Rock Band - DLC Done Right

Rorschach · 2008-08-26T22:30:36.000Z

That’s roughly 40 times they’ve released at least three songs every single week.

VegasRobb · 2008-08-26T22:33:04.000Z

Funkula:

I’m probably the only person who thinks this way, but I would pick Roll the Bones. It was their last really good album before they spiraled into suck, and it’s got the most phenomenal bass work of their career in my opinion.

You’re not alone. Roll the Bones would be great. Unfortunately, I think most Rush fans rank it below their early albums.

MattKeil · 2008-08-26T23:31:37.000Z

Funkula:

I don’t think this has happened with any of their DLC, period. I think this is the first time they’ve gone a Tuesday without new stuff.

Which is actually really impressive when you think about it.

Absolutely. I’m just bitter it happened with the album I was most excited for the day before I had to leave town for PAX. :(

Man, I want to play master track Limelight.

Midnight_Son · 2008-08-27T01:19:27.000Z

No “Red Barchetta” in my driveway this morning either!

CSL · 2008-08-27T02:16:08.000Z

Why does this have to happen on Rush week of all weeks.

wumpus · 2008-08-27T06:06:27.000Z

This is some bull.

Any updates / ETA? Technical problem? Licensing problem? Sexual problem?

ZekeDMS · 2008-08-27T06:18:57.000Z

No Rush’s seminal album moving pictures yet? God, I really want to pick that one up.

There’s only one thing to do now, and that’s to update the alert to BLACKWATCH PLAID

Yeah, that’s right Harmonix. Think about that a minute.

delirium · 2008-08-27T06:51:34.000Z

Jeez…if QT3 is getting this worked up over the delay, I can’t imagine the kind of death and destruction that’s going on at the more fanatical places like ScoreHero and the official forum.

Fugitive · 2008-08-27T06:52:17.000Z

delirium:

Jeez…if QT3 is getting this worked up over the delay, I can’t imagine the kind of death and destruction that’s going on at the more fanatical places like ScoreHero and the official forum.

Oh they’ve been locking threads left and right at the official site…

WhollySchmidt · 2008-08-27T08:51:47.000Z

Is wumpus the one that’s had a crazy sense of entitlement all along about what Rock Band should be doing for him? I really can’t remember, so apologies if I’ve gotten my forum members mixed up.

Reldan · 2008-08-27T09:22:33.000Z

Wholly Schmidt:

Is wumpus the one that’s had a crazy sense of entitlement all along about what Rock Band should be doing for him? I really can’t remember, so apologies if I’ve gotten my forum members mixed up.

I thought that was MS.

WhollySchmidt · 2008-08-27T10:49:03.000Z

You’re probably right, sorry wumpus!

Rock8man · 2008-08-27T10:50:43.000Z

That was definitely Midnight Son. Wumpus is the crazy one who buys every single song ever released for DLC. And sometimes even bought some songs twice, I believe, because of his work/home Xbox situation.

I admire his philosophy, and I’d match it if I had the funds.

wumpus · 2008-08-27T10:56:16.000Z

Daddy needs his DLC fix. This is so not cool.

delirium · 2008-08-27T11:01:45.000Z

This isn’t exactly thread related, but I just wanted to brag for a moment that I just broke a total score of 9 million on the guitar campaign!

Reldan · 2008-08-27T11:09:27.000Z

delirium:

This isn’t exactly thread related, but I just wanted to brag for a moment that I just broke a total score of 9 million on the guitar campaign!

This calls for a thread titled:

SSJ Delirium - POWER LEVEL 9 MILLION!

Rock8man · 2008-08-27T11:33:12.000Z

Congratulations delirium. That’s crazy good. I haven’t played the solo guitar tour in a long time, in favor of DLC and Band World Tour, so my score was never maximized. But I remember that I was hovering around 4 million.

Midnight_Son · 2008-08-27T12:42:08.000Z

Wholly Schmidt:

Is wumpus the one that’s had a crazy sense of entitlement all along about what Rock Band should be doing for him?

I deserve better!

(That’s not entitlement, is it?)

UPDATE:

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74541

Hey everybody,

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen technical difficulties, we won’t be able to release Rush’s “Moving Pictures” this week. We’ll be working on it as hard as we can, but it looks like it could be a couple of weeks to fix. In the meantime we will be moving around our schedule so we still have DLC coming out each week (including this week, info to follow in another announcement).

Look forward to some exciting news this weekend, from PAX and elsewhere.

A couple of weeks? Wow, I wonder what the problem is?

JPR · 2008-08-27T13:02:33.000Z

That’s pretty disappointing.

Since they’re releasing something else, it must not be related to a 255 song limit (as someone conjectured upthread). The only thing that makes sense is that there were unforseen problems with the whole “no vocals” thing.

Fugitive · 2008-08-27T13:06:24.000Z

You’d think it would have come up in their own internal testing, unless they announced it before they were actually finished putting the tracks together (though the announcement was pretty recent). (Edit: Or maybe they discovered it screws up the production leaderboards or website tracking in ways that weren’t obvious in their much smaller debug environments.)

Oh well, my wallet was already hurting pretty badly this week anyway.