RB-Blitz News - Small announcement coming 5/18

[SirDavidTLynch]

How is it likely? There's no precendent for Harmonix recycling songs like that, even going so far as to give Green Day: Rock Band an incomplete album if you don't have the DLC.

[GNFfhqwhgads]

Spoonman only has a handful of harmonies and no keys anyway.


Spoons solo for keys chart.

[MagicMurderBag7]

How is it likely? There's no precendent for Harmonix recycling songs like that, even going so far as to give Green Day: Rock Band an incomplete album if you don't have the DLC.

The following is pure speculation:

In an interview not too long ago HMX were asked if any of the songs we lost along the way will be playable in Blitz. Their response was "keep your eyes peeled" or something to that effect. And back when we got Dani California and Black Hole Sun back they said they were working on getting Give It Away and Spoonman back as well. We know we cant get these songs in a patch because they weren't in the initial export but if we were to get them back it would seem to piss off the least amount of people if they were in a larger pack with 23 other songs. Also they would be RB3 versions for the same reason the Country Track Pack 2 songs were, so they don't confuse the newer players by not having all possible features.

[BohemianMatt]

Spoon - is there a spoon or isn't there...
There is no Spoon.

Matrix music confirmed!

"Wake Up" by Rage Against the Machine?

Sweet! I'm so ready for Rage Against the Machine 02!

[Numskull]

How is it likely? There's no precendent for Harmonix recycling songs like that, even going so far as to give Green Day: Rock Band an incomplete album if you don't have the DLC.

There's no precedent for a number of things that Harmonix has done. They're the pioneers of weekly DLC for a software platform.

I will not be the least bit surprised if Spoonman and/or Give it Away appear on the Rock Band Blitz setlist.

[samjjones]

There's no precedent for a number of things that Harmonix has done. They're the pioneers of weekly DLC for a software platform.

I will not be the least bit surprised if Spoonman and/or Give it Away appear on the Rock Band Blitz setlist.

They could be "playable" in Blitz, and not be part of the 25 songs packaged with Blitz.

Same with all of the "blocked" songs that were part of previous exports (and, thus appear in our hard drives) which were made not playable in RB2 and RB3.

Blitz would have to contain explicit code to "ignore" specific songs; otherwise, everything that is in the specific hard drive location (where RB dumps its song data files) should be accessible going forward.

Songs which never physically "exported" are exempt from this list; those songs would need actual RB3 DLC files in order to work, since they were never dumped on your HD.

[SirDavidTLynch]

That makes even less sense because those songs aren't in the export file, and Soundgarden didn't get any royalties from the RB2 export. There's nothing blocking something that's not there in the first place.

If they need a line of code blocking the Euro-RB1 songs, why wouldn't they include it? The labels aren't going to let them off the hook because a simple line of code that's already in RB3 is too hard to program.

[samjjones]

That makes even less sense because those songs aren't in the export file, and Soundgarden didn't get any royalties from the RB2 export. There's nothing blocking something that's not there in the first place.

If they need a line of code blocking the Euro-RB1 songs, why wouldn't they include it? The labels aren't going to let them off the hook because a simple line of code that's already in RB3 is too hard to program.

Like I said, anything that wasn't part of the export file(s) is obviously not included; those files don't physically exist, so they are not "playable".

I actually don't know off-hand which songs were part of the exports, so if Spoonman wasn't part of the export, then it would certainly need a new file to be playable in Blitz.

I'm not bringing any new information to this thread. Sorry about that.

[grumblevolcano]

Like I said, anything that wasn't part of the export file(s) is obviously not included; those files don't physically exist, so they are not "playable".

I actually don't know off-hand which songs were part of the exports, so if Spoonman wasn't part of the export, then it would certainly need a new file to be playable in Blitz.

I'm not bringing any new information to this thread. Sorry about that.

The export file didn't include:
Spoonman
Give It Away
Let There Be Rock
Battery
Any Way You Want It

Also the 9 HMX songs but those became a free pack in January 2011.

So the Spoonman file does not exist and would only return if a new file (RB3 Version or RBB setlist) was created.

[Meat-Popsicle]

There's no precedent for a number of things that Harmonix has done. They're the pioneers of weekly DLC for a software platform.

I would like to steal this as my stock response anytime someone tries to tell me that my Rock Band dreams can't come true.