Rock Band 4’s weekly DLC drops are coming to an finish. Harmonix mentioned Wednesday the upcoming batch of recent songs on January 25 would be the sport’s final. Though all different stay providers will stay energetic, the developer plans to provide full consideration to the Rock Band-like Fortnite Pageant, a rhythm sport inside Epic’s digital world.
Product supervisor Daniel Sussman waxed nostalgic about Rock Band 4’s spectacular eight-year run of recent tune drops every week. “Taking a longer look back, I see the Rock Band DLC catalog as a huge achievement in persistence and commitment — over the years we’ve cleared, authored and released nearly 3,000 songs as DLC and well over 3,000 if you include all the game soundtracks,” he wrote in an announcement weblog put up. “That’s wild.”
Sussman says Harmonix is dedicated to defending its licensing, promising that bought content material will stay accessible. He provides that every one the sport’s different stay providers, together with Rivals and on-line play, will proceed as typical. There simply received’t be any extra new music for the rhythm sport, which arrived in 2015 with 65 tracks.
Fortnite Pageant, launched in December, is a rock god stage within the fashionable battle royale title. It has the benefit of being free: You don’t need to pay a few bucks to meet your desires of jamming out to “Seven Nation Army,” The Cranberries’ “Zombie” or Bel Biv Devoe’s “Poison.”
Rock Band 4 instrument help is on its approach to Epic’s digital stage. “If you are a fan of the rhythm game category, Fortnite Festival is the place to be; and with support for RB4 instruments coming, this is not the time to hang up your guitars just yet…”
Harmonix is tight-lipped about its last tracks, but it surely guarantees thematic relevance. “We deliberated long and hard about how to frame the last blast of RB DLC of this era,” Sussman defined. “The last two weeks will feature some tear jerkers that sum up our feelings about this moment. We thank you for your commitment to and passion for this wonderful game.”