The
Rock Band forums are being torched down by angry PS3 owners that downloaded this week's PAX Pack DLC. According to every single post on the forums, the $3 pack simply doesn't work. "I just downloaded the PAX pack on my PS3 and I can't play the songs," one user notes. "They all show up in my setlists in the game, but everytime I select one of them to play it goes to the loading screen and gets 'stuck.'"
Harmonix hasn't issued a comment yet about the cause of this problem, and an approximate ETA for a fix. We're surprised that such a damaged download pack could go live -- don't they usually
test these things?
[Thanks,
Ry-Tron!]
{ Sep 5th 2008 at 8:22AM } 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
warlock7 @ Sep 5th 2008 8:26AM
Well, that's ok, since the tracks simply suck to begin with.
vegetafr20 @ Sep 5th 2008 8:41AM
Harmonix
koehler83 @ Sep 5th 2008 8:47AM
Ah Harmonix sure have their heads around the PS3 don't they.
Some devs just have X branded on their skinny white asses.
Stew @ Sep 5th 2008 10:44AM
Yup, froze my PS3
phr3qu3ncy441 @ Sep 5th 2008 8:59AM
it was probably enough for them to test it locally... to test every song by having some ps3 and x360 download them and then to play them would be too involving.
especially when it's been going on for a long time and it's probably the same proven implementation they use for dlc, why test it every time?
phr3qu3ncy441 @ Sep 5th 2008 9:01AM
if anything, maybe they just do local automated testing.
Christian @ Sep 5th 2008 9:16AM
Well they are still not as bad as Fireaxis and the complete lack of QA on Civilization Revolution.
acidwolvers @ Sep 5th 2008 9:21AM
Well, just remember that even though Harmonix has its name on it, it also has the name [shudder] EA on it. As we all know, EA neeever screws things up.
PSN: Puselva @ Sep 5th 2008 2:56PM
Isn't EA only involved on the hardware side of things? However, talk about some screw-ups there (at least with the initial batches)....
Eric E @ Sep 5th 2008 12:26PM
didn't they have someone else planned but scrapped it last minute b/c of an issue. Maybe they didn't have time this time.
34498e1c @ Sep 5th 2008 3:48PM
They had a Rush album planned, but this pack worked fine on the 360, so they had plenty of time, they just didn't test our package.
Clint @ Sep 5th 2008 10:47AM
They do usually test these things, but apparently only on the 360...
VeganTnT @ Sep 5th 2008 1:18PM
Actually the problem is the MC Frontalot song.
It seems other users who downloaded all three songs seperately confirm that the other two songs work just fine.
If you downloaded the PAX bundle like I did then the whole thing is broken but still most likely due to that one song.
Joe Pollicino @ Sep 5th 2008 2:03PM
OMG Thats MC Front alot!!!!!
hes so good!
BackALittle @ Sep 5th 2008 7:14PM
Isn't he the rapper who was described by Spin magazine as the thinnest and most egalitarian of the Nerdcore crop?