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What's the condition that DLC is in?
XrayZwei \| 10:00 AM on 04.08.2008	6 comments

Last night, and then this morning, downloadable content has been on my mind. The first thing I noticed was on Major Nelson's site:

I'm not so familiar with Rock Band, but I think that if I accidentally downloaded a track more than once I would be pissed. Has anybody had this problem, and were you okay with an 80 point mistake? Do we really live in a world where this can't be fixed?

Rock Band also got me thinking about the amounts of downloadable content. I've been looking forward to PixelJunk Monsters getting a boost for time later this month, Puzzle Quest getting an add-on and spent about an hour playing the new Rocky and Bullwinkle board on Pinball FX:

The picture is from a Date East table I have played in the past, but the new Pinball FX table is a lot of fun. I've gotten to where I expect a great deal of DLC for the games that I play, and have been pretty satisfied. Which ones have too much or not enough? When does something like Rock Band reach the saturation point, or is it more like karaoke? The more the merrier.

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6 comments | showing # 1 to 6

NotAZombie

My friend who owns Rock Band loves the DLC because it's good quality stuff. He's never said anything about downloading something twice so I don't think it's a huge deal.

tazarthayoot

I think that is in reference to the ability to get a songpack or the songs in the pack seperately.

galagabug

the DLC on rockband is epic, but i agree that the ability to download a song 2x (if you buy the bundle, teh single song is still unpurchased) is really unacceptable. i'd imagine them to refund you if you made the mistake, but seriously, thats some lazy coding right there.

tazarthayoot

Keep in mind that may attribute to why they set up the store via the actual game itself, since in the ingame store you can't repurchase a song singular if you purchased it in the pack.

DeusPayne

Even though it's technically possible to purchase the same song twice, with the latest update to Rock Band including the Rock Band store, it now lets you know that you've already purchased a song when browsing through available content. But they'll never block the ability for 2 reasons. 1, don't make economic sense to block the sale of something. 2, for the people that buy the single first, and eventually buy the pack later. Blocking out the purchase of the pack can result in forcing people to pay more than they could have, rather than it just being an option to pay more.

XrayZwei

So was the in-game store an answer to this maybe down the road, so many packs and individual tracks? It may not make economic sense, but if the internet downloaded to many multiples it could be a harsh mistress.

Back to the other part: is there such thing as too many songs?

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