DLC Discussion Thread Week of 9/25: Green Day 5 Pack! "Oh Love" Plus 4 GDRB Classics

[Magnet]

Hey gang,

On September 25th, multi-platinum selling and Grammy Award winning group Green Day will release ¡Uno! , the first of the ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! studio album trilogy. On that same day “Oh Love,” the first single from ¡Uno! – the band’s ninth studio album – will be available on the Rock Band Music Store!

Fans can also pick up four other Green Day hits which were previously only available as part of Green Day Rock Band: “Brain Stew/Jaded,” “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” “Warning,” and “Minority”.

These four songs, along with “Oh Love,” will be available as part of “Green Day Pack 03” or can be purchased individually from the Rock Band Music Store!

Available on Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation®3 system (September 25th, 2012):

• Green Day – “Brain Stew/Jaded”
• Green Day – “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”
• Green Day – “Warning”
• Green Day – “Minority”
• Green Day – “Oh Love” O

(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system October 10th)

Tracks marked with “O” feature support for keyboards.

Price:

$ 8.49, £4.39 UK, € 6.59 EU (680 Microsoft Points, 850 Wii Points™) for the “Green Day Pack 03”
$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points ™, 200 Wii Points™) per song
$0.99 USD (80 Microsoft Points™, 100 Wii Points™), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade

** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **

Green morning, green day, won't you see things my way?

[hmxhenry]

And here are your RBN songs:

Here are the Rock Band Network songs that hit Xbox 360 on Thursday, 9/20/2012:

Metal

Amberian Dawn – “Cold Kiss” (160 MSP)
Ava Inferi – “Majesty” (160 MSP)
Edenshade – “Things I’ll Just Pretend” (80 MSP)
Edenshade – “Things I’ll Just Pretend (2x Bass Pedal)” (80 MSP)
Halcyon Way – “Our Finest Hour (2x Bass Pedal)” (80 MSP)
Soma Dark – “Resolute” (80 MSP)
Strikken – “Closer” (80 MSP)”
The Unguided – “Phoenix Down” (160 MSP)

Pop-Rock

Astra Kelly – “Like Never Before” (80 MSP)
Mikel James – “Back to You” (160 MSP)

Prog

Shylo Elliott – “Phantasmal Cruise” (80 MSP)
Shylo Elliott – “Phantasmal Cruise (2x Bass Pedal)” (80 MSP)

Punk

Flatfoot 56 – “I Believe It” (160 MSP)

Rock

A Life Divided – “Doesn’t Count” (80 MSP)


And here are the PS3 RBN Releases for Tuesday, 9/25/2012 (North America) and 10/2/2012 (Europe):

SikTh - "Bland Street Bloom" ($1.99) - Metal
Aiden - "Broken Bones" ($1.99) - Punk
Close Your Eyes - "Keep the Lights On" ($1.99) - Punk
Jeremy Manjorin - "Skinny Seventeen" ($0.99) - Rock
Edge - "Flesh and Blood" ($0.99) - Alternative

“Bland Street Bloom” will be released in Europe on PS3 on Sept. 26. The European release of the other 4 RBN songs has been delayed by 1 week from Sept. 26 to Oct. 3.

And here is an anticipatory FAQ for the Green Day DLC!

Since there are bound to be a few additional questions about next week's Green Day DLC, I wanted to pop in with a few preemptive details here. I'll be responding to further questions as they pop up in the official discussion thread as usual.

Q: Why are you releasing songs that were previously available on Green Day: Rock Band?

A: As we've done with several of the Track Pack releases in the past, we wanted to release these Green Day songs as DLC to make them available to as many people as possible. GD:RB was released over 2 years ago and may not be readily available at retail any longer, so offering songs as DLC will give all RB3 and RB Blitz players access to these highly requested tracks.


Q: Will you be releasing more songs from GD:RB as DLC? Will you be releasing more new Green Day songs?

A: Yes, we will be releasing the full GD:RB set list as DLC at some point in the near future. Keep posted to future DLC announcements if you'd like to grab songs from Dookie, American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. We don't have any other new Green Day content on the schedule, but that doesn't mean we can't revisit once Oh Love is out.


Q: Will the GD:RB songs have RB3 features now that they are available as DLC?

A: The GD:RB songs will function as DLC just as they did if you had exported them. That means pro drums in all songs and harmonies where applicable. None of these tracks will have keyboard charting since 1) they are pre RB3 files that would have been incredibly difficult to update and 2) from what the Music Licensing team has told me, only one of the GD:RB songs had keys recorded.


Q: Will "Oh Love" be playable in GD:RB?

A: No, "Oh Love" is being submitted as RB3 DLC, which means it's not compatible with pre RB3 titles like GD:RB, RB2, RB1, etc.


Q: Is this Green Day DLC compatible with the same tracks exported from GD:RB?

A: Yes. If you snag this DLC, it will be playable online with your friends that have exported the same songs from GD:RB. They are compatible in online gameplay and they share the same leaderboards.

Some notable quotes form hmxhenry later on in the thread, for those who don't have time to read the whole thing:

...about how we're going to roll out the rest of GDRB: the current plan is to release all of the remaining tracks in one week in the near future.

We're not putting this out because we're starved for content and there's nothing in the pipeline. [...] We still have DLC lined up for months and we're still supporting Blitz, the game we just released a few weeks ago.

[sillystou]

riot!!!!!!!!!!!

only 1 song this week.....(for those who got the Greenday game already)

[Cipher_Peon]

For the rest of the Green Day catalog, is there a possibility for pro upgrades for them?

[TheStuddz]

Wait, so these old GD:RB songs won't have keys where applicable? So they're literally the exact same songs?

[TheStuddz]

But hey everyone, we got a 5-pack!..?

I guess..?

[sillystou]

But hey everyone, we got a 5-pack!..?

I guess..?

this made me LOL.

[Edwardoo]

I still dont understeand this, why?
Because it´s pointless, GD:RB Export costs only 800 points, but if you are going to buy full GD:RB Setlist as a DLC it will cost I dont know, about 7040 Points, so for Newcomers and Blitz players it´s 1 000 000 times better to buy GD:RB and the Export, also I don´t believe we will see Pro Upgrades, because it´s the exactly the same versions like in GD:RB and they sayed it will not include RB3 Upgrades,
so yeah, this is the worst DLC Rock Band could ever got, if it would include Keys and Pro Guitar ok, but this is just terrible DLC,
better thing would be Beatles DLC,but I still love you Harmonix for other DLCs

[Everclearboy]

^ This.. plus.. Ive never had a problem going to a Best Buy or Gamestop and there NOT being a hard copy of GD:RB on hand for 14.99

Being Lazy.. and that's what it is. .Lazy.. and not including RB3 versions with Keys charted is a poor choice. A large portion of the work is already done with the songs, charting the Keyboard parts can't be harder than doing a song completely from scratch never in the game.

If the Country Pack hadn't got the Keys treatment before.. I prolly wouldn't be as disappointed as I am right now with this news... But Last Night on Earth Deserves its Keys!

[Lowlander2]

But hey everyone, we got a 5-pack!..?

I guess..?

Do not even go there, man.