Rock Band DLC is ending after 5 years and 4,000 songs
Yeah, you read that correctly. The DLC for Rock Band is stopping on April 2nd. After more than five years where we had songs from some of the most popular artists in the world like AC/DC, Lady Gaga, The Who, The Beatles, Green Day and Aerosmith.
There are many reasons for this like the decline of plastic-instrument-based games after 2010 and that Harmonix is working in several new non-Rock-Band-games that must make the work in the DLC for Rock Band harder, but hey we should all remember the happy moments of happiness that some DLC releases brought us.
Anyway, not to be worried people. You still have your games to enjoy! And you still have the sale on all the pre-RB3 songs. The server will be up for the foreseeable future, RBN releases will continue as usual on the Xbox 360, and since they still have the technical capabilities, we can never rule out any special DLC in the future.
You can see the rest of the official announcement here.
That is all for now.
And Rock On g1s!
» Source: http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=233673
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g1 DISCUSSIONS
Fox
Sad day indeed. This was DLC done right, letting you move tracks between games and cherry pick all your favs to make your own personalized playlist. To have supported this weekly for 5 years is amazing.
ThePortlandian
Its fun to bust out at parties, and I have just about every song I ever wanted for it. No real loss to me.
DumpsterM0nkey6
I was just looking at the list last night of whats new :(
Tjoeb123
Something to note (from my version of the news) - uploading RBN songs to Harmonix require and depends on Microsoft's XNA dev platform, which will be retired in 2014.
Also, quite frankly, it's about damn time. I really don't think anyone cares that much about Rock Band (or Guitar Hero) anymore.
Slammer619
How in what F'n way does Rock Band or Guitar Hero releases effect you? Stupidest person on the internet goes to Tjoe
Tjoeb123
It affects me little, but in the grand scheme of things, I feel it's for the best, even though I enjoyed (until I stopped playing RB) the weekly releases.
And I'm not "the stupidest person on the Internet". I do raise valid points in my posts on the Internet, not just on ScrewAttack.