Demos: Why???

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

no, I'm playing Rockband 2 there's no way I can find to separate Rockband 1,2 and 3 songs to show one particular group (as I'm sure there's no way to do that). There has been an update for the Rockshop I've already noticed that because it looks different from when I had it downloaded last (that was about 4 months ago). it's a little smoother now. But I am looking under Rockband I've also noticed they show up in the network too. This isn't really a problem, my main focus was: why have demos in the first place?

There you go.

Every bit of RBN DLC Since March of 2011 will not work in Rock Band 2.

So I don't know if the demo's do or not (I can't imagine they do), but those songs won't show up for purchase in RB2 since they're not available.

[MagicMurderBag7]

my main problem is why have demos in the first place though, I just don't see a point to having them, there's already a preview function (that hardly works) not to mention there's a difficulty menu on the side of every song so you already know how difficult it is with each instrument. I mean if you really wanted to preview the song you could always just look it up, but why spend the day going through over 2000 songs just to possibly purchase a song you've never even heard of? That seems a bit redundant to me. I mean there are 2000 songs in there I sure you could start with the ones that you like first then go on to risk your money buying a song you might not even like playing. I don't like that about DLC but then again that's the rules for all DLC which makes sense. I mean how many people make a decision to buy a song after only playing it for maybe 35 seconds?

How does the preview function hardly work? And who is going to preview every song in one go? And what do you mean "risk your money on something you might not like playing"? Isn't that a good reason to have trails? I honestly don't see what your problem is.

[raynebc]

I try to listen to the preview for each RBN release as long as it's not a double bass chart or something I already know I don't like. If the preview sounds interesting I'll download the demo. If the chart and song seem interesting during the demo, I buy the song. Sure, the previews could load faster, and there could be better integration of the store with the song selection (ie. a jump to this song's store page, in case the prompt to buy a song at the end of the chart is canceled accidentally), but it's a decent way to sample RBN content.

[J-Roc-Drumz]

I think using RB2 to buy em is your problem.

I love the demo option cause it really helps me keep track of the songs I want to buy or look up later, vs trying to remember them or write em down on a piece of paper somewhere.

[Lord_Mhoram]

I play a demo of every RBN song there is* It's how I decide what RBN songs I want. It's fun to get a bit of the charts, and hear bits of the song.

The availalbity of Demos is one of the biggest selling points of the RBN for me.



* I skip all x2 bass pedal songs, and I won't play the demo (just listen to the preview) if the song is really high difficulty on Drum/Bass/Guitar than 0 or 1 dot on vocals because 99% of the time, it's cookie monster vocals and I don't buy those.