sluggo
2901
My comment wasn’t meant as some global statement on pricing – it was just me sharing a personal reaction.
There’s been a lot of unknown stuff lately that I haven’t bought, and it’s had nothing to do with price – even after listening to it, I had no interest, even if it was half off. For me, this is a rare case where price might have gotten me off the fence.
But I totally understand why it’s full price – it’s clear these guys are big in the UK and it’ll probably sell well at the normal price. But I’d be curious how these tracks would do if they had a limited-time discount two months from now.
Well there’s an easy way to find that out. Is there any way for us to tell how the Fall Out Boy tracks off their new record did? They totally did that, but in reverse (put them on sale early, went to full price later, which seems backwards to me, but whatever).
salwon
2903
Is there a site tracking sales of these things? I know Harmonix releases data every so often, but what about week-by-week?
And when will we get a new round of this?
sluggo
2904
That’s only “easy” if you work for Harmonix or MTV. I don’t think that info is readily accessible to the rest of us. :)
That old rockbandmetrics thread was based on stats compiled by the DLCstats site, which ceased operation after RB2 came out, because of the complications involved with tracking 2 games. I dunno if anyone else is tracking those stats, and I suspect that’s not something Harmonix and MTV will get too specific with for a number of reasons.
It’s doubtful that we’ll get a new round of that, since those were compiled from dlcstats.com and it looks like that site stopped updating in September, unfortunately. That’s a shame, because I thought it was very interesting to look at the numbers that dlcstats put up.
wumpus
2906
because I thought it was very interesting to look at the numbers that dlcstats put up.
Except as I predicted their numbers were completely fucking wrong, since they assumed that guitar solo scores were representative of overall downloads.
Now that the NXE allows us to sort downloads per game by popularity, we can see how fucked these “rankings” really were.
For example, “Cherry Bomb”, which was below the bottom of the chart according to their metrics, is in the middle of the chart now.
Do we know what time frame the NXE “popularity” sorting uses? You seem to be implying that popularity is rated on an overall basis, but I thought I saw something on MTV’s multiplayer blog at some point that seemed to indicate that popularity is only measured on a short term basis, so it’s perhaps weekly popularity, or some other such time-frame, for example?
JPR
2908
I just wanted to pop in to mention that the Thin Lizzy pack is pretty great on guitar. The only song I was familiar with was The Boys Are Back In Town, and I’ve never liked it very much. The track is quite fun, and I was interested to see that it includes tons of grace notes that are barely discernible in the recording. Usually Harmonix eschews that sort of thing, but they are here in full effect, and the song is pretty tough.
Jailbreak is fun, too, and the song is pretty good, but the real pleasant surprise for me was Cowboy Song. I’ve never heard it before, but it’s pretty fantastic. And I really like the chart – one part of it is a lot like Strutter (which was one of my favorite songs to play in GH2), the solo is tough but doable, and there are some fun pull offs/hammer ons throughout. There is a brief interlude where they ask the audience to clap that I could do without, but it doesn’t mar the experience too badly.
Even if you don’t think you like Thin Lizzy, I would suggest you check out the charts.
Guns N Roses’ Chinese Democracy album is coming to Rock Band 2 this spring some time.
I have to admit that even though I hated the one song from that album on RB2 at first, it really grew on me quickly. So I’m not sure how I should feel about this. Cautiously optimistic I guess.
Huh. I can think of four songs not including Shackler’s that I’d probably want, but I doubt I’d get the full album. They’d better cut that longass intro from the title track.
Shadarr
2911
Chinese Democracy is like all the new Motley Crue they released earlier–it may not totally suck, but it’s still not what people want from the band.
walTer
2912
Grabbed Thin Lizzy… Cowboy Song was my favorite TL song, so when I saw this was part of the pack…became a must buy-although the fact that they are live…eh, I think it does tend to take away from the songs-- the studio version of Cowboy is much better-imho.
That coupled with the Steve Miller pack…it seems our family can’t stop playing.
sluggo
2913
I tried to get into Chinese Democracy, but only the first three songs stuck for me. The rest of the album sounded like too much string-laden mid-tempo or November Rain-ish stuff to me.
So, like Shadarr said … not awful, but I wanted an album of Out Ta Get Me and You Could Be Mine. Shackler’s ended up being my favorite track. :( I’d probably only end up buying 3 or 4 more songs.
Just popping into the thread to ask, is there a list of things that the RB 2 patches have done or fixed for the 360 version? I would swear that I’ve seen a couple of new rockers in the RB2 stable the last couple of times I’ve played, including a sort of heavy short dude that I’d never seen before.
That link to the Chinese Democracy news is odd. Check this part out:
“Chinese Democracy” is appreciated, but the real question lingers: what about “Appetite for Destruction”? “November Rain” demands the full “Rock Band” experience.
November Rain isn’t even on Appetite. That said, I’d kill for Welcome to the Jungle and Rocket Queen.
Last 24 hours.
If someone points me to newer/better data, should they exist, I would update the statistical analysis.
walTer
2918
He needs the money? Can you even play this stuff on RB? Wat?
ZekeDMS
2920
That’s uh…different.
I’m willing to give it a chance though, because this might be a lot of fun if done right and, you know, actually happens. I’m sure plenty of songs can be broken down to instrumental components anyway, so…yeah. I guess I’ll just wait and see what songs I’m looking at, because I’m always down to for gin and juice.
