Rock Band in 2013 and beyond

[SheSaidSheSaid]

i don't think it would go down to 1-2 songs a week. more likely it would go to bi-weekly or monthly DLC releases to maintain at least 3-6 songs per release.

Ionno, they seem pretty proud of the streak.


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[jimmychou]

Until the end of time, or 2014 whatever comes first? I would guess most their profit comes from Dance Central.

I did not mean literally until the end of time, I meant until HMX stops putting it out. I just didn't want to be so blunt.

I laughed at your sarcasim, then realized you're serious. Really? Never going to be a patch ever. All but confimed multiple times, the most recent being the explosion of the bug fix thread.

I was being sarcastic, lol. I don't expect a patch. I guess im stuck with shaking microphones and clipping

[bigmf]

Rockband is pining for the fjords.

[SideshowN]

I would love to see new plastic instruments made with a 6th fret button. There are tons of people who have pretty much mastered the 5 button gameplay and adding a new button could spring some life into a new game.

[Mr-TyK]

Rockband is pining for the fjords.

No no, its just resting.

[Bront20]

Ugh. no. If you want more buttons, go pro.

[LoopyChew]

I predict they will continue with DLC but a new game is highly unlikely for Rock Band dude. Maybe 1 to 2 songs a week bruther for 2013 dude. Dance Central is the new fad bruther.

I respectfully disagree. DLC is still the bread and butter of the Rock Band franchise (and, arguably, Harmonix in general at the moment); they started out with 3 a week, we're continuing with 3 a week. By putting out products like Blitz, they're trying to maximize our investment in DLC (so we buy more, so they make more) while minimizing their investment in physical instruments. The more games they can build around the currently unprecedented DLC library (and the more people play those games--maybe not any specific one, but all of them as a family), the more reason they'll continue to support the DLC.

[NeilDiamond1974]

I'd still like to think that with a Rocksmith-type adapter, RB4 could use real guitars to play the classic charts to help build up finger strength. Later people could try something like the current pro mode when/if they felt up to it. Then you wouldn't need plastic guitars, just a cheap special mic/line adapter. The only downside is that people would need to actually tune their guitars and people would probably need to do separate strings for chords. (Maybe for chords, some kind of translation of the track can be done as with Blitz to make it work out better so people are sort of practicing real basic chords.) Would that be so bad? Also considering how fast plastic guitars wear out, many people could have purchased real cheap electric guitars by now. (Even bass guitars could work that way.)

For the rest, midi works great.

[tnevaker]

I would love to see new plastic instruments made with a 6th fret button. There are tons of people who have pretty much mastered the 5 button gameplay and adding a new button could spring some life into a new game.

how about 97 more buttons?

[tnevaker]

I'd still like to think that with a Rocksmith-type adapter, RB4 could use real guitars to play the classic charts to help build up finger strength. Later people could try something like the current pro mode when/if they felt up to it. Then you wouldn't need plastic guitars, just a cheap special mic/line adapter. The only downside is that people would need to actually tune their guitars and people would probably need to do separate strings for chords. (Maybe for chords, some kind of translation of the track can be done as with Blitz to make it work out better so people are sort of practicing real basic chords.) Would that be so bad? Also considering how fast plastic guitars wear out, many people could have purchased real cheap electric guitars by now. (Even bass guitars could work that way.)

For the rest, midi works great.

there are too many problems trying to make RS tech work with the current pro charts. for starters, every song that has bends would suddenly be mischarted. also, the pro charts only tell you the fret/string combination to play, not the actual note. unless they've been secretly including more information in the charts, there's no way to know what specific musical note each fret/string combination corresponds too, given all the alt-tunings and drop tunings used in different songs.

bottom line is, if they wanted to shift to using some kind of Rocksmith-style note detection technology, they'd need all new charts. current pro charts would become obsolete.