New DLC Week of 2/05/08

[Dvlos]

Then you answered your own question. Most people not the enlightened few who get it still think its all GH.. Im not just refering to DLC and its not just outselling the competition its building a brand name and unfourtunatly Rockband aint Kleenex...GH is.

Uh, you don't read.

Plenty of GH3 people dissappointed with their purchase.

RB DLC outselling GH3 DLC 2:1 and that's that GH3 has free DLC.

GH3 is Kleenex, Rock Band seems to be more like iPhone, more expensive, but mroe desired.

[dmxkorn]

i can't believe any of you people actually like this dlc this week no wonder why george bush is president this country is full of mindless tv zombies

[Grey_Street]

Here's the thing Harmonix doesn't seem to understand. Kids play video games, period. I'm 27, I'm not a kid. I bought this game for my little brother and saw how fun it was so now I probably play it more than him. But the majority of the Guitar Hero fans/players and now the ones who play Rock Band are younger. I would guess the average age is 14-17 years old.

With that said, there are waaaaaaaaaayyyy too many old songs. If you are going to keep doing the updates, then you need to put out AT LEAST 1 current day song every week. It just makes sense.

Also, if you've sold 2.5 millions songs of DLC already, why the hell aren't you dropping like 10-15 songs a week. You would make $100 million dollars by the end of 2008 EASILY. You make them, we will buy them, the end. This 3 a week thing is stupid; especially when you have a week like this one where I WANT to spend money on new songs but there isn't anything good that's coming out.

Don't you want my money? Sometimes it seems like you don't....just my two cents, carry on everyone!

Wow, you are wrong. As someone else said...the average gamer is 29. The largest demographic for games is 25-35 I believe. Especially for a game like this that is more of a "get together game". I'm the among the youngest in my group at work(25) and I've had 3 seperate co-worker Rock Band parties each with return players.

Also, who do you think has more money to d/l the songs? A 16yo kid or me, a 25yo DINK(Dual Income No Kids)? I think the B52's song will be great...they totally remind me of the roller skating rink in middle school. This will be an awesome party song, which is what should help make up Rock Band's(a party game) library.

I'm not a big fan of the other two songs, but two of my coworkers actually had this on there mp3 playlists at the time of the announcement...so I'll certainly get them for parties.

[JetWolf]

i can't believe any of you people actually like this dlc this week no wonder why george bush is president

I just don't ... wow. Wow.

[Dvlos]

Ask a casual player to Name a KISS, FNM, or B-52 song . . . Betcha the DLC songs will not be mentioned too often

Which, I might add, is what everyone is up in arms about.

I understand that completely, they are not my first choice songs...

Please re-read my previous posts on that matter though, and what HMX has posted in the past, and just the nature of the music industry. There are record labels/artists to get past.. everyone ignores that and keeps going:

- WelL Id ont recoGniz3 thees sungs!

Not every week you're going to get "Limelight" or "My Sharona" though, even that Metallica pack which is their best seller as a pack, I think if you asked the most casual fans out there to pick their favorite Metallica songs "Enter Sandman" and probably a couple of their more chilled out songs from the Black album. They can easily check billboard charts and see what was the most popular... and just churn those out but again.. record labels/record companies/artists.

The only thing I will say about this is that some artists are totally on board... Look at Metallica, Enter Sandman is on the main setlist, with a metallica pack already out, One is announced, so is an unnamed Metalliac album... AND probably when their latest songs are ready it will debut on RB as well. Personally I've grown to detest Metallica but I have newfound appreciation for their apparent approval of RB... perhaps as RB's popularity grows you'll see more artists follow the path QoTSA and Metallica have apparently taken.

[Smidget]

I just don't ... wow. Wow.

hahaha, couldn't have been said better

[xxpigxx]

SO we get the B-52's instead of Metallica

yay!

I recognize the songs. Heck, they are on my Zen mp3 player. But the song choices are atrocious.

As far as licensing, etc . . . you mean to tell me that MTV/EA can't persuade someone to fork over a license to a gaming company (HMX) that has proven itself twice over (GH, GH II).

[Grey_Street]

SO we get the B-52's instead of Metallica

yay!

I recognize the songs. Heck, they are on my Zen mp3 player. But the song choices are atrocious.

As far as licensing, etc . . . you mean to tell me that MTV/EA can't persuade someone to fork over a license to a gaming company (HMX) that has proven itself twice over (GH, GH II).

SO, you just want a full track list of Metallica? Sounds a little repetive to me. This will be a fun party song, and a welcome change from some of the other content. There are 4 Metallica songs already, and while I welcome more because they are some of my favorites, I also welcome songs of that path as well.

Even if it was Metallica this week, if it was anything post Black Album you'd have just as many people complaining

[_187_]

there's more going on behind the scenes with harmonix, microsoft, sony and these labels and artists than I am sure any of us can imagine. Be glad for the support HMX has poured into the game thus far. Not every week is gonna be the most wicked awesome week ever for dlc. No one twists your arm to download anything so just play what ya got and wait for next week.

[golfstrom]

i'm happy w/ the DLC each week as long as Harmonix sticks to putting out good bands and good music. This is definitely true so far, except for that one week where they released Blink.

I also wanted to say that the most vocal ppl on msg boards tend to be the, say, 13-22 years old that live on the net, and so when the DLC doesn't have anything from at least the yr 2000, or that was featured on TRL, they're all going to freak out and go nuts on this board. Just pay no attention to them and buy the good DLC...