From Comic-Con: Drake Demoing Rock Band Blitz TODAY at 6:45 EST with GameSpot!

[dragoninforcer]

I STILL don't get it...

No one has it. Blitz isn't out yet.

[HMXPope]

I STILL don't get it...

Rock Band Blitz: It's the Chess of games.

[HMXPope]

Now that is something i'm curious about, noone has clarified if you need a gold account or not.

Good question! You only need a Silver account. Were the multiplayer gameplay in RB Blitz synchronous, we wouldn't be able to say that.

Also, let's all pitch in an send a switch/router to Rock_Starman.

[ErikSarcasm]

No one has it. Blitz isn't out yet.

Oh THAT'S why!

[BUBBA6969]

Nope. Not only brand new and different server machines, but a whole new server software infrastructure, written from the ground up just for Blitz by our crack Network programmers. It lets us ditch the older codebase that we used to support Rock Band. We're also going to use it for the next Dance Central.

Does this mean the RB3 servers will get this update/upgrade as well to fix the issues it has? Or is it even possible?

[Lowlander2]

Keep in mind, too, that before you dive into all this leaderboard jockeying, you need to earn and unlock all of the power-ups, via cred collection. Will that process be considered "faux" playing as well?

Well, no, because that's just mere unlocking, and find me a console arcadey title that doesn't have that. No, what I am talking about is seemingly making it so you have to keep unlocking these powerups instead of, y'know, leaving them unlocked.

[Lord_Mhoram]

Yes, the game will require an internet connection if you want to use power-ups, or collect coins and cred (XP). The hope is that if you've got an internet connection to actually download the game, it would follow that you also have that connection available when playing.

I read the other post explaining the reason, but this is likely a deal break for me. We have way to many wired connections too the internet at our place (the main computer, Xbox, and old computer and 2 that I used from work at home - and the router only has 4 slots), the Xbox being one of them. I tend to plug the Xbox in when I download stuff, but not during play.

But if the powerups and such are online only, or require Gold access, I won't be using those. Which livened up the gameplay. I double I'll be playing this anywhere as much as I thought I was going to. I don't care about leaderboards, but the extra gameplay with power-ups looked fun.

Ah well.

Online connectivity only is one of the reasons I don't play PC games much, and why we stopped buying Xbox live indie games.

[Lowlander2]

The reasons for this are many, but the biggest one is simplicity. For Rock Band games some of the most complicated network stuff we had to do was queueing up results (i.e. leaderboard scores) and then delivering them when you were connected. There are all sorts of weird edge cases that have to be handled.

Seems like you did just fine with the prior titles... :/ #justsayin

[Lord_Mhoram]

My last post was a bit harsh. I will wait to see how the game is - if nothing else I get a cool game, even without powerups.

[jibjqrkl]

well, you could plug in your internet once, get loads of coins and then stop using the internet.