RBN DLC Discussion: 3/8/2012 (Xbox), 3/13/2012 (PS3)

[Der_Lex]

ziltoid is finally completed with this week's releases. everyone whose been waiting over a year since it was announced, there you go! you can now play the album start to finish while ziltoid makes fun of you.

It's a shame the album started in the RBN1.0 days so we don't have keys on any tracks (and the PS3 will never have ZTO), but the songs are awesome enough for me to buy them exclusively for drums. I'm eagerly awaiting the moment when my new drum kit comes in so I can play Hyperdrive.

[Cipher_Peon]

What is Ziltoid? I think I've heard of them before.

[KaneRobot]

Wow, can't believe the Ziltoid album is finally complete. Gonna be sad not to have Dev to look forward to now...

[Zemanator]

yeah, it does kind of suck.. on both accounts

[emsegs]

Country songs taking up the spots of songs I might actually buy... sigh. Quartered isn't so bad though. Got a couple weeks of RBN to catch up on anyways

[LiveHomeVideo]

What is Ziltoid? I think I've heard of them before.

Ziltoid the Omniscient is a concept album by Devin Townsend, a metal musician. The album is now completely on Rock Band this week.

[Cipher_Peon]

Hooray for those who likes his songs then

[GNFfhqwhgads]

Agreed. The RBN needs to expand itself from its metalcore/extreme metal dominance, anyway.

Take it up with artists of other genres that aren't as supportive as metal artists/labels. What do you think is more productive in determining user-generated content, going around informing artists you like of the possibility, or sitting on the internet complaining that others who DO go around aren't going around specifically with your interests in mind?

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

Agreed. The RBN needs to expand itself from its metalcore/extreme metal dominance, anyway.

Believe me we tried. I purposefully contacted bands that weren't metal late last fall. Just to try and get some more genres and non metal acts. Between bands and labels I contacted over 200 hundred non metal artists.

You wanna know how many responded since then? MAYBE 5.

Since then we've had 10 - 15 metal bands contact us about being in the game.

So it's not that we all hate everything but metal and won't release any other genres. It's that the other genres just don't seem to care for some reason (outside of a very very small minority).

So I don't know what it is about hard rock/metal acts that makes them want to be in the game, and why other genres don't really care, but it is what it is I guess.

[Cipher_Peon]

Don't let it trouble you. A band deserves as much content as they are willing and can provide.