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Harmonix pulls the plug on weekly Rock Band Unplugged DLC

Posted Dec 1, 2009 at 11:17AM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: News, Titles, Games Tags: Harmonix
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No wonder Rock Band Unplugged DLC has been conspicuously absent from Harmonix's past two weekly Rock Band DLC releases. Harmonix has apparently decided to pull the plug on the service.

While Harmonix notes that they're very pleased with Unplugged's performance, the weekly DLC releases will no longer be coming. Unplugged DLC may possibly appear in the future, but only as "part of event releases."

The team behind the weekly releases is reportedly focusing now on Rock Band Network, weekly console DLC, and unannounced future projects." Right now, the game has more than 100 on-disc and downloadable songs combined.

Via Joystiq



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# It'sGuest 2009-12-01 12:52
Just like Guitar Hero. Focused on ONE game.

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# Well...doubleaa25 2009-12-01 13:36
Guitar Hero is focused on the latest game. They do not release DLC for World Tour anymore so people buy Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero.

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# its not that hard to make a song..Asskickulater 2009-12-01 13:55
i really dont understand whats so hard about this..I can fret a song in about an hour...they act like it takes days to do...hell they could have even just put one man on the project, they only released like 3 songs per week...thats like 3 hours of work...guess the PSP will never be respected as a console to the devs =/

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# you forget about rights?truk 2009-12-01 17:24
there's legal issues.

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# ...Guest 2009-12-01 18:12
i dont think they were making the money they wanted off of it.... im not going to buy a song thats a Dollar when i could get a bunch more songs on 1 disk with guitar hero for same amount

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# wellAsskickulater 2009-12-01 19:35
legal issues, ever notice how all the songs on RB:U are already on the console versions? that tells me their copyright allowed them to switch those tracks over cheaply, and they said they were pleased with the results, so they were making money, the only possible excuse is copyrights, but i think they had some kind of deal going or else they would have added some unique songs to RB:U

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# a lot of work...Miclowgunman 2009-12-01 20:39
goes into making the tracks feel right. If you know anything about recording music, there could be 5 or 6 guitars tracks that they have to compress into one stream on one guitar. match that up with all four instruments, and i think Harmonix said from legal process to finish product it takes about a week for a group to do. So for 5 song a week you need 5 groups. Unpluged would require that many more groups, so they tried to utilize old songs. I guess they dont want to expend the manpower that cold be used in more productive ways, like the next RB

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# B.S.!!RSX 2009-12-02 17:36
Well that is B.S.!!

Thanks for nothing!!!

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# Guest 2009-12-02 17:44
I guess the game has been..

*puts on sunglasses*

unplugged.

Yeaaahhhh

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# Guest 2009-12-02 21:46
lol

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# mehNarooN 2009-12-06 20:17
The only reason I gave RB Unplugged a chance is because it was really similar to Harmonix's older games on PS2: Amplitude and Frequency. It wasn't as cool as those by a long shot, though. In those games, you could control like 8 different tracks, with powerups and whatnot, and even make your own remixes. Also had online multiplayer.


PSP version had no multiplayer of any sort, nor did it have any redeeming game modes. It was pretty much just play the songs. Why would I even play this when I have RB2 on my PS3 with 200+ songs? I got most of the RB1 songs from it's disc, all the RB2 on-disc, the free 20 bonus RB2 songs, with a nice 60 or so DLC tracks.


And to that one dude talkin' about fretting; so what if you can chart stuff? Anyone can chart something, there's just the big difference between a quality, accurate chart and a crappy chart that is so horribly done, it's like you're hitting notes that aren't even there.

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