Muse DLC. Period.

[Rednaz]

I can see us getting Muse DLC very soon.

Really? I just see the community that posts on the Facebook App want Muse. Want is not greater than licensing.

[mcquiston]

Well, the demand is huge, Harmonix must surely see the $ or £ signs in their eyes, if they charged 400msp per song i'd still buy them.

[RockBandRocker]

I thought it would be fun to make up packs, with each one focusing on one of Rock Band's main instruments (each song has vocals, so there's no vocals specific pack).


Keyboards Pack:

- Sunburn
- Space Dementia
- Megalomania
- Apocalypse Please
- Ruled By Secrecy
- United States Of Eurasia
- I Belong To You
- Exogenesis: Symphony Part II (Cross Pollination)
- Exogenesis: Symphony Part III (Redemption)


Bass Pack:

- Muscle Museum
- Cave
- Showbiz
- New Born
- Darkshines
- Time Is Running Out
- City Of Delusion
- Uprising
- MK Ultra


Drums Pack:

- Uno
- Overdue
- Bliss
- Citizen Erased
- Butterflies and Hurricanes
- Map Of The Problematique
- Invincible
- Assassin
- Unnatural Selection


Guitar Pack:

- Fillip
- Hyper Music
- Plug In Baby
- Micro Cuts
- Sing For Absolution
- Stockholm Syndrome
- Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist
- Knights Of Cydonia


Did this just for fun, too.

“Pop” Songs Pack:

- Feeling Good
- Starlight
- Supermassive Black Hole
- Resistance
- Undisclosed Desires
- Guiding Light

[Wario_Man]

I thought it would be fun to make up packs, with each one focusing on one of Rock Band's main instruments (each song has vocals, so there's no vocals specific pack).


Keyboards Pack:

- Sunburn
- Space Dementia
- Megalomania
- Apocalypse Please
- Ruled By Secrecy
- United States Of Eurasia
- I Belong To You
- Exogenesis: Symphony Part II (Cross Pollination)
- Exogenesis: Symphony Part III (Redemption)


Bass Pack:

- Muscle Museum
- Cave
- Showbiz
- New Born
- Darkshines
- Time Is Running Out
- City Of Delusion
- Uprising
- MK Ultra


Drums Pack:

- Uno
- Overdue
- Bliss
- Citizen Erased
- Butterflies and Hurricanes
- Map Of The Problematique
- Invincible
- Assassin
- Unnatural Selection


Guitar Pack:

- Fillip
- Hyper Music
- Plug In Baby
- Micro Cuts
- Sing For Absolution
- Stockholm Syndrome
- Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist
- Knights Of Cydonia


Did this just for fun, too.

“Pop” Songs Pack:

- Feeling Good
- Starlight
- Supermassive Black Hole
- Resistance
- Undisclosed Desires
- Guiding Light

Looking at that list made my jaw drop in awe! I'd better stop looking through this thread. The anticipation is killing me! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR HARMONIX?!!

[RosaFloydGuy]

I thought it would be fun to make up packs, with each one focusing on one of Rock Band's main instruments (each song has vocals, so there's no vocals specific pack).


Keyboards Pack:

- Sunburn
- Space Dementia
- Megalomania
- Apocalypse Please
- Ruled By Secrecy
- United States Of Eurasia
- I Belong To You
- Exogenesis: Symphony Part II (Cross Pollination)
- Exogenesis: Symphony Part III (Redemption)


Bass Pack:

- Muscle Museum
- Cave
- Showbiz
- New Born
- Darkshines
- Time Is Running Out
- City Of Delusion
- Uprising
- MK Ultra


Drums Pack:

- Uno
- Overdue
- Bliss
- Citizen Erased
- Butterflies and Hurricanes
- Map Of The Problematique
- Invincible
- Assassin
- Unnatural Selection


Guitar Pack:

- Fillip
- Hyper Music
- Plug In Baby
- Micro Cuts
- Sing For Absolution
- Stockholm Syndrome
- Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist
- Knights Of Cydonia


Did this just for fun, too.

“Pop” Songs Pack:

- Feeling Good
- Starlight
- Supermassive Black Hole
- Resistance
- Undisclosed Desires
- Guiding Light

This is amazing. I DEMAND MOAR.

[RockBandRocker]

B-Sides Pack 1

- Fury
- Glorious
- Twin
- Host
- Coma
- Futurism
- Shine
- Eternally Missed


B-Sides Pack 2

- Do We Need This?
- Pink Ego Box
- Con-Science
- Shrinking Universe
- Map Of Your Head
- Nature_1
- Spiral Static
- Easily


B-Sides Pack 3

- Ashamed
- Yes Please
- Crying Shame
- The Groove
- Recess
- Jimmy Kane
- Agitated
- Forced In


Instrumentals Pack

- The Gallery
- Minimum
- Piano Thing
- Execution Commentary**
- Bedroom Acoustics
- Popcorn

**"Execution Commentary" does have vocals, but it's all unintelligible screams.


Alternative Mixes Pack

- Hyper Chondriac Music
- Butterflies and Hurricanes (Additional Guitars Remix)
- Cave (Remix)
- Shine Acoustic
- Assassin (Grand Omega Bosses Edit)


Covers Pack

- Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
- Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
- House Of The Rising Sun
- Man Of Mystery
- Prague


Non-Album Singles Pack

- Dead Star
- In Your World
- Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)


That's it as far as my fantasy packs. Here's hoping one day they won't be a fantasy...

[JrManPT]

“Pop” Songs Pack:

- Feeling Good
- Starlight
- Supermassive Black Hole
- Resistance
- Undisclosed Desires
- Guiding Light

Gah so much crap but at this point I would take it and buy it in a heart beat.

The new album release (or a DVD release if it ever happens) is our last chance to get DLC. If they won't release it by then, you might aswell give up.

[Wario_Man]

As we know, the question of Muse DLC has caused many an argument. There are those who have overly reqested the band and many have found this annoying, but are these supposed "over-posters" as stupid and irritating as many people see them?

Rock Band was first released in North America, November 2007. "Hysteria" followed shortly and people have been begging for more Muse ever since. It has now been over four years and there's no more Muse DLC to be found. I have a firm belief that Muse is one of the most requested bands ever on Rock Band, so why there is only one song to be found here is a mystery to me.

Harmonix has stated that their awareness of the Muse requests with something like "OK, we get it. You like Muse". Let's face it: leaving it with that is like pouring salt into a wound. Sure others have said that Harmonix is doing what they can to add more Muse, but that was quite a time ago and it makes one wonder what in oblivion is taking them so long.

My question is this: does anyone have a clue as to why Harmonix is ignoring all the Muse requests? I can find no logical explanation (unless Muse themselves reject, which I doubt) and it's burning me up! Why must we, the Musers, be denied what so many others have been permitted? It seems nearly everyone who wants more Muse in Rock Band is seen unreasonable trolls, but in my eyes, Harmonix are the trolls for acting like they do. I am not going to blast anyone. That wouldn't solve anything. I just want some answers.

If you think I am being rash and unreasonable, give me some sense, and know this: Should Harmonix add More Muse to Rock Band, I would be eternally grateful.

[JrManPT]

My guess would be Muse are asking for more than HMX hopes to spend on them thinking they would not make a killing with the dlc...

[RockBandRocker]

Honestly, I think it might just be a difficulty in licensing the master tracks to use the stems. I would guess that HMX would have to go through both Warner Music Group for the U.S. rights and through the respective labels for the U.K./Europe rights.

I don't know how Neversoft managed to get 8 Muse songs across 4 Guitar Hero games, but I would assume having Activision's bankroll helped a lot. We can't use Rocksmith as an example here because they don't need the stems to use the songs in that game.

Also, as GNF loves to constantly point out, "Hysteria" was released in May 2008, before Muse became known as "The Twilight Band" (*vomits*) later that year. Add to that a Grammy award for The Resistance, and the cost of licensing goes up significantly.

hmxhenry has said in the past, on the forums and in the podcasts, that HMX tries to find a balance between what the forum community wants as DLC and what the larger community wants as DLC. Now, they know Muse is highly requested here, but with the new Facebook App, Muse has been the steady #1 since HMX launched it. I think Muse songs are the only things that could satisfy both the forums and the larger community.