Purchasing songs you like based on difficulty (or lack thereof).

[lvmathemagician]

I won't buy overly difficult pro guitar tracks. There's just no point.

[dmbdaw]

I usually buy for what I enjoy or what will kill at parties or get togethers. As far as difficulty goes, if the song I like is somewhat difficult I usually drop the difficulty down a notch. I personally know that if RB ever gets DMB and the songs are tiered difficult that will not stop me from snatching those things up ASAP!!

[rkbdgurl]

I tend to not buy songs that are devil tier even if I like them. I teeter back and forth on this issue from time to time though.

Sometimes my friends will influence my decision, and I'll buy a killer hard song. Then....they will roll through it like it's a simple walk in the park, while I'm about to give myself a coronary trying to play it on drums. and...If that's not bad enough, I feel the need to then, apologize, for being so sucky. I really hate when that happens :P

[GameMaster439]

To clarify, it wasn't part of the Days of Peace pack. That would have been weird.

Yes it would have. Sorry for any sort of confusion.

[NOT_Travis]

I almost exclusively buy songs I like. I play expert pro drums but I'm not that good at it. Up to the 3rd or 4th tier I can usually hang but I have very few FCs. I think that the only song I'm number one on is "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes.

That being said, I bought "Polly." And the Slayer pack. If I like it, I buy it, even if there's no way I'll be able to keep up with Dave Lombardo in this lifetime.

[googleimage]

When I first started RB, I tended towards picking songs based on high difficulty; at that point, it was all about the novelty of seeing how far I could go and still pull off 5 stars, or even gold stars - mainly on guitar. After a certain point, difficulty became less of a consideration because a) there's only so much Megadeth or Evile you can play before your wrists start to hate you, and b) there was no reason I couldn't get similar enjoyment out of lesser-tiered songs. I still find that the songs that are 1-dot or 0-dot tend to wear out their welcome quickly. But as long as there's some challenge, or some variety, then I don't discriminate too much based on difficulty.

Nowadays, though, I think twice before buying a song with devils. With RBN pushing the tiering standard higher and higher, and with a few purchases turning into a complete disaster (*coughPacketFliercough*), I'm finding out that there's an upper limit to what's an acceptable level of challenge. A little extra diligence is needed before springing for those songs these days, because the "Impossible" label is taken far more literally than it used to be.

[MoonageDaydream]

I almost exclusively buy songs I like. I play expert pro drums but I'm not that good at it. Up to the 3rd or 4th tier I can usually hang but I have very few FCs. I think that the only song I'm number one on is "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes.

That being said, I bought "Polly." And the Slayer pack. If I like it, I buy it, even if there's no way I'll be able to keep up with Dave Lombardo in this lifetime.

...Isn't Lombardo one of the best drummers around? Almost nobody can keep up to him.

[NOT_Travis]

...Isn't Lombardo one of the best drummers around? Almost nobody can keep up to him.

Exactly my point. I can't hang with Charlie Benante, or most of Nick Menza's work, or most of the faster Metallica, either. I love to listen to intricate, complicated music, but the Expert charts are close enough to the real thing (and require quite a lot of skill) that I would have to quit my job to learn how to do that properly.

My point was that being primarily a drums player, I've bought one of the simplest drum songs available and multiple extremely difficult (official) DLC tracks for drums. Why? Because I like the song. I'm not against new stuff, but there's a much higher bar to be met for me to want it. Yeah, it's only two bucks, but I'm buying these for replayability.