Avenged Sevenfold DLC From Far In the Future?

[SheSaidSheSaid]

Ah yeah, I did get it with Track Pack 2, it's been a while so I wasn't sure.

That's really bizarre. I almost want to buy the standalone song and see if that shows up properly, but then I'd have two? Or is the game smart enough to detect duplicates?

Yes and no. You'd have two songs sitting on your hard drive that both independently count toward the song limit (which is astronomically large in Blitz, but people are starting to run into it for RB3). The game will indeed only display one of them.

For what it's worth, I haven't heard about this bizarre sorting happening with the single version.

You'd think Harmonix would just fix the DLC package itself rather than issuing all these game patches, LOL...

It's not really that big a deal, is it? So a song has the wrong year. It still plays just fine, and that's all that really matters.

[FieryMurphMan]

Is there anyone else finding humor in the fact that this is referencing a year that is RIDICULOUSLY far ahead in the future (and exsiting LONG after I've passed, my kids have past, my great great great great x112 greats kids have passed) and the song title in question is titled "Afterlife"? Lol. Anyone?

[jibjqrkl]

nah, not really

[drfsupercenter]

Yes and no. You'd have two songs sitting on your hard drive that both independently count toward the song limit (which is astronomically large in Blitz, but people are starting to run into it for RB3). The game will indeed only display one of them.

For what it's worth, I haven't heard about this bizarre sorting happening with the single version.

I didn't realize RB3 had a song limit, you'd think that someone could own a copy of every song available for purchase and it would work :P

What I'd like to know is, which one would show up in the list, the single version or the pack version? I can't really delete a song from an export pack and I am not going to buy all 20 of those just because one is screwed up.

It's not really that big a deal, is it? So a song has the wrong year. It still plays just fine, and that's all that really matters.

It's not. I was mainly just wondering why the heck that was happening, since I was rather surprised to see something show as a rediculously huge number like that. And as I mentioned, the album art also doesn't show up, so there may be something else screwed up in the metadata.

Is there anyone else finding humor in the fact that this is referencing a year that is RIDICULOUSLY far ahead in the future (and exsiting LONG after I've passed, my kids have past, my great great great great x112 greats kids have passed) and the song title in question is titled "Afterlife"? Lol. Anyone?

Yep. That's why I thought maybe that was intentional and some sort of a joke.


Anyway, my own two cents, being a tech guru... I think that since RB2 and whatnot show the song as 1900 and PS3 version of Blitz shows it as "0" (I have the Xbox Live version), the metadata is either missing or set to 0 for the year. RB2 would likely have 19xx as the default, similar to how early 90s computers were.

So that just makes me wonder what the heck Blitz is doing. It's not even like some sort of hex number, is it? If it was showing as 255, 65565 or so on, I'd just assume that the years were converted to hex and having a "0" or null value overloaded it. But this is just odd.
Any of the Harmonix devs want to shed some light as to why it's doing that? :P

[SirDavidTLynch]

I assumed it was a power of 2, but it's not. The year in hexadecimal is 202D3139, but I doubt that means anything.

[hmxhenry]

You'd think Harmonix would just fix the DLC package itself rather than issuing all these game patches, LOL...

The issue isn't with the DLC package it's with the file data for Afterlife from the TP2 export, which is why it hasn't been addressed previously. There was a similar issue with an RB3 goal including Afterlife, which we were able to address in an RB3 title update. Since we don't have any plans for a title update for Blitz at the moment, and due to the rather limited number of people playing Afterlife from TP2 and the fact that it's a relatively minor sorting issue it's not a high priority fix.

Interesting sorting for sure, but it's one track out of 3,900 and it doesn't affect gameplay so it's good for a chuckle more than anything else.

[HeyRiles]

Honestly I'm shocked that it didn't default to 1970 like most programming defaults typically default to, which makes me think that somebody accidentally wrote it in TP2 as a year that doesn't exist yet, such as 20111 or something like that, and whatever coding used to sort dates (possibly hexadecimal) misread it as some ridiculous number, while RB3 simply defaulted to 1900

[SheSaidSheSaid]

I didn't realize RB3 had a song limit, you'd think that someone could own a copy of every song available for purchase and it would work :P

On PS3 and Wii, that's still the case. Xbox, which gets all RBN, is well past the single-machine song limit for RB3. The song limit is 2,952 songs (basically 3,000, but it's like hard drives -- mine is 250GB but only 232 of them are actually usable). We don't know the exact number for Blitz, because it's so absurdly high -- one of the devs (HMXMister_Game, I think) said it's approximately twice the number for RB3.

What I'd like to know is, which one would show up in the list, the single version or the pack version? I can't really delete a song from an export pack and I am not going to buy all 20 of those just because one is screwed up.

I dunno. If you wanna spend the $2 to find out, be my guest. If you wanted to, you could delete the TP2 export and then redownload it later.

Interesting sorting for sure, but it's one track out of 3,900 and it doesn't affect gameplay so it's good for a chuckle more than anything else.

Yep, that's how I see it too.

The issue isn't with the DLC package it's with the file data for Afterlife from the TP2 export, which is why it hasn't been addressed previously. There was a similar issue with an RB3 goal including Afterlife, which we were able to address in an RB3 title update. Since we don't have any plans for a title update for Blitz at the moment, and due to the rather limited number of people playing Afterlife from TP2 and the fact that it's a relatively minor sorting issue it's not a high priority fix.

Now that surprises me a little. I would have figured the TP's would be hot sellers, both to the "I'm not giving a machine my credit card number!!!!" crowd and to the "20 songs for 9 bucks, schweeet!!!!" crowd.

Also it blows my mind a little that you guys even know that. You can tell if someone's playing a song from a pack or a single download? Or are you just going off sales numbers/download numbers?

[jibjqrkl]

Now that surprises me a little. I would have figured the TP's would be hot sellers, both to the "I'm not giving a machine my credit card number!!!!" crowd and to the "20 songs for 9 bucks, schweeet!!!!" crowd.

availability outside US = not so good. so that might have something to do with it.

and some people only want 5 songs from the pack, suck at math, and buy them as singles

[SheSaidSheSaid]

Heh. I bought all track packs for both PS3 and Xbox (except Classic Rock on PS3, since I already had more than half the songs, and Country TP2 on Xbox, because yeah). Too good a deal to pass up. Sure I could do without "Girl U Want" and "TWANG," for starters, but there's several songs on each and every one that I never would have thought to download individually and am very happy to have in my library.