Rock Band Blitz – Rumors and Facts

[grumblevolcano]

I say we're not getting either of these artists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpcY_w77qhs

[tnevaker]

it's kinda odd that the 3 elton songs we have in RB now are 3 of the fastest tempo songs from his catalog. especially when so many of his most popular songs (tiny dancer, candle in the wind, bennie and the jets, igtwtcitb, your song, rocket man, don't let the sun go down on me) are mid-tempo or slower songs. they keep picking his peppier songs for disc tracks, but it's so poorly representative of his catalog over all.

[samjjones]

Every time we get a DLC pack that is an artist new to the platform, I'm going to come to you and ask you to show us all what was stopping them from having that pack the day Rock Band 1 came out.

If you can't show us anything, we'll probably ridicule you and your poor logic.

Elton John has been "on" the platform for 4 years. That doesn't classify as "new to the platform".

[SheSaidSheSaid]

his most popular songs (tiny dancer, candle in the wind, bennie and the jets, igtwtcitb, your song, rocket man, don't let the sun go down on me) are mid-tempo or slower songs.

I find your lack of Daniel disturbinbg.

[samjjones]

Is there some cutoff date where if we don't have an "obvious" song by this point we're never going to get it? Have the masters been lost for every single song from the 70s that's not already in the game?

You're applying a generality to a specific example. Do you really believe that HMX hasn't reached out to Elton John about DLC in the past four years? If so, fine, but I wouldn't believe that. After contact is made, it's pretty much out of HMX's hands and in the artists/rights holder's.

I didn't say anything about "obvious" or any other act other than Elton. But you could probably apply the same line of thought to any Tier 1 act.

[dog037]

it's kinda odd that the 3 elton songs we have in RB now are 3 of the fastest tempo songs from his catalog. especially when so many of his most popular songs (tiny dancer, candle in the wind, bennie and the jets, igtwtcitb, your song, rocket man, don't let the sun go down on me) are mid-tempo or slower songs. they keep picking his peppier songs for disc tracks, but it's so poorly representative of his catalog over all.

Because it's a game and they pick fun songs over slow songs.

[SirDavidTLynch]

You're applying a generality to a specific example. Do you really believe that HMX hasn't reached out to Elton John about DLC in the past four years? If so, fine, but I wouldn't believe that. After contact is made, it's pretty much out of HMX's hands and in the artists/rights holder's.

Why wasn't Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting released in 2009? The piano isn't very prominent in the original mix, and Guitar Hero didn't even feel the need to do that thing they do where they pretend the keyboard is a guitar. Why wasn't I'm Still Standing released at any point in the past four and a half years? Smooth was #2 on the Billboard's Hot 100 of the past fifty years in 2003, so what took that so long? Or Never Gonna Give You Up, which got the most requests via rockband.com/request ? Why did it take 3 Queen packs to get Don't Stop Me Now? How many Police songs did we get before Every Breath You Take? Why weren't Clocks or Take on Me released sooner?

I could go on and on, but the point is that just because we don't have a particular song, no matter how popular, doesn't mean we never will.

[HMXPope]

Fake Harmonix Facts:

Before deciding to do The Beatles: Rock Band, we were set to do The Lion King: Rock Band. Since then, things have been sour with Sir Elton.

[FujiSkunk]

Fake Harmonix Facts:

Before deciding to do The Beatles: Rock Band, we were set to do The Lion King: Rock Band. Since then, things have been sour with Sir Elton.

Darn it, Pope! Couldn't you have at least smoothed things over by including "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)" as a bonus track in TB:RB?

[SirDavidTLynch]

The Elton John pack was going to include Circle of Life, but when Harmonix didn't get the version that went "NAAAAAAAANTS INGONYAAAAAAAAAAAAAMA BAGITHI BABA" they decided to scrap the whole thing.