Wow! I thought the same with them passing on their July 1st announcment coming and going.
These guys really need to reevaluate how they're handling PR. I was super excited for this when it was first announced, but the really low amount of interaction they've had (from what I've personally seen) with their community has slowly stripped that away. I'm still happy that it's hitting but radio-silence after the new Rocksmith announcement has done nothing but hurt their chances of success. I wonder if there were some behind-the-scenes things going down that they just didn't want to talk about.
These guys really need to reevaluate how they're handling PR. I was super excited for this when it was first announced, but the really low amount of interaction they've had (from what I've personally seen) with their community has slowly stripped that away. I'm still happy that it's hitting but radio-silence after the new Rocksmith announcement has done nothing but hurt their chances of success. I wonder if there were some behind-the-scenes things going down that they just didn't want to talk about.
Thats the feeling i got. There was some noise at the start of their project about some of the rights on their song list. Just attributed it all to that. Or that the new Rocksmith announcment cause them to take a step back and adjust to be at least on the same level.
I think that they made an absolutely critical mistake in letting RS2014 hit before their offering does. They still have some differentiation, primarily in learning Tab from what I understand, but they've given themselves a very tough row to hoe to try to convince all of the RS2014 buyers that they need to make another purchase. I'm still not clear what all the delays and near radio-silence were about, but I'm hoping they do well enough to provide a competitor to the Rocksmith guys.
I'm hoping it's licensing issues and not gameplay ones.
Is that the official interface? Because they're using the Rock Band icons on Player 1 & 2 (Guitar & Bass)...
The Bandfuse guys are doing a livestream NOW.
Thanks, dude, watching intently.
The scrolling tab format looks tough to read at speed.
The compression and framerate conversion doesn't do it any favors either though. But I think it'll mostly be about practicing and using it more as visual cues rather than literal reading the full part at speed.
I did consider that - I think the main thing is that it seems to take up such a tiny part of the screen. All that extra space seems wasted.
I appreciated the speed and accessibility of the "lick lab", though the riff repeater is so much better now I'm not sure that advantage is all that useful.
A final thought is it looks like all those endorsed mentors are a total waste - the videos they showed were not remotely close to teaching anything. It was like, "I kinda go -" WAAAAAHHH!! "then I just - " WEREEEEE!!! "and that's how you do a pinch harmonic."
I've gotten surprisingly good at reading the highway in RS2014 even at speed... and there are some fast ones (Cowboys From Hell comes to mind). I bet after an adjustment period reading the BF tab highway at speed would become second nature, too. Though, I did actually teach myself a lot of guitar when I was younger using tab and I never got to the point where I could sight-read it at speed.
I like the guitar track ducking a whole lot. Being able to completely replace the song's guitar track with my guitar is a killer feature. I suspect I'll hold off on a purchase until more DLC becomes available to see what kind of momentum they develop. I realize that's exactly counterproductive for them -- they'll almost certainly have to base DLC amount on sales and if sales aren't high enough they'll have to ditch -- but I can't help their market placement. If they put enough quality songs out there I might have to give it a shot.
Ooooooooooooh, Kenny Wayne Shepherd!! WANT WANT WANT. Not sure if I want it $60 worth, but WANT.
Pretty good setlist. Looks a bit familiar, but that's not necessarily bad.
Welcome to release day!
I still wonder what happened that Seth Chapla jumped from Rocksmith to this clusterf*ck.
I imagine they have great ideas. The usage of tab format as opposed to the arbitrary new RS way is a boon. The artist collaboration is a boon. I just have no clue how they completely diddled so many aspects of the release, though. What a monumental failure in marketing, messaging, and delivery.
LiquidMantis wrote:I still wonder what happened that Seth Chapla jumped from Rocksmith to this clusterf*ck.
I imagine they have great ideas. The usage of tab format as opposed to the arbitrary new RS way is a boon. The artist collaboration is a boon. I just have no clue how they completely diddled so many aspects of the release, though. What a monumental failure in marketing, messaging, and delivery.
Well, Realta seems to be some kind of venture capital type LLC with a core team consisting of middleware and multimedia developers. It's the type of company that you might normally see dropping cheap iPhone games in between contract work. Based on the company profile on the site I suspect they have some connections with other entertainment industries that they felt they could leverage, but little to no marketing experience. I'm also willing to bet they were at one point hoping to sell off the whole thing to a larger entity. Instead they ended up with Mastiff games, which is a budget game dumping ground. Good luck getting marketing support from them.
Still if this was PC i'd snag it today. Since its only for the 360 (xbox one?) I'll wait and see if it's available for the new console and may get it then.
I didn't realize Bandfuse was console only. I guess that shows how much I've been paying attention.
Anyway, like a fly to a dung heap, all this talk of the botched launch inspired me to wander over to the forums on the Bandfuse site. Seems to be off to a pretty inauspicious start. I'll be interested to see if any GWJers report in soon.
Looks like Amazon has stock now after a pretty bad release day for availability. I keep staring at the page... I still have 8 hours to decide to get it tomorrow.
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