Harmonix launches crowdfunding campaign to hire a company to port Rock Band 4 to PC
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Hah, Fig, right, the shell company for the shell company that can't even legally take your investments. Good luck with that
From their video:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/jKEjkAO.png[/t]
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;49845695]We'll see, paid user content is great for content creators, if it was more transparent yet still sanitized it could be great, think of the App Store[/QUOTE]
And Steam/Valve didn't take a huge cut from it as well.
put it on kickstarter, then ill pledge.
$1,500,000 goal
And the return of paid mods?
Kiss the bottom of my shoes, thanks.
[QUOTE=Doritos-pope;49844662]Paid mods 2.0? :why:[/QUOTE]
I can see that, for potential Licensing fees / royalties to the song artist.
[QUOTE=Doritos-pope;49844662]"Then, using Steam Workshop, you can submit those files to us—we'll do a quick check to make sure they play properly and include music you own, and then put them into the game via the Rock Band 4 in-game store. [U]Steam Workshop makes sure you get your cut of the revenues when they sell.[/U]"
Paid mods 2.0? :why:[/QUOTE]
people have been paid for their workshop content since it was started
see: tf2
Y'know, the big argument against Rock Band for the PC was that the music labels wouldn't be happy with people being able to easily rip the audio stems. Which is why Rocksmith gets away with it, since they're just selling the regular-ass songs in their store. I wonder what changed.
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Paid mods strike back :v:?[/QUOTE]
To be fair this idea isn't bad. It works exactly the same as rock band 1-3 for the end user and now literally anyone who makes music can get on this platform and make money, or just please fans with freebies if they choose
I know people could get songs into the game on the consoles before but not every recording musician owns one, but nearly every one owns a computer
Another dumb thing, I hope you don't have the Xbox One controllers because they won't work with Rock Band 4 PC.
[QUOTE=Swiket;49844824]Alex Navarro (former Harmonix employee, now works at Giant Bomb) is being pretty earnest on Twitter about how it looks desperate that they're asking for $1.5 mil for a PC port of [B]a game that is really stripped down compared to its predecessors[/B], and that "it's almost like someone came in and began systematically dismantling everything that made them likable."[/QUOTE]
Even this is a huge understatement. Rock Band 4 was a total disappointment. Like, all they really had to do was give us the same game again with some refinements and a couple big new features, and they failed at that. It's the same game again, but in its most basic form with a huge amount of missing features. You can play the rhythm game portion and there's a barebones campaign mode, but it's missing decent character creation (I can't believe they managed to fuck up character creation even more than RB3), challenges, [B][I][U]online play[/U][/I][/B], all the RBN songs, the entire keyboard instrument, and more.
RB3 was already mildly disappointing in the features it took away from RB2, but at least it still had all the most popular features plus an entire new instrument and a great soundtrack addition. RB4 has...pretty much just nostalgia for the old RBs, which chances are you still have on-hand if you still had your old instruments ready for RB4. The last time I booted up RB4, I went "shit, all the songs I want to play aren't in here", shut my Xbone off, booted up my 360, and popped up RB3.
If you want Rock Band (or Guitar Hero) on the PC, you should just grab Frets on Fire and install the FOFIX mod (assuming that both are still around and/or there's nothing better - it's been [B]years[/B] since I played either).
Has full support for Rock Band (at least up to 3) drums and guitar controllers, and I believe Guitar Hero controllers as well. And all else fails, you can play with your keyboard. Like a fucking [B]badass[/B].
And there are literal [B]thousands[/B] of custom songs for Frets on Fire. Entire band discographies, with music ranging from [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u_-hyPFD5Y]The Outlaws[/url] to [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1kEZ0_BrHE]Necrophagist[/url]. It's amazing.
There's phaseshift too, but I don't know much about it.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDyNCbiOXPk[/media]
Looks good to me, not sure what kind of support it has.
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