Avenged Sevenfold DLC From Far In the Future?

[hmxhenry]

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?

That estimate is based off a combination of sales, the average export rate based off those sales (you'd be shocked how many people bought the track packs just to play those songs on disc) and previous support tickets submitted for issues with Afterlife in RB3. Add that all up, and figure in that maybe only 3-5 people have flagged this to us in Blitz so far, and it adds up to a "nice to fix if we're able to easily fix" but not "drop everything and fix this widespread game breaking thing!" type of issue.

[thatmarkguy]

Honestly I'm shocked that it didn't default to 1970 like most programming defaults typically default to

A game that includes music from the 1960s (so the legends say) isn't a good candidate to use a datetime format that uses Jan 1 1970 as its zero point.

[drfsupercenter]

Hmm, well that's interesting.

Being a geek, I copied the Track Pack 2 export file to a flash drive and extracted the contents on my computer (won't say how I did it for copyright reasons)

It appears most of the songs in that track pack have a year specified! Looking at the "master song list" that every DLC has, I don't see a year_released for:

It Hurts
Afterlife
Call Me
Just What I Needed
Indestructible
This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race
Why Do You Love Me?
You've Got Another Thing Comin'
Simple Man
Girls Who Play Guitars
Saints of Los Angeles
The Perfect Drug
Zero
El Scorcho

So that's basically the majority that don't have a year... odd... so why is Afterlife the only one from Track Pack 2 that's acting up?

I also see some interesting liner notes such as:

; WEEK 21 - $.99 HARMONIX BANDS (was OXM COVER MOUNT in Feb 08 issue)

So even though it's a track pack, that made it in? (And with no year, might I add!)

Interesting stuff. I'd love to have a discussion with any of the Harmonix people (or anyone else who knows how the DTA coding works) about how the game interprets the data, just because I'm a programmer myself and find this sort of thing fascinating.

[GNFfhqwhgads]

(you'd be shocked how many people bought the track packs just to play those songs on disc)

My friend has Track Pack Volume 2, didn't know it exported, and when I explained it, asked, "Why not just switch if I want those songs?"


Christ. Some people.

[drfsupercenter]

Hahahahah that's a good one

I bought all the track packs just FOR the export codes, I think my discs are sitting on a shelf somewhere collecting dust if I haven't already sold them to GameStop.

[HeyRiles]

A game that includes music from the 1960s (so the legends say) isn't a good candidate to use a datetime format that uses Jan 1 1970 as its zero point.

Well, January 1st, 1970 is day zero in Unix time, and that's what the songs on this site default to if a date hasn't been inputted

[drfsupercenter]

No replies from the Harmonix crew yet? Am I not supposed to know their little secret about metadata files?

[hmxhenry]

No replies from the Harmonix crew yet? Am I not supposed to know their little secret about metadata files?

It's not something that we discuss openly, and since you're already aware that it's a sensitive copyright issue you should have your answer why.

Lots of other things to track, still reeling from Blitz launch and PAX, so diving into a metadata issue for how one song from a track pack sorts isn't a high priority for discussion. Sorry!

[Toothball]

My copy lists it as being from the year 1953705833. Noticed just this morning it was from Track Pack 2 so figured it had something to do with that. Figured it'd get updated eventually.

I did play it just in case it counted towards the 'Play a song from all decades' achievement though.