Offline woes

[atalkingfish]

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showt...=1#post4815956

Is that really how they thought it through? I know I'm not a majority here, but I'm certainly not one in a million.

I'm currently at my parents' house between semesters of college, and if I want to connect to the internet on my XBox (whether it be for downloading songs or whatever), I have to bring a 50-foot ethernet cable across the living room, which nobody likes to stumble over. And even then, I can't do it during work hours without bogging down the internet that people use for work. So I can really only connect for short periods of time, sporadically.

I would believe that my situation is rare or unique if it wasn't so similar to my experiences so far in life.

In college, I could only connect to the internet to download songs every weekend by bringing my XBox over to my friends' apartment (ours didn't have ethernet, and the XBox didn't support our WiFi)

At the house I lived at in high school, I had to either plug my internet into my XBox or the router, so I could only use it when nobody in the house needed the internet.

Surely limited internet use is not an unheard-of thing. I've had several unique situations that have called for it, and I'm obviously not the only one here with that situation.

[Pugslasher]

I, like others, cannot always play online, so this really sucks for me. It's why I wasn't able to play much Diablo III.

I don't see why Rock Band Blitz can't be like Trials Evolution, in which you can play offline to try and best your own time. You just have to be online if you want to post against your friends' times or scores. They say updating leaderboards with what players do offline takes a lot of work. Then don't do that. Keep offline scores as a separate thing. Just don't punish people for not being able to or not wanting to play online all the time.

[Relauby]

Yeah, they really need to fix this. I don't even have a special situation, it's just hard to keep up a stable connection in my area. I'm sure there's many others like me, and it's making the game almost unplayable.

[LuigiHann]

It's definitely a bummer that it doesn't even save stars/scores locally for offline play. On the other hand, not marking those songs as 'played' probably means that if you do eventually play it online, you still get the double coin bonus. Probably part of their thinking

[Relauby]

It's definitely a bummer that it doesn't even save stars/scores locally for offline play. On the other hand, not marking those songs as 'played' probably means that if you do eventually play it online, you still get the double coin bonus. Probably part of their thinking

But if they had designed it properly, you'd get the double coin bonus on the first try even if you're offline.

[Ehfahq]

And by properly, you mean the way you want it.

[Relauby]

By properly, I mean a way that doesn't exclude players for no reason, and to no gain for anybody else.

[Dragonclaw]

I guess add me to the voices that really don't care about leaderboards or social stuff and that was only going to be playing the game offline...so it's definately a bummer that I wont be able to do it with all the bells & whistles. I don't really get why this game would HAVE to be played almost exclusively online, just like I dislike achivements that require online interaction.

My gaming time is usually when the wife is playing facebook games...and we can't both be online at the same time without the connection being spotty...

[atalkingfish]

I don't think they thought it through at all. I mean if they had they wouldn't have done something like this at all right? Then again I'm sure I said the same thing about RB 3 and they must've learned from that.

I'm not willing to believe that they didn't think it out at all. I figure it was easy to secure the functionality of the coin system by making sure you are connected to the server to earn coins. Then they decided that the loss of a lacking offline mode was worth the amount of money/time they'd save by not making the two separate.

I do not think it is much to ask for, at the very least, a separate, yet fully functional, offline mode.

[Pugslasher]

The more I think about this, the more it bothers me. I got to play the game online for a bit today, and the power-ups make this game what it is. Now it's going to hurt way more when I go home to play the game offline, and all I get to do is change lanes and go into Blitz Mode. And the scores I set won't even save, which hurts even worse.

I'm not really mad. I'm more just extremely saddened, because Harmonix has made a GREAT GAME. Now I've spent my money on it, and I'll barely get to play it. Thanks, Harmonix.

I wish I paid more attention to game forums. If I had, I might have known about this beforehand, and I never would have bought this game.