What Happened to Flame Notes In Rockband Blitz?????

[Epsilon82]

At the end of the day, that's still 99% of the player base that, in your words, isn't affected. Whether they were fine with it, wholeheartedly in support of it, or didn't even realize it happened, it was a change that affected 1% of the player base. And that 1% wasn't happy with the change and we changed it back. To support that 1%. We do a ton of hardcore support with RB, always have, and Blitz is no exception. We listened to the feedback of a few high end super users, made a request for dev time to correct it, and pushed it through for you.

My point was more that the people you seemingly dismiss as the "vocal minority" are in actuality closer to 100% of the people who actually care about the game in any significant way, particularly when your stated purpose for the change is to facilitate Tournaments, which are literally the highest level play you can get. The nerf ONLY affected that 1%, so saying that 99% of people weren't affected is meaningless. It just felt like a way to marginalize us in the same way people do with those holding really extreme political ideologies. Throughout this process, that just annoyed me a little, that's all.

In short, we're really the only people this affected, which is precisely why it's silly to cast us as some kind of vocal minority. We were the overwhelming majority of people affected. It doesn't matter if 99% percent of the people were unaffected if almost 100% of those who are are affected extremely negatively.

I'm not sure what else you're hoping for. An admission of guilt? 10 weeks of Blitz time back that you didn't enjoy during Tournaments? We've rebalanced Flame notes specifically in reaction to the feedback in this thread. We won't be able to do that all the time, but in this instance we were able to and we're glad that the majority of people are pleased with the change.

I don't want to sound ungrateful and overly negative, because as I've said before it would been easy for Harmonix to just ignore the issue entirely. I guess I was just rubbed the wrong way by your invocation of the people in this thread as some kind of outlying minority group.

Of course I don't expect a formal apology, but like MaximusDM said, it seems a little patronizing to basically say "OK, even though a ton of people who barely play the game didn't suddenly develop a nuanced understanding of the mechanical underpinnings and start complaining, we're going to placate you whining 1% by putting things back the way they were." It would be nice, at the very least, to have at least some kind of acknowledgment that our arguments here were valid. Instead, the tone seems to be "we admit no mistake on our part, but you're annoying us with your yelling so here take this bone and be happy."

At the end of the day, it's mostly water under the bridge at this point, and I do again thank you for making the change happen. And you have established yourself as someone credible who deserves a great deal of the benefit of the doubt with regard to interactions with users. I just feel like certain aspects of your discussion of the rationale and reasoning could be a little more diplomatic than marginalizing us as the "vocal minority." While that label may be technically accurate, it isn't functionally equivalent to the way that phrase is used in other contexts.

[agentnnc]

I was joking around... but what if... what if... They want us to believe it's not an April Fool's Joke.

Sigh...If that's the case I will be wearing a tin foil hat for the rest of my life.

[MaximusDM]

Of course I don't expect a formal apology, but like MaximusDM said, it seems a little patronizing to basically say "OK, even though a ton of people who barely play the game didn't suddenly develop a nuanced understanding of the mechanical underpinnings and start complaining, we're going to placate you whining 1% by putting things back the way they were." It would be nice, at the very least, to have at least some kind of acknowledgment that our arguments here were valid. Instead, the tone seems to be "we admit no mistake on our part, but you're annoying us with your yelling so here take this bone and be happy."

Pride goeth before a fall.
Never forget proverbs.

[Santa Claustrophobia]

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Never forget classics.

[pelemerengue]

I'm not exactly sure why people are still arguing, but I'm not going to dig through several pages of this thread to find out. All I understand is that it sounds like flame notes have been restored, and to celebrate, I'm going to buy a few new songs and play a ton of Blitz for the first time in months.

THANKS HARMONIX!

EDIT: I guess by "play a ton of Blitz" I'll have to settle for "play three songs in Blitz", my connection to the Rock Central servers keeps dropping. Buh.