So, I recently tried to do one of the Battle of the Bands in Rock Band 2. A lot of them require certain downloaded songs, which is fine, but some also require songs from Rock Band 1. A big promo thing with Rock Band 2 seemed to be the ability to export your songs from RB1 onto your XBox hard drive and then play them on RB2, right? Well, what they didn't advertise was the fact that if you want to do this, you have to purchase the export rights for your Rock Band 1 songs from the Xbox Live Marketplace. You already own Rock Band 1, but in order to put MOST (not even all) the songs onto your Xbox so that they are playable with Rock Band 2, you have to pay 400 Microsoft Points! That's about $6.00, which is not crazy expensive, but considering you already bought both RB1 and RB2, it just seems somewhat ridiculous for them then to ask for more money! If you need the songs from RB1 to play RB2 to it's full potential, they should have been included on the RB2 Disk, or the exporting should not have a fee! I understand that it's probably some licencing thing that requires you to purchase the exporting rights, but it should either be included in the price of the game, paid for by the company, or the songs from Rock Band 1 should not be required to do anything in Rock Band 2. I'm kinda pissed about it. I needed the Garbage song from RB1 to do a Battle of the Bands, but in order to get it, I would have needed to fork out 400 Microsoft Points, which I decided was too much!
Let me know if you agree/ disagree and if anyone actually paid the $6.00 to play the game you already owned. I admit that I almost did, lol but then was too angry.
5 comments:
Absolutely! It is worth every penny of that $5 to get all but 3 songs from RB1 in RB2 - compare it to the price of normal DLC in RB and it's a steal! :)
So even though you already actually own Rock Band 1, and paid the $60 or whatever for it originally, it doesn't bother you in the least that they'd ask for more money??
Good to know that you do think its worth it though =) thanx for commenting!
It bothers me a little bit that the music world is so litigious that you have to pay through the nose to license songs, but that's not Harmonix's fault :)
The $5 is worth the extra songs available in RB2, even though I paid for RB1 previously - although it's worth noting that you can pay the $5, sell RB1, and the songs keep working ;)
I also like that you can delete individual songs that you exported, so I deleted GG&HT so that evil song would never show up in a playlist in RB2 :)
You make some good points, I think I might have to do get it now... lol.
You deleted GG&HT!? That's one of my RB1 favorites! lol
I like the song itself, but I can't beat it on Expert Bass or even Hard Guitar, which are the lowest I ever play, so whenever it comes up in random it becomes an instant failure :)
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