HMX: Please unpatch Pro Guitar DLC compatibility.

[PaperMario21]

In which rock band game can you pick a song online that everyone has paid for but the guitarist or bassist has to sit out?

Rock Band 1.03.

It's the DLC layer I'm talking about and giving you an example that if the DLC component is missing (previously entire song), you won't be able to play it with someone.

[jeronemitchell]

And again I'll bring up that we don't know if the original DLC royalty covers the distribution of tablature. So no, it's not necessarily illegal.

But we do know that it won't be given away for free in any case, which is what would be needed to distribute these charts to non-Pro players.

Edit: While I actually think HMX's response was reasonable, I can't bring myself to vote for something that limits the game unnecessarily. My emotions want to say "no", but reasonability says "yes".

[The_Wurm]

In which rock band game can you pick a song online that everyone has paid for but the guitarist or bassist has to sit out?

Rock Band 1.03.

He could be referring to this situation.

I'm playing online with people, I pick a song that has Pro Guitar. The next 2 songs are picked by the others, and they don't have pro guitar charting in them. If I pick Pro-Guitar as my instrument, I will not be able to play anything for those last 2 songs, therefore, sitting out.

[Lady Siara]

Yeah, I think it's going to make online play with the squier about as undesirable as possible.

That won't prevent me from getting it, but I do think the way it was before with a blank lane was better than this.

[raynebc]

But we do know that it won't be given away for free in any case, which is what would be needed to distribute these charts to non-Pro players.

That doesn't mean that the record labels weren't already paid the necessary royalties from the original DLC purchase. That's my point entirely: It may not be a breach of contract at all.

[lvmathemagician]

In which rock band game can you pick a song online that everyone has paid for but the guitarist or bassist has to sit out?

Rock Band 1.03.

wrong.

[lvmathemagician]

That doesn't mean that the record labels weren't already paid the necessary royalties from the original DLC purchase. That's my point entirely: It may not be a breach of contract at all.

We know so little that speculation is futile. The best we can do is make our voices heard. I believe this is a case of being careful of what you wish for.

[charliesmile]

Absolutely devastating.

oh boo-freaking-hoo, let me call the freaking wahmbulance.
what the hell, man? can't you all play 5 button guitar/bass? you know, like we did for 3 years with RB1 and RB2?
GET OVER YOURSELVES. talk about first-world problems.
i've never seen a group of gamers ***** this much over the most meanial ****.

[folkeye]

We know so little that speculation is futile. The best we can do is make our voices heard. I believe this is a case of being careful of what you wish for.

Bottom line is they need to find a way for participants to actually be partipants together not spectators (which is where it is now, and where it was before just in a less obvious manner). Else there is no point at all in looking to play with people. They don't help, they don't hinder, it's like their not there (imagine that). Either way, it's still playing solo no matter what you do. Mind you I don't even play with pro and I feel totally solo 100% of the time.

Face it, with RB3's new online system they were preparing people to not desire to be there anymore. It worked on me. I don't go online anymore, I used to be there many times a week in RB2. Desire to look for other players has been squashed fully in this game for me. Even playing with friends has been undesireable due to this issue of me never truly being able to play with them.

So RB4 really needs to re-think this stuff. Either PRO needs it's own lobby, or they need to find a way to have people actually play together again.

I sadly knew from the first announcement of pro that the online community would be divided, but not to what extent. Isolation for both basic and pro players is pretty bad right now. No longer a good group game unless you have local folk in the same room.

[vsTerminus]

oh boo-freaking-hoo, let me call the freaking wahmbulance.
what the hell, man? can't you all play 5 button guitar/bass? you know, like we did for 3 years with RB1 and RB2?
GET OVER YOURSELVES. talk about first-world problems.
i've never seen a group of gamers ***** this much over the most meanial ****.

I thought we established long ago that just because there are starving children in the world does not mean we should be ignoring other problems, especially small ones that can be easily remedied.