| AEGRO said: "Rock Band 4, the newly released title in the long-running music game series has a lot of DLC. A lot. The game is selling a massive amount of music tracks, all individually. If you want to purchase all of them, you’d be out an impressive $3,926. Rock Band 4 offers almost 2,000 songs (1973 or be exact) for sale, and each is selling for $1.99. This is taking micro-transactions to a whole new level. The game launched on October 6 on the PS4 and Xbox One, and ships with 65 songs on the disc. Luckily, if you purchased songs for other Rock Band games on the PS3, you’re able to transfer those to the PS4 and use them. It is quite surprising that they are charging $2 for songs when the same songs can be purchased and owned on iTunes and other platforms for half the price." http://ps4daily.com/2015/10/rock-band-4-has-3926-worth-of-dlc/ Well, there you go guys! This game takes the DLC Crown!
EDIT: I added a Poll, because im seeing very opposite opinions about it. |
As someone who is and was genuinely obsessed with every aspect of these games, including making my own custom note charts, making my own custom GH2 DVDs on PS2 and so forth, this has to be the worst and illest informed article I've read in a long time.
Believe it or not it takes time talent and skill to translate a real song into 4-5 different instruments across multiple difficulties. There's around 20 charts that need to be created for each song that includes all instruments. You need to be trained in game development, you need to know musical theory and so on. These are NOT micro transactions in the traditional sense and generally when a new pack of songs are released each week they are bundled together at a discount or offered a la carte for a flate rate of $2.00.
On iTunes, you can listen to the song. That's it. That's your interaction with the song, that's where it starts and that's where it ends. Not so much the same on guitar hero or rock band. Because these games don't sell anywhere close to the amount of songs that major store fronts like iTunes sell, they're probably getting less of a deal when securing licensing rights that allow them to sell DLC in the first place. Honestly this article is stupid and doesn't know what it's talking about
Oh and BTW, Harmonix is one of the BEST developers out there. If you've followed their history, if you've played their games, if you've grown with them then you know EXACTLY how well they've treated their fans.
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