Comments on: Rock Band Network

By: zzxxima

zzxxima — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:50:26 +0000

A way for small unnoticed bands to get recognized, and make money, well played harmonix way better than the disappointing gh tunes.

By: Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:56:19 +0000

Yeah, that’s true — the http://creators.rockband.com requires an XNA membership…

http://creators.xna.com/en-US/membership

I assume once this is set up and running on Xbox they’ll try to scale it to PS3 and Wii in some fashion.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:21:22 +0000

Bummer for PS3 owners like me because this is 360-only.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:39:07 +0000

EPIC!!!

By: kastermester

kastermester — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:04:29 +0000

Finally something that can “fight” piracy without making alot of people really angry – and be really useful and awesome at the same time!

Depending how much the bands and record labels make out of this – this could be the new way of doing things. Release your stuff into the wild, let who ever download your song off your website – get the music out. When they really like it, they purchase it on RBN to play along with in the game. Everyone is happy… at least in the theory of my head, it’s probably not gonna work like that in the real world – but ah well, one can dream.

By: Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:01:53 +0000

Yeah, the review process they’ve built in to the system will hopefully help them scale that out — the community will rate the songs before they’re released to the public. That should prevent any major charting screwups from reaching the RBN store, I would think.

By: Brennan

Brennan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:46:55 +0000

I’m wary of the quality of note programming this will be. Now the Rock Band team are masters, the same can’t necessarily be said for the average Joe.