Rock Blog Friday 11/16/07 4 Days!

[hmxsean]

4 days to launch. Can you feel it? I can. Pressure's on, friend. In 4 days this game will be released and a new age will be upon us. Bronze Age, Iron Age, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Modern Age, Rock Band. The world shall know rock and we shall be its herald! HUZZAH!

Huzzah indeed. Ok this will be the last time I mention it (unless something huge and spectacular happens) but elsewhere on the site we have opened a merch store that has a bunch of gear the is Rock Band and a bunch of other stuff from other places that is just rock - for instance there is a section where you can inexplicably chart a jet? Why? Because. That's why. Store is here.

Lots of craziness this week with all the announcements and the first reviews and the DLC and all that. I'd like to pass on the personal thanks of Big Daddy (our VP of Operations) who posted the big "What should DLC cost?" thread back in May and most of you responded to. It really did help us guide some of choices about DLC and he sends along his thanks. He may post himself a few days to pass it along himself but I wanted to let you know.

Spent a few days in NYC this week which was fun. We shot a show for MTV called "The Big Ten" which is, believe it or not, a program that shows videos. Music videos. Maria, Drake, DanT, and myself headed down to be the show's house band to play the game into and out of commercials. It airs on Monday at 9:00am and we play 5 songs total. It was wicked fun. DanT writes a little about it and posted a picture from it in his blog.

Anything else? Yes! On Monday we will be turning the profiles off on the site so if you want to backup your blogs you may want to go in there and copy/paste text as well as make not of the friends you will want to re-add on Day 1. I know it is a bit of a hassle but I imagine it will be well worth it!

Lastly welcome our two newest community moderators - Tbradshaw and Feigned. I think you will find both of them to be most accommodating and help with the fugazi of insanity that will descend upon our happy hamlet next week.

Blogs!

An Australian in NY. A lot like that Crocodile Dundee movie.




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[ThePaska]

Two new mods eh?! congrats guys, and welcome!

4 days, I can't even believe it, yesterday it was 4 months away!

I love the new shop, I want almost all of those t-shirts, I guess those could be some nice Christmas presents for me! I also need to get my hands on a mic stand ASAP.

NYC is awesome, I'll keep a lookout for when they air big ten, I can't believe they still play music on MTV.

[SoraRikuVGM]

Congrats, you new mods! It's a huge responsibility, but I'm sure you guys will do fine.

[Eman311]

4 days *head explodes*

I am totally buying a shirt as well.

[Apples]

I was wondering who that big daddy guy was, I saw a picture of him on the wall in the game-testing room.

[Xzyliac]

Aww...HeXcoda will be a mod soon enough. I am sure of it!

But congrats to Feigned. Tbradshaw bad mouthed Helen so he is not deserving of any congrats from me. Not until he says sorry.

[sa_nick]

Congrats, you new mods! It's a huge responsibility, but I'm sure you guys will do fine.

*high five* for being a RB veteran, wasn't sure if you were still posting or not. Did u ever get around to buying a 360 or ps3?

P.S. sorry for being so off topic, lol

[HMXJohnlok]

Aww...HeXcoda will be a mod soon enough. I am sure of it!

But congrats to Feigned. Tbradshaw bad mouthed Helen so he is not deserving of any congrats from me. Not until he says sorry.

We already kicked his face in as penance.

(Not really)

[SmokaCola]

Speaking of mods... *cough* Xzyliac *cough*. I in now was was implying anything! Anyways, congrats you guys. I'm more than sure you'll do a great job. And thanks for the info Sean.

[SoraRikuVGM]

*high five* for being a RB veteran, wasn't sure if you were still posting or not. Did u ever get around to buying a 360 or ps3?

P.S. sorry for being so off topic, lol

Yea, as you can tell from my siggy. lol

On topic - Xzyliac and SmokaCola for mod! I've been campaigning this for about 3 years now, so it better happen