Harmonix Holiday Livestreamaganza on 12/19! Q&A, DLC reveal & giveaways FOR CHARITY!

[ecIggy]

Why would they tell us if we asked as opposed to waiting until they were ready to announce it?

...maybe they are ready to announce it. Or perhaps can clarify the statement, by reassuring us current songs will still be compatible, just something to expand on the statement is all.

[samjjones]

I'm a guy and don't care what I sing, why do girls? I mean, really, if they can name some female-fronted bands, just...go to those.

That's fine for you...but they already include the data in the song files and it costs nothing to add this filter...so my question is "why not add it?" for a future release. The more filtering/sorting options, the better, IMO.

[lanes8]

Why no more Christmas songs? Specifically Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

I couldn't agree with you more. Maybe with a TSO pack they should include Savatage's songs too.

[GNFfhqwhgads]

That's fine for you...but they already include the data in the song files and it costs nothing to add this filter...so my question is "why not add it?" for a future release. The more filtering/sorting options, the better, IMO.

How do you propose sorting songs that have both?

[samjjones]

How do you propose sorting songs that have both?

I don't know if that info is stored for secondary/tertiary vocal tracks in the song files. So if its not, then those get left alone.

But lead vox gender is definitely stored currently.

[folkeye]

How do you propose sorting songs that have both?

Filter: She-Man

[GNFfhqwhgads]

Filter: She-Man

But Dora isn't a prefab anymore.

[SheSaidSheSaid]

I'm a guy and don't care what I sing, why do girls? I mean, really, if they can name some female-fronted bands, just...go to those.

On the occasions when I sing, I like to sing whatever. Frankly I do slightly prefer to sing male-fronted songs because I'm not tempted to try to match pitch exactly. I do that with female-fronted songs and I....fail horribly When I sing male-fronted songs and just try to sing correctly within my own octave, I usually score a tiny bit better. My best vocal scores are on Foo Fighters and 3 Doors Down songs (excluding talkies, of course).

[SheSaidSheSaid]

How did Rocksmith get Eric Clapton/Derek & the Dominos and RB didn't, I thought they were exclusive to Power Gig?

PowerGig was a joke, and it died a horrible death. Presumably, whatever exclusivity it had died with it (Dave Matthews was also PowerGig-exclusive). Clapton's big thing was always that he wanted people to play his songs on a real guitar, not that he was necessarily against music gaming. Which, yeah, it makes him look pretty goddamn stupid for favoring PowerGig in the first place, since their "real guitar" was......again, a joke, and that game did have a 5-button mode. But it makes it pretty clear why he'd pop up on Rocksmith.

I'd love to know about the Stones, too, but I doubt they can talk about that.

[Ronabo]

How much data do you have on your hardcore player base of RB?

Like age, location, sex, whatnot... And if you have this info is any of it surprising to you?

Also now that the plastic instrument boom is over and has plateaued out, do you think anything you can do would make it gain popularity again?

Also I wanted to say thanks for the RBN. I've discovered many bands and artists I'd never found myself.