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  • SchideSchide Yeoh! Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    ...oh damnit fuck you Yahoo Mail for putting my free songs code in the spam folder. What the hell.

    Wait, this means that any Rock band email I may have gotten, I never actually got. Maaaaan.

    Schide on
  • ArikadoArikado Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    The majority of these songs are fun to sing. My sister went back and re-did the solo for "I Wanna Be Your Man" over and over until she got into 95%+ territory. That was one of the surprises on our sightreads.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    WHAT THE FUCK

    THEY SENT ME A FUCKING 360 CODE

    I HAVE A PS3, DIPSHITS.

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  • JC of DIJC of DI I think we're fucked up. I know I am.Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Arikado wrote: »
    The majority of these songs are fun to sing. My sister went back and re-did the solo for "I Wanna Be Your Man" over and over until she got into 95%+ territory. That was one of the surprises on our sightreads.

    Oh man, no kidding. I failed out of it half out of the difficulty and half out sheer surprise.

    Also the song I'm Gone, I'm Going is so simply fun and awesome.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Seriously, Harmonix

    Sometimes they get really hard to defend.

    I registered a PS3 version. What the fuck am I supposed to do with a 360 code, stare at it?

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  • SentienceSentience Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I put a severe crack in my two week old RB2 metal pedal playing BTBAM.

    But the song was done.

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  • ArcasArcas Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    "PlayStation 3 users: select the PLAYSTATION Network option on the XMB (Xross Media Bar). Select the Account Management option, then select Redeem Codes. Enter the code presented above to download your tracks."

    This doesn't work?

    Arcas on
  • SchideSchide Yeoh! Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Fuck man it's later than I thought it was going to be but who wants to jam?

    Schide on
  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Arcas wrote: »
    "PlayStation 3 users: select the PLAYSTATION Network option on the XMB (Xross Media Bar). Select the Account Management option, then select Redeem Codes. Enter the code presented above to download your tracks."

    This doesn't work?

    PlayStation codes come in this format.

    XXXX XXXX XXXX

    I was sent a code like this:

    XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Anyone know if this is all or nothing song wise?

    Also, yeah I was playing through this as one setlist and by the time I got up to 14 or so I quit because I was sick of the constant alt strumming boring songs.

    Prequel was good, Give it to Me, and thats about all that stood out on guitar.

    Are you asking if you can delete them individually? No you cannot.

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Arcas wrote: »
    "PlayStation 3 users: select the PLAYSTATION Network option on the XMB (Xross Media Bar). Select the Account Management option, then select Redeem Codes. Enter the code presented above to download your tracks."

    This doesn't work?

    PlayStation codes come in this format.

    XXXX XXXX XXXX

    I was sent a code like this:

    XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

    You'll have to contact Customer Support about it to get them to send you a new code. Are you sure you selected 'PS3' when you registered the code?

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Arcas wrote: »
    "PlayStation 3 users: select the PLAYSTATION Network option on the XMB (Xross Media Bar). Select the Account Management option, then select Redeem Codes. Enter the code presented above to download your tracks."

    This doesn't work?

    PlayStation codes come in this format.

    XXXX XXXX XXXX

    I was sent a code like this:

    XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

    You'll have to contact Customer Support about it to get them to send you a new code. Are you sure you selected 'PS3' when you registered the code?

    Absolutely positive, I triple-checked all my info because I was afraid of something like this happening.

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Looks like the CS tango for you, then.

    Good luck.

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  • SchideSchide Yeoh! Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Man, I wish all of Prequel Sans the Sequel (boy I'm clever) was like the intro. Ah well, it's still a fun song to play. Though it just like, ends.

    Get it On is also fun, and so is that other song that I forgot the name of already. I only played like...7 or 8 songs in the pack so far though.

    Schide on
  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I can say I'm not looking forward to doing the Infinite '00s challenge. I'm sitting at 93 songs right now. Sure I can save and return, but then I only get money credit for the songs I complete in the session that I finish the challenge. (As in: If I save with 20 songs left and then finish them later, I'll only get money for those last 20 songs. At least that's what has happened before).

    I think I'm just going to do about a third, take a break, a second third, another break, and then the final third. And it'll all be on Hard difficulty unless I can finally manage to beat Visions on Expert. It's like another damned Endless Setlist.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    What is the Infinite 00's playlist, exactly?

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    All songs with a release date from this current decade. In my list there are 93 (and I'm sure some of them were just downloaded today...)

    EDIT:
    I think I've seen some folks complain that they have more than the cutoff amount (I'm guessing 100 max.) and they can't complete it. So I think it's the one challenge with the most songs in it.

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  • JC of DIJC of DI I think we're fucked up. I know I am.Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Infinite (Decade or Genre) playlists in the challenge section take all the songs you've got and use their metadata (Year and Genre) and sort them all into one huge setlist based on those criteria.

    For instance, the Infinite 00's is every song in the game or on your hard drive released on or past January 1st, 2000. My Infinite 00's was maxed out at 100 when I first bought the game, and I've since purchased multiple 00's songs.

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  • RCagentRCagent Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Yes! "Like a Fool" by Shaimus was as awesome as it sounded to play.


    Though, Magnetic Baby's solo has a severe case of "split personality". Seriously, make up your damn mind.

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  • JoahWJoahW Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I played a few of the harder ones on guitar just now. There seem to be a lot of Less Talk More Rokk-esque Ostinatos thrown around, like in Prequel to the Sequel, I Wanna Be Your Man, and Like a Fool.

    It's pretty sweet.

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  • JC of DIJC of DI I think we're fucked up. I know I am.Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    One thing that bugged me - in Burn You, the guitar starts out playing this strange little riff, and then the rest of the music kicks in and you just sit there for a bit.

    I don't mind that so much, but then the part you just played at the beginning starts up again and you just sit there twiddling your thumbs.

    Other than that the song is okay, and that leaves me with enjoying 18 out of the 20 free songs - with a decent amount just outright surprising me with how much fun they were.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Tried going through their support site, which apparently requires an EA account. Try to create one, though apparently one with my e-mail has been made. Don't remember ever doing that, but whatever. Put in all three of the various user names I use for different sites. None worked.

    Ask them to send my screen name to my e-mail. According to ea.com, it's "Successfully Sent!" but my e-mail folders declare otherwise. It's been over an hour now. Tried several times. Don't think it's coming.

    Keep your 20 fucking songs, you bastards. I hope your financial downward spiral continues.

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  • JC of DIJC of DI I think we're fucked up. I know I am.Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Tried going through their support site, which apparently requires an EA account. Try to create one, though apparently one with my e-mail has been made. Don't remember ever doing that, but whatever. Put in all three of the various user names I use for different sites. None worked.

    Ask them to send my screen name to my e-mail. According to ea.com, it's "Successfully Sent!" but my e-mail folders declare otherwise. It's been over an hour now. Tried several times. Don't think it's coming.

    Keep your 20 fucking songs, you bastards. I hope your financial downward spiral continues.

    You've never had to RMA anything?

    You were able to link your Rock Band info to your RockBand.com profile without an EA profile?

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    JC of DI wrote: »
    Tried going through their support site, which apparently requires an EA account. Try to create one, though apparently one with my e-mail has been made. Don't remember ever doing that, but whatever. Put in all three of the various user names I use for different sites. None worked.

    Ask them to send my screen name to my e-mail. According to ea.com, it's "Successfully Sent!" but my e-mail folders declare otherwise. It's been over an hour now. Tried several times. Don't think it's coming.

    Keep your 20 fucking songs, you bastards. I hope your financial downward spiral continues.

    You've never had to RMA anything?

    You were able to link your Rock Band info to your RockBand.com profile without an EA profile?

    No and yes.

    Never RMA'd. Don't need an EA account for RockBand.com.

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  • JC of DIJC of DI I think we're fucked up. I know I am.Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Right, I was mistaken in thinking that an EA account was needed for linking to your game, but it's the Windows ID for Live.

    Also, my EA account's user name when I made one was just set to my e-mail address itself.

    All I'm really getting at here is that you've tried one avenue and have written off the songs and the company. Yeah it sounds like a shitty deal but the rockband.com support forums could maybe be of some assistance, and you haven't even mentioned trying that.

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  • RCagentRCagent Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Apparently people aren't enjoying "Prequel to the Sequel's" cut and began unleashing rage on Harmonix.

    Harmonix gave out a statement that pretty much said that it wasn't their fault and they work with what the record labels give them as Master Tracks.


    I decided to see what the band "Between the Buried and Me" had to think about their song being cut. They had this to say on their Myspace page:
    Rock Band 2 Concerns

    We are aware​ of the song being​ cut short​.​.​.​ its a bumme​r.​ We had no contr​ol over it. I guess​ mains​tream​ compa​nies aren'​t into 8 minut​e songs​.​ We figured​ 5 minut​es is bette​r than nothi​ng.​ Just wante​d all of you to know that it wasn'​t our decis​ion.​

    I don't know, this comment just comes off as obnoxious. They seem to be shifting blame to Harmonix without giving any valid explanations. Granted, it's probably because they have no idea how the entire Guitar Hero/Rock Band master track setup works but still. They lose some respect points for being "lol we are over mainstream media! Now buy our Vinyl CDs! woo".

    The comments on the blog post aren't that inspiring either:

    http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=5137567&blogID=447001089
    There's some valid intelligent fans there and some that make my head hurt.

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  • JC of DIJC of DI I think we're fucked up. I know I am.Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Yeah man, I'd hate to see how underground Rock Band got if we had any songs over 8 minutes in length to play.

    I'd be crying in the corner of my apartment with my Buddy Holly and Pixies albums clutched tight.

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  • RCagentRCagent Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    JC of DI wrote: »
    Yeah man, I'd hate to see how underground Rock Band got if we had any songs over 8 minutes in length to play.

    I'd be crying in the corner of my apartment with my Buddy Holly and Pixies albums clutched tight.

    The Camera Eye is fucking hardcore.

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  • JC of DIJC of DI I think we're fucked up. I know I am.Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Ha, even better is that the Battle of the Bands with three songs over 9 minutes is still up.

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Tried going through their support site, which apparently requires an EA account. Try to create one, though apparently one with my e-mail has been made. Don't remember ever doing that, but whatever. Put in all three of the various user names I use for different sites. None worked.

    Ask them to send my screen name to my e-mail. According to ea.com, it's "Successfully Sent!" but my e-mail folders declare otherwise. It's been over an hour now. Tried several times. Don't think it's coming.

    Keep your 20 fucking songs, you bastards. I hope your financial downward spiral continues.

    Your EA screen name is your email address.

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  • OmeksOmeks Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Man. We're never gonna get anything free again, are we?

    "Here's some free songs guys!"

    "WWWWWWARRRRRGGG!!!!THESESONGSSUCKWHYISTHATONECUTSHORTWHEREAREMYSONGSATFUCKYOUHMXIMBUYINGGUITARHEROGIVETHEMTOMEORDIE!"

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  • ErandusErandus Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I like the contrast between the bitching that the songs are all unknown bands, and then the bitching that we couldn't download them the day they were "promised".

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  • LunkerLunker Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Erandus wrote: »
    I like the contrast between the bitching that the songs are all unknown bands, and then the bitching that we couldn't download them the day they were "promised".

    The official forum posters are downloading them, but they have giant angry frowns on their faces the entire time. :evil:

    I downloaded the song pack last night but didn't have a chance to play them yet. Looking forward to trying on drums.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    JC of DI wrote: »
    Right, I was mistaken in thinking that an EA account was needed for linking to your game, but it's the Windows ID for Live.

    Also, my EA account's user name when I made one was just set to my e-mail address itself.

    All I'm really getting at here is that you've tried one avenue and have written off the songs and the company. Yeah it sounds like a shitty deal but the rockband.com support forums could maybe be of some assistance, and you haven't even mentioned trying that.

    I did, actually. But the support forums are barren, I haven't gotten a response yet and I don't really expect to.

    I suppose I shouldn't be too bummed, the only song I really cared about was Sons and Daughters...by the way, how is that one?

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  • ErandusErandus Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I suppose I shouldn't be too bummed, the only song I really cared about was Sons and Daughters...by the way, how is that one?

    Quite possibly the best song ever committed to the music rhythm format. I cannot stop playing it. It is joy incarnate.
    I honestly don't know, I haven't had a chance to do more than just download the pack. I just couldn't resist fucking with you. <3

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  • SollahSollah Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I can say I'm not looking forward to doing the Infinite '00s challenge. I'm sitting at 93 songs right now. Sure I can save and return, but then I only get money credit for the songs I complete in the session that I finish the challenge. (As in: If I save with 20 songs left and then finish them later, I'll only get money for those last 20 songs. At least that's what has happened before).

    I think I'm just going to do about a third, take a break, a second third, another break, and then the final third. And it'll all be on Hard difficulty unless I can finally manage to beat Visions on Expert. It's like another damned Endless Setlist.

    This is why I hate Visions. I needed cash, so I played 30 songs in a row on that list. I got to Visions and played it for the first time. After much frustration and anger, I dropped down to medium and beat it. It was the second to last song left, so I only got something like $240. :(

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  • ArikadoArikado Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    So why are people actually playing the infinite challenges? Completion's sake?

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  • KorKor Known to detonate from time to time Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    its nice to see X/X completed when you look at your challenges page.

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  • metaghostmetaghost An intriguing odor A delicate touchRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Kor wrote: »
    its nice to see X/X completed when you look at your challenges page.

    I'm really glad I'm not remotely "obsessive".

    Also: I wasn't paying the greatest attention to lyrics as I played last night, but it seemed that one song slipped "shit" through the censor and "sluts" definitely seemed like a hot topic. Very classy.

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  • KorKor Known to detonate from time to time Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    My wife thought she heard "shit" when we were playing damnit last night, I think.

    Also, we don't have the slightest idea about what rules HMX has to respect in regards to DLC.

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