technical reason. Logically they should be differenciated from the "normal" dlc.

Lego rock band songs aren't "normal" dlc, unless you are able to download it without a lego rock band export code found in a lego rock band copy ?

I don't know why you are trying to argue in a technical point of vue, that's hmx's developpers problem, as for any software in the world.

Anyway, this issue is not really a big deal

PS : sorry for my poor english, I'm french so I suck in english

Honestly, your English is better than most of the native speakers here.

[davidshek]

As for the DLC / not DLC argument - are you people crazy? Just because you physically downloaded it doesn't mean that makes it DLC.

Well, yes, it really does. DLC stands for DownLoadable Content (or DownLoaded Content, depending on who you ask). By its very definition, the Lego song pack is DownLoaded Content because you downloaded it.

Well, the rock band 2 songs are on-disc songs, they have their own icon.
The rock band 1 songs are on-disc songs, they have their own icon.
The lego rock band songs are on-disc songs, they should also have their own icon.

Lego rock band songs aren't "normal" dlc, unless you are able to download it without a lego rock band export code found in a lego rock band copy ?

The AC/DC live pack of songs are on-disc songs and are not available through the online stores. They don't have their own icon either. They are also listed as DLC because they too were downloaded songs.

[T-Hybrid]

Well, the rock band 2 songs are on-disc songs, they have their own icon.
The rock band 1 songs are on-disc songs, they have their own icon.
The lego rock band songs are on-disc songs, they should also have their own icon.

Actually the RB2 songs are the only ones "on-disc". The RB1 songs are save files ripped DIRECTLY from the disc. Something LEGO is not.

I've never seen it in my playstation store, that's weird...

You also haven't seen the Country and Metal Track Packs, AC/DC, or the RB-20 pack.

Regardless, this argument is so friggin' petty that it's not even funny. The only people bothered by this are the same people who already know the songs came from LEGO anyway.

[GreenIllusion]

Havent we had several threads about this? They will most likely show up as LRB-songs in RB3, but without a patch for the previous games they cant shop up as anything other than DLC at the moment. There is no LRB-icon in RB2, as it was made AFTER RB2.

Also, I would still like them with their own category, but I highly doubt that it's worth patching...