Rock Band fans better watch out, because if the string of complaints are anything to go by, your Rock Band 2 progress could be at risk. The rather brutal glitch, seeming to affect only the 360 version, waits for you to make significant progress through the game before wiping your band leader off tour mode, and reducing the whole group's work to nothing.
Although this sudden destruction of a hot band's career could be used as a rather effective and smug metaphor for the music industry as a whole, the reality of the situation is that this is nasty news for Rock Band 2 players. The Rock Band forums contain the details of the issue, which is outlined below:
A number of Rock Band 2 players are experiencing an error in tour mode where at some point through the game (it seems people most often make substantial progress and are just prior to the airplane award) they start the game and find they cannot access their band. Your character and your band do not show up in the selection screen, but unlocked songs are still available. If you enter quickplay mode your character is deleted. For some reason your band will show up in online mode, but when you access it you get a message stating "looking for band leader" that never resolves and you have to back out. In the game options screen, when you try to load your band, or modify it in any way, you can still see the band but your only option is to delete it. This error seems to becoming more and more common, and its incredibly frustrating because your only option is to create a brand new band and start your tour all over again.
The common threads seem to be the use of an X-box Live Enabled primary account and a non X-box Live Enabled secondary account. To form your band. This makes me believe this will be an X-box 360 error and not anything that would effect the Wii or PS3 versions.
I'll have to get Nick Chester to seek an official response from Harmonix, since none has yet been issued. He certainly hasn't had any complaints so far, although Nick and Rock Band complaints don't go hand-in hand. Have any of you guys had similar problems, or are your bands alive and well?
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11:52 AM on 10.05.2008
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Too soon, Jim.
Too soon. ;.;
Great pic.
Holy hell, that was great Jim.
This thread is not about Megatron.
And I mean I actually laughed out loud. That pic is awesome.
And I believe Harmonix will fix it. They're pretty consumer-centric like that.
Megatron was a man? If I said Transformers then I would understand your point but I am talking about the artist who changed the world, not the one who tried to destroy it.
Also, Jim wins.
This thread is not about Rutger Hauer.
FAIL
I want to have your children, Sterling.
Singing about how you think something SHOULD be changed, and actually changing it, are two different things. In the end, he was another leftist with a guitar who wrote some good songs.
Yeah. Her songs were shit.
Also, I hate you for the header image. But it's an erotic sort of hate.
How many middle-aged benders does it take to write a song about candles being extinguished?
also Sterling you must use this picture at some poin in the future;
http://www.joncellini.com/blog/archives/images/whore_of_the_rings_2.jpg
HE'S ON FIRE!!!
But then again we stored all the characters under the one gamertag (or account, whatever).
I swear, there are a billion more important things in the world that John Lennon. He's one dude. Who wrote some nice songs. And a crazy fan killed him. Sad. But let's move one.
I'm so fucking tired of Beatles' fans shitting themselves as if the Beatles created music itself. For fuck's sake, Jim's pic isn't even offensive.
You know what, I'll say it: Fuck the Beatles. Some of their songs even suck.
And it turns out..it was Harmonix.
Who would have thought?
If my band got deleted, I'd be pissed.
Now I'm kind of glad it came out so early on Xbox. Now they can fix this crap before I get it. Go trail blazers!
The Beatles were pop back then, they hardly defined anything.
I can say with near certainty that, no matter what music you listened to, it was in some way influenced by The Beatles.
Unless its Soulja Boy or something, in which case, I have no words for you.
Singing about how you think something SHOULD be changed, and actually changing it, are two different things. In the end, he was another leftist with a guitar who wrote some good songs. "
THIS. lol.
Some reason people think The Beatles were the only band that existed in the 60s.
I have no need to explain myself when stating a fact.
Fuck You.
Sincerely,
Most people who posted after Jack8274
i hope all of you never hear one beatles song cause you wouldn't see a miracle occur before you if it jammed you in the eye at 500mph.
a bunch of inbred idiot worthless fucks.
I have no need to explain myself when stating a fact.
Anyhow, as far as the header picture, it was a little funny, although I'm a fan of Lennon. But, like I said, I thought it was funny. This wasn't distasteful in anyway, as long as you are a competent person.
As for the topic, I haven't had that problem and I made it past the airplane part...unless my tour bus is now amphibious. Which would be wicked sweet.