RBN DLC Discussion: 5/17/2012 (Xbox), 5/22/2012 (PS3)

[SheSaidSheSaid]

People are idiots.

Mhm. This is to say nothing of the guy who took the occasion of an RBN announcement to say "How about some Eagles?" although to FB's credit, there was one other person saying "This is not where you make your band requests" (is anywhere on FB the place where you make your band requests?)

[Cipher_Peon]

I think they think the same of us.

[SheSaidSheSaid]

What do you mean Cipher?

[FairwoodStudios]

What do you mean Cipher?

There's a non-trivial contingency of music listeners that will look at folks like us and say "why do you idiots support these ******* bands? They're crap! If they were any good they'd be popular!"

And we can tell them as politely as we'd like that no, a band's popularity is based only partially on their talent and more dramatically on their exposure and marketing capabilities, and as a result a band can be terrible but well-marketed and thus popular despite themselves or a talented band can remain obscure due to lack of marketing, but before you can even get a third of the way through explaining that they've tuned you out in favor of listening to more Pitbull.

Whether it's earnest or the result of ages of habit, most people only like what they're told to like. The tragedy of the mainstream.

[SheSaidSheSaid]

Ahh, the old "Nickelback is good because I've heard of them" argument. Luv it.

I used to be one of those people.....until I realized I'm actually really easy to please when it comes to music and like pretty much everything

[Oscarvarium]

"People still play Rock Band?"

On. Every. Single. Post.

And this is from people who have Liked the Facebook page as well.

[SirDavidTLynch]

I don't check Facebook comments often because when I do I'm reminded why I don't check Facebook comments often.

I do have some bile fascination with the GameFAQs board, though.

[Cipher_Peon]

Their Paramore dislike made me a very sad panda.

[MagicMurderBag7]

I usually look here. There is always someone who pops in and says "people still play this?", "learn a real instrument", and "these damn RB songs are cluttering the marketplace!".

[cyborggrimreaper]

Sorry about not having a trailer up this week, personal issues have arise but as soon as they are resolved I will release a new RBN trailer with trying to incorporate some of the ideas yall had from the other thread.