Rock Band 3 Will Include Facebook Interaction, Possible Keyboard Update For Older Songs
Harmonix’s Dan Teasdale, Brian Chan, John Drake, and Aaron Trites attended the PAX 2010 Rock Band Panel this week. After revealing Rock Band 3′s intro video, the quartet answered a range of questions regarding their highly anticipated 3rd installment to the Rock Band franchise revealing a bit of new information in the process.
Brian Chan explained how you can use your Facebook or Twitter accounts to expand your Rock Band experience.
“When you make a setlist, that’s something that you can choose to push to Facebook. You’ll need to link your game to the RockBand.com website. From there you can control the syndication to your Facebook feed, or Twitter feed. And you can throttle it, too. I’m sure you don’t want to spam your friends.”
In response to a question regarding possible updates for previous Rock Band songs ( like for instance, Nine Inch Nails’ “The Hand That Feeds” found in the first Rock Band. Did you know that the guitar solo in the game is actually done by a keyboard in the video for the song?), John Drake says it’s a possibility.
“We have the technology to update older songs and DLC for keyboards, pro-guitar, and pro-bass, and maybe harmonies. Two things: 1. Keep in mind, especially any of you familiar with the RBN, there are no keyboard audio streams in those old songs, there’s like actual substantial changes, so if you miss a note with the keyboard, the keyboard goes away, which we think is really important for gameplay. [2.] And it’s a lot of f**king work.”
“For right now, we’re focused on launching Rock Band 3, the first slate of DLC (the first DLC going forward with keyboards, will have keyboards), and then I think we’re going to do some selective updating of the back catalog. We don’t have time on our calendar, we don’t have pricing, and we don’t have information on how it’s going to work yet.”
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