Questions for RBN Devs?

[HMXMister_Game]

We're going to record a Podcast later this week all about RBN. Do you have questions for me, HMXLachesis, or HMXJohnD specifically about Rock Band Network? Post them here and we'll answer as many of the most popular ones as we can.

[SeymourDuncan17]

Have you ever considered having some of the community charters become charters for the "official" DLC? There are some amazing charters out there.

Drake's band, The Main Drag, is u-... um... errr........ amazing. I can't of a question to go along with that at the moment. I'll just state that the band is amazing.

Actually, I can't think up anymore questions period right now. I'll post some more later!

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

Has there ever been a band or song announced or put into testing from an authoring company, and you guys at Harmonix have been; "Oh damn! We wanted to do that one."

[SeymourDuncan17]

Has there ever been a band or song announced or put into testing from an authoring company, and you guys at Harmonix have been; "Oh damn! We wanted to do that one."

Oh, oh! This one! I've wondered this myself multiple times.

[Oscarvarium]

Ideally I'd like to know a bit about potentially adding pro guitar and bass support for RBN in the future. I understand the reasons behind not including it in RBN2.0 but I'm personally hoping that the decision will be revisited sooner rather than later.

As part of the same question, if and when Pro support does become available, do you think it will be in the same format as the HMX DLC upgrades are? I.e. will we be able to add pro guitar/bass upgrades for previously released songs?

[SeymourDuncan17]

Has HMX ever approached a band that's had DLC released "officially" to be apart of RBN?

[Xenigma]

Has RBN ever affected what Harmonix pursues for actual DLC? For example, there is a lot of great metal on the Network, while there has been very little metal on official DLC since RB3 (IIRC). While it could simply be that famous artists like Doors/Joel/etc are higher priority, it appears as though HMX is intentionally holding off on the genre due to the amount available via RBN.

[DKage]

Now that RBN 2.0 is officially live, are there any plans to revisit previously released material to include the new instruments? I know that I, for one, would repurchase certain tracks if they were updated to include keys/harmonies. I am particularly interested in an updated version of "(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar" with the keys mapped to the keys instead of guitar, but the question seems apropos for other tracks as well (i.e. "The Touch" by Stan Bush).

[dinoman]

is there any reason why some countries including mine does not allow XNA? has Microsoft said that to you?

[Arcanon]

Now that RBN 2.0 is officially live, are there any plans to revisit previously released material to include the new instruments? I know that I, for one, would repurchase certain tracks if they were updated to include keys/harmonies. I am particularly interested in an updated version of "(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar" with the keys mapped to the keys instead of guitar, but the question seems apropos for other tracks as well (i.e. "The Touch" by Stan Bush).

That's a question for the authors, not the devs. The authors and rights holders make that decision. There's already some RB3 Versions of songs in playtesting as we speak.

My questions:

-What are the requirements a song must meet to be eligible to be ported to the PS3? I've heard different things such as popularity, sales, etc. I'd thought it was best-selling songs only, but I also keep hearing other factors come into play. If that can be disclosed, I'd love to know what the factors are, partly for the selfish reason of seeing where our songs stand.
-Some random guy on the street told me you guys promised free cake to all RBN authors. I'm going to totally believe him because of his classy tinfoil hat. Where's my cake?