Rock Band 3 DLC Upgrade Request Results
So awhile back, I asked people to submit their requests for existing Rock Band DLC that they would like to see updated with Rock Band 3 features. While the poll and submission process was far from scientific, the results were VERY enlightening.
With over 400 “write-in” entries, I did not have the time and/or patience to log every individual song request… especial considering requests ranged from “ALL SONGS” to “DLC packs” to “songs from certain albums” to “songs only by certain artists,” to… well, you get the point. (I’ve included a link to the CSV file so you can see what type of information I was working with from the community.) What I did instead was to record only the artist from each request and then sorted to see who was the most requested artist. Many single requests from people included multiple artists, so I tried to include those as well.
There were just under 100 different artists requested. The most popular being Boston with over 60 different requests for them! Queen and The Who tied for 37 requests each, followed by Dream Theater. Rush came in next at 21, followed by… ahem… ALL OF THEM, with 20 different people making this request. Rounding out artists with more than 10 requests, we have Europe‘s “The Final Countdown” from LEGO Rock Band with 16 requests, and finally Avenged Sevenfold with 12 requests.
What I find interesting is that the TWO most recent acts among the community in this unscientific poll, BOTH have NEW achievements related to them. Could this lend further evidence to the fact that Harmonix may already have plans to upgrade some DLC?
Also, @HMXHenry mentioned earlier today in the PAX panel that, while not promising anything, Harmonix is listening to the community and would consider requests for Rock Band 3 “upgrades.”
I’ve included the full list below, if you care to see it:
This list shows the artist requested, and the number of times they were requested.
| Artist | Requests |
|---|---|
| Boston | 63 |
| Queen | 37 |
| The Who | 37 |
| Dream Theater | 32 |
| Rush | 21 |
| ALL | 20 |
| Europe | 16 |
| Avenged Sevenfold | 12 |
| Alice in Chains | 9 |
| Evanescence | 9 |
| Weezer | 9 |
| Deep Purple | 9 |
| Cars | 8 |
| Muse | 7 |
| Kansas | 7 |
| Simon and Garfunkle | 6 |
| Styx | 6 |
| New Pornographers | 5 |
| Green Day | 4 |
| Pixies | 4 |
| Freezepop | 4 |
| Lady Gaga | 4 |
| Blink 182 | 4 |
| Beatles | 3 |
| Elvis Costello | 3 |
| Megadeth | 3 |
| Iron Maiden | 3 |
| Metallica | 3 |
| Oasis | 3 |
| Guns N Roses | 3 |
| Ozzy Osbourne | 3 |
| Nine Inch Nails | 3 |
| CCR | 2 |
| Locksley | 2 |
| Wolfmother | 2 |
| Zombies | 2 |
| Jonathan Coulton | 2 |
| Elton John | 2 |
| Paul McCartney | 2 |
| REO Speedwagon | 2 |
| Pearl Jam | 2 |
| Journey | 2 |
| No Doubt | 2 |
| Killers | 2 |
| Serj Tankian | 1 |
| David Bowie | 1 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughn | 1 |
| Dead Weather | 1 |
| Radiohead | 1 |
| Kasabian | 1 |
| Slipknot | 1 |
| 3 Doors Down | 1 |
| Cranberries | 1 |
| Alphabeat | 1 |
| Juanes | 1 |
| Linkin Park | 1 |
| Rise Against | 1 |
| Devo | 1 |
| Silversun Pickups | 1 |
| Lucious Jackson | 1 |
| Steely Dan | 1 |
| Disturbed | 1 |
| System of a Down | 1 |
| Blondie | 1 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 1 |
| Ministry | 1 |
| Yngwie Malmsteem | 1 |
| Duran Duran | 1 |
| Queen | 1 |
| Mute Math | 1 |
| Grand Funk Railroad | 1 |
| Earth, Wind & Fire | 1 |
| Greatful Dead | 1 |
| Nickelback | 1 |
| Shaimus | 1 |
| Electric Six | 1 |
| Children of Bodom | 1 |
| Nirvana | 1 |
| Spoon | 1 |
| Blue Oyster Cult | 1 |
| Stephen Colbert | 1 |
| Bost | 1 |
| Coheed and Cambria | 1 |
| All That Remains | 1 |
| The Automatic | 1 |
| Panic at the Disco | 1 |
| Thin Lizzy | 1 |
| Bad Religion | 1 |
| White Stripes | 1 |
| Fleetwood Mac | 1 |
| X Japan | 1 |
| Foo Fighters | 1 |
| Dead Kennedys | 1 |
| Psychedelic Furs | 1 |
| Judas Priest | 1 |
| All-American Rejects | 1 |
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Honestly, I would be happy if they update anything. They don’t have to and it is extra effort for them.
Hey! I know I totally requested Short and Sweet by Spinal Tap be updated.
Or maybe it was only on the official forums…
Either way I am confused why The Who is so high on that list. The songs we have don’t have a ton of keys or harmonies. If it’s just for pro-drums, they’re already in there.
Kirksplosion Reply:
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Pro Guitar or Bass…
RockBandAide Reply:
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:16 pm
You can check the source file I used if your request is in there. That’s why I put it there…
Sumboxcar182 Reply:
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Real good lookin boy has an awesome piano throughout which would be fun to play. And like others have mentioned pro guitar would be fun
edisinsane Reply:
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Dude. Baba O’Riley.
D00k13 Reply:
September 3rd, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Dude. That would be TOO EPIC.
River 0tter Reply:
September 3rd, 2010 at 4:59 pm
But that would give someone something to do for the first half-minute
I hope that there’s some kind of upgrade in effect for the songs on RB2. “Carry On Wayward Son” is just begging for keys!
You’ve got Queen in there twice.
RockBandAide Reply:
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Sorry. You can see the source file. It was a VERY manual task to produce these results. An error or two was bound to be made. I guess Queen goes up to #2 requested w/o a tie.
Looking at that list I forgot Stephen colbert has an awesome keys section, plus still Alive would be fun on keys also
Only 2 for No Doubt? Harmonies would be a blast, and on Pro Guitar many of the songs would be fun, yet still accessible to novice guitar players (except Tragic Kingdom…yikes), not to mention the hits are always a big draw at parties…I can definitely see Don’t Speak as a sort of gateway song for those hesitant to try playing a real guitar.
I am very happy people requested an upgrade for freezepop..i love that band so much and would love to play there songs on the keyboard
“What I find interesting is that the TWO most recent acts among the community in this unscientific poll, BOTH have NEW achievements related to them. Could this lend further evidence to the fact that Harmonix may already have plans to upgrade some DLC?”
I think that’s an odd connection to make, since the Achievements were designed and released prior to the results of this unofficial poll being released.
RockBandAide Reply:
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:00 pm
It means that Harmonix may have done similar focus testing on which DLC should be “upgraded” (and obviously added new achievements to reflect that). The last 250 MSP cannot be on disc (1,000 max per MS), so they’ll have to be in DLC somehow.
At the very least, they should upgrade disc-content, which includes RB1, RB2 and LRB, as well as GDRB.
RockBandAide Reply:
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:13 pm
You want them to do 234 songs? That’s a good amount of songs. Not out of the realm of possibility, but how much would you be willing to pay for this?
Cassie Drake Reply:
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Ah, well, hmm… Good point lol.
Well, I think those would be a good starting point at least. Maybe we’ll scrap the LRB and the GDRB idea, lol.
Also: you just made my life complete by responding to one of my comments. xD
I didn’t vote, but I second whoever voted for X Japan. I.V.+keys+harmonies would be awesome.
River 0tter Reply:
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:43 pm
I’ll be honest. I FC’d that song and forgot I even had it. Huh…
There are a lot of songs that I would definitely upgrade. I do have one concern about the upgrades. Will the upgrades override the old files or will it create a new files? I would hate to have 2 versions of the same song. As the number of songs grow, hard drive space is very valuable. It would be nice, if they would gives us the option to delete songs from the hard drive that we don’t want.
RockBandAide Reply:
September 4th, 2010 at 11:08 am
The probably would “overwrite” the existing ones, but the new files would contain the legacy normal DLC, so in theory, you wouldn’t see any difference than if it was new DLC.
Holy shit. So I’m the only one who thinks Clint Eastwood needs keyboard?
That’s disappointing. Shoulda voted but to know I’m the only one thinking that is still pretty disappointing.
Wtf? The Beatles.. really that wouldn’t make any of the songs really that much harder…
I’m sorry that game is getting too much attention from whiners than it should get.
RockBandAide Reply:
September 4th, 2010 at 11:07 am
It’s not always about making songs harder, it’s about making them more fun to play. Also, ITFB (It’s The F**king Beatles).
I know only two people voted for Zombies, but it was two very intelligent people. She’s Not There in particular has awesome harmonies and a KILLER keys solo!
Wilson (Live) for the Keys.
I might be wrong, but don’t think that Harmonix would add Pro Guitar/Bass to upgraded charts (if they upgraded them, of course). They’ve already said that it takes a really long time to upgrade. If they were to upgrade songs, they wouldn’t want to take very long, but they wouldn’t want to half-@$$ it either.
Whizzer Reply:
September 4th, 2010 at 8:53 am
It’s either all or nothing, if you ask me. Leaving out Pro Guitar/Bass is like a crime for those who shelf out money for the expensive instruments. Harmonix would never disappoint its customers like that.
Where did they say it takes a long time to upgrade? And are you sure that’s due to Pro Guitar/Bass charts? Harmonies are easy, (Pro) Keys may take just as long as Pro Guitar/Bass.
RockBandAide Reply:
September 4th, 2010 at 11:05 am
I get that they would leave it out of RBN 2.0, but I highly doubt they would leave it out of upgraded legacy DLC.
Also, you can hear John say that it takes nearly the same amount of time JUST to other Pro-Guitar as it does to author EVERYTHING else: http://rockbandaide.com/7978/pax-2010-rock-band-panel-video/
Glad to see Rush so high on the list. Definitely want pro guitar for it.
Why is ‘Queen’ the top on AND on the bottom?
RockBandAide Reply:
September 5th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Because it was a VERY manual process to sort the raw data file I received (http://rockbandaide.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/exportDatapollResults.csv). You could also see this: http://rockbandaide.com/7874/rock-band-3-dlc-upgrade-request-results/comment-page-1/#comment-14993
I guess those 20 people didn’t realise how long and expensive it will probably take to upgrade all the songs…
Dream Theater please. I love their songs and as a keyboardist I’ll feel like I’m getting ripped off every time I play their songs on RB3 and there are no keys