Green Day got the full game DLC... so why not Rock Band 2?

[gamesover101]

I've been looking for a new copy of RB2 for ages. I've went to every retail store that I could possibly think of surfing for a new copy of this precious gem but didn't have any luck. So, since Green Day Rock Band had the privilege of getting released as DLC, does anyone think they might do the same for RB2 in the future?

[www1221]

Because its easier to work with one band, one label, to allow Harmonix to release the songs as dlc than 84 of them.

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[jibjqrkl]

I've been looking for a new copy of RB2 for ages. I've went to every retail store that I could possibly think of surfing for a new copy of this precious gem but didn't have any luck. So, since Green Day Rock Band had the privilege of getting released as DLC, does anyone think they might do the same for RB2 in the future?

http://www.ebay.com/

[thatmarkguy]

They've already said no. Why not? Because getting Green Day DLC requires licensing tracks by one artist and one label. Basically one set of meetings between HMX's legal/finance people and one team of label reps. To relicense a game that has 50+ tracks scattered between 50+ artists and across all four big labels and their sublabels.. is a monumentally greater effort.

[mikeyts]

New copies of RB2 are available for all platforms at Amazon, all eligible for Prime shipping.

[Santa Claustrophobia]

Also, new copies are only important for the Free 20. A used copy in good condition is still otherwise playable and importing RB2 songs only requires a code (and ten dollars) that is easy enough to acquire legitimately if the original doesn't work on its own.

And yeah, HMX is very unlikely to go through the song list for RB2 and try to individually license them for release as DLC. They're only making the effort for the songs that were not included in the import.

[www1221]

importing RB2 songs only requires a code (and ten dollars)

An unused code which you will likely not find in a used copy of the game.

[Santa Claustrophobia]

An unused code which you will likely not find in a used copy of the game.

Do you even know what I'm talking about? The actual status of the code in a used copy of RB2 is immaterial. Even buying a used copy of RB2 that doesn't even include the game manual is not an impediment to importing the RB2 tracks.

[thatmarkguy]

An unused code which you will likely not find in a used copy of the game.

I don't understand this 'likely not'. RB2 sold about 2 million units. The most popular RB2-export track has logged, what, 85,000 scores in RB3? The overwhelming majority of copies piling up at pawnshops, craigslist, and garage sales were owned by people who never exported it.

Sure, there's a risk of it being already-redeemed. But I'd say it's far from 'likely'. The number of RB2 manual codes that have actually been redeemed for RB3 export is a distinct minority.

[Santa Claustrophobia]

I don't understand this 'likely not'. RB2 sold about 2 million units. The most popular RB2-export track has logged, what, 85,000 scores in RB3? The overwhelming majority of copies piling up at pawnshops, craigslist, and garage sales were owned by people who never exported it.

Sure, there's a risk of it being already-redeemed. But I'd say it's far from 'likely'. The number of RB2 manual codes that have actually been redeemed for RB3 export is a distinct minority.

To be fair, they could be referring to a situation where the game manual is simply not in the case for a used purchase. So you likely will not find the code for use.

But, yeah. Going by your guess, a consumer is far more likely to find a code that can be used to import the RB2 songs (though potentially not the Free 20) into RB3 than not. Even bumping the numbers of imports to 200,000 still would mean a nine in ten chance of a working code.

That's a better result than the last three weeks of the Pepsi promo...