I know you’ve been waiting for Cannibal Corpse (with lyrics!) as long as I have.
Job for a Cowboy? What a stupid band name…
Not as much as Stormtroopers of Death! Speak English or Die please, HMX!
Oh, I am SO doing Cannibal Corpse at the bar next weekend.
They’re definitely holding the good stuff like Meat Hook Sodomy for RB3. Also, it should be interesting to see where they get Black Magic, given that it’s one of the worst sounding albums (no, not that way) in the universe. If they bring that to life, they’d better get some real Creedence one of these days, although I’m expecting one of those “live” cuts or something.
Ultimately, if they don’t give us a 12 pack of AL CT, they are useless!
I somehow doubt they’re going to put a song with “Sodomy” in the title into Rock Band.
Yes, I know they already have “Beethoven’s Cunt.” Which is the exception that proves the rule.
I guess it’s a foregone conclusion, but do we have any confirmation of RB3? I mean, this year’s product is Beatles:Rock Band, so RB3 would be next year at the earliest, wouldn’t it? That seems like a long time to hold back songs.
Also, don’t they lose money on the game bundles? Wouldn’t they want to release some much anticipated stuff as DLC where it’s all profit, and figure they can toss a bunch of less anticipated stuff onto the disc, where people will still buy it because it’s new, it’s on shelves, and the overall cost / song is better?
Ayuh?
Injection molded plastic is where the biggest margin is. None of the songs are free - all have to be licensed and adapted and mixed down - I would think the opposite would be true and that the incredible markup they get off of the poly toys they toss in the box would imply higher profitability.
Overall cost/song might be better, but they sell a lot more copies of discs like Rock Band 2 than they do of any DLC. So they probably do want to save some real gems for Rock Band 3, just to add appeal to it as a packaged product, not just as an update to their overall Rock Band platform.
RB3 is just a magical place in my head where I keep all of the songs I want to be in this game. Of course, when it actually comes out in 2010 it will consist entirely of Midnight Son’s favorite lp’s and Visions remixes.
I thought I read that they lose money on the peripherals (or maybe just on the Special Edition bundles), but I can’t find a source for it, so I possibly am just mis-remembering something (like conflating EA posting a quarterly loss with a loss on individual products, or something)
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The new Green Day is good, though I’m sure everyone’s sick of Know Your Enemy already.
Cannibal Corpse, seriously?
Songs in Rock Band 2: 84
Price of those songs if they were all DLC: $168
Price of Rock Band 2 (disc only): $60
That’s a loss of about $1.29 per song when compared to releasing it as DLC. This is why I laugh when people say that releasing Rock Band 2 so soon was Harmonix being greedy.
You laugh because you are ignorant. Margin is nice, gross profit is better. If the margin on DLC is $1 compared to 10¢ for on-disc songs, then they make about $80,000 per DLC song (source: 28 million downloads / 345 songs–not corrected for the free songs). Their profit from selling 82 songs as DLC would be $6.5 million. Their profit from selling 2 million copies of the RB2 disc with 82 songs would be $16.4 million.
Obviously, the margin numbers come from my ass. Hopefully you see the point anyway.
Oh no, I’ll get rid of the travesty known as Visions day one. Even I have standards.
I see your point. In fact, I saw your point before you took the time to call me ignorant. Unfortunately, your point is completely irrelevant.
They’re charging less money for more content when they release a disc as opposed to DLC. If that means more people buy, it, that’s great. Do all those people buying it make you, as the consumer, pay more? No? Then how is that Harmonix being greedy?
Don’t waste my time.
Man, I’d kill for some classic Green Day. This new stuff doesn’t do anything for me at all.
Well, if they make a decision to do what brings them the most profit, rather than what is best for their customers, that is the definition of greed. It’s also what every corporation anywhere does all the time, but as far as the content of the impotent fanboi whining, the point is valid.
Well that wasn’t the case with their decision, huh? You really don’t seem to be getting this, so I’ll say it again.
MORE content that costs LESS money. Doesn’t matter if it makes them the richest motherfuckers in the world, that is the opposite of greed. That is being generous.
Even if you don’t like every song on the RB2 disc, (and who does, really,) you still got a discount on songs if there were just 31 songs on the disc that you would have bought as DLC. (And if you liked less than 40% of the songs on the disc, why the hell did you buy it?)
