News and announcements from That Authoring Group

[NightmareLyre]

Wow, this is pretty heavy... I wish you all the best of wishes with college and I will pray to the rock gods that you guys will manage to rise from the ashes some day.

[iHomer]

And yes it's people like all the wonderfull *******s at the DLCquickplay forums that make it hard to try and bother most days.

omg <333333333333

[Bront20]

1) Noble, it's criticism, but I don't think it's a personal attack (though it's obviously not being said in a particularly nice tone). You wear your heart on your sleeve as you cheer for RBN, but sometimes that means you take things personally when they are simply point out facts.

2) I don't see TAG going anywhere. Too much content and too many followers for it to. I'm sure you can get folks to step up, and I'm sure you're not the only RBN house to take this hit.

3) Don't go anywhere Noble. Shake it off, take what you can from your critics, make yourself better, and move on. I look forward to seeing more content from TAG, even if it takes a while to get here.

[TubaDude49]

I'm currently unemployed and bored about 85% of the day so just let me know if I can be of any help.

Did you ever sponsor those testers like you announced a while back?

[CloudWolf]

As one of those wonderful ****ers at DLCQP, I have to say that I'm pretty sad to (possibly) see you guys go. Yeah sure, you announced quite a few songs way too early which lead to a sour taste in the mouths of many (including me in the beginning, I just really wanted Protest the Hero), but what you guys released was mostly great stuff. I'm talking about stuff like Devin Townsend, Cynic, Ghost Brigade, Chad Smith and His ombastic Meatbats, etc. Bands that I personally didn't believe would ever come to Rock Band (too big for RBN, too small/niche for DLC) and I'm forever grateful for that.

[TheStuddz]

This is terrible.

TAG, you are my favorite authoring group (no offense to others), and the first one I go to when I want to see an artist in the game. I wish you the best of luck in overcoming your struggles. If I had any charting abilities, I'd help, but I'm glad to see that others are stepping up too.

And if this is the end, thanks for everything you've done for us. Somehow, though, I know you'll make it through. After all, you do owe me those Sub Pop tracks.

[TubaDude49]

That said, while I know nothing specifically about authoring, I am a QA professional for a multi-billion dollar financial software company, and could probably help with the "playtest" aspect (even though I'm a "hard difficulty" player at best in core RB). I also have decent organization and administrative skills, and am pretty detail oriented and observant. I'm fairly certain I could learn the mechanics if properly directed.

Let me know what I can do to help. I don't want to see any authoring group fail, especially one that has shown a lot of enthusiasm and crazy-ass vision for expanding the scope of RBN.

If you could read up on these, it should give you a pretty good idea.
The pipeline really needs some more playtesters right now, so if you do end up giving it a shot that'd be awesome.

[wafflerevolution]

I've said it before... I have a lot of free time and can play at any level of any instrument pretty decently, from easy to expert. I can even do pro drums... I am willing to test as needed... I'm by no means qualified to author though...

[TubaDude49]

I've said it before... I have a lot of free time and can play at any level of any instrument pretty decently, from easy to expert. I can even do pro drums... I am willing to test as needed... I'm by no means qualified to author though...

As I said in the post above, we could really use some good testers in the system, so go ahead and give it a shot.

[Kariodude]

Did you ever sponsor those testers like you announced a while back?

I sponsored one. Thought I could afford to sponsor more than one but I couldn't. The real problem with it is that I can't monitor if they actually do anything. Even if I could, the money is gone and I can't do a thing about it.