RBN DLC Discussion: 10/25 (Xbox 360), 10/30 (PS3)

[HMXLachesis]

Xbox 360 RBN Releases for Thursday, 10/25/2012

Rock

John Parr – “Monday Night Football” (80 MSP)
Sincrónica – “EsCupido” (80 MSP)

PS3 RBN Releases for Tuesday, 10/30/2012 (North America) and 10/31/2012 (Europe)

Jocko of Sha Na Na – “The Monster Stroll” ($1.99), Rock
Ava Inferi – “Majesty” ($1.99), Metal
Halcyon Way – “On Black Wings” ($0.99), Metal
Chaotrope – “Fading Sacrifice” ($0.99), Metal
Memory of a Melody – “Things That Make You Scream” ($0.99), Rock

[Groudon199]

Highest percentage of new RBN songs I've purchased in a single week.

[Lowlander2]

Calling Bront, calling Bront, one of your long-awaited songs weirdly came out.

[Bront20]

Calling Bront, calling Bront, one of your long-awaited songs weirdly came out.

I know! And just in time to miss my Halloween RB party this weekend!

Still, yay!

[grimripper82]

Calling Bront, calling Bront, one of your long-awaited songs weirdly came out.

Exactly what I thought when I first read the post. Bront has been asking for that song for a very long time, so even though it's not my cup of tea, I'm glad to see his request finally get fulfilled. Plus there's three new metal songs this week, so even if they aren't any from my list of requests, I'm content.

[TylerFG]

Hmm, really slow week. Might check out the John Parr song.

[Bront20]

Exactly what I thought when I first read the post. Bront has been asking for that song for a very long time, so even though it's not my cup of tea, I'm glad to see his request finally get fulfilled. Plus there's three new metal songs this week, so even if they aren't any from my list of requests, I'm content.

Proof once again that whining and throwing hissy fits will get you what you want.

[Graffin]

Wasn't there a Chaotrope track a couple of weeks ago?
And, again, tracks predominately from the metal genre.
Though, I do like "Things That Make You Scream" - so i'll just be getting that one this week.

Still none of the an Unkindness songs

C'mon HMX, please give us "Fragments" by an Unkindness on the PS3.
Please, pretty please. Do you accept bribes? I'll try anything!

[HMXLachesis]

C'mon HMX, please give us "Fragments" by an Unkindness on the PS3.
Please, pretty please. Do you accept bribes? I'll try anything!

We don't accept bribes. Sorry. But since you ask....

Aside from telling us that you personally want the song (which we've heard, loud and clear), the best way to support an RBN song for PS3 is to convince a) Xbox 360 users to buy it or b) convince other PS3 users that they want it.

Why does it matter whether Xbox users like a given song?

There are many factors used in PS3 song selection, but one key factor is popularity on Xbox. While there are observable differences in genre preference among PS3 players and Xbox players, those differences aren't overwhelming. If a song sells well on Xbox, it will generally sell well on PS3.

Right now (using the leaderboards because we can all see them), there are 152 Xbox band scores on the leaderboards for "Fragments", versus 467 for "Fading Sacrifice". This makes a reasonably strong argument that more people will be happy if we bring "Fading Sacrifice" to PS3 than if we bring "Fragments" to PS3, when those two songs are competing for the same spot (and they are competing for the same spot - effectively, every RBN2 song that has not yet been released on PS3 is in a weekly competition for those five key spots.)

[Graffin]

I don't think it's entirely fair to base it on XBOX360 sales. Users that own an XBOX play very different games and therefore have very different tastes to that of PS3 users.

Sure i'll try and spread the word on here and on Facebook, in the hope that more people buy "Fragments", but I just don't understand the mentality of the song selection process, or why it's limited to just 5 a week. Could this possibly be expanded to 10 a week, considering that regular DLC has slowed down to just 3 songs a week?

A substantial proportion (not all) of the metal songs sound the same, and basically require fast and furious drumming. I'm not bagging metal (there's some that even I like), I just would've thought that more keyboard based songs would be promoted for playing on RB3, since the keyboard is a relatively new instrument.

HMXLachesis, Are you sure there's nothing I can do to twist your arm?

To all XBOX 360 users... please buy "Fragments" by an Unkindness. It's only 80 msp (I think) and hopefully that'll help get it for us PS3 users. Cheers!