This week's Rock Band DLC is borked

by Andrew Yoon { Sep 5th 2008 at 8:22AM }

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!]

Tags: dlc, pax-pack, rock-band

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.

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)....

Stew @ Sep 5th 2008 10:44AM

Yup, froze my PS3

Clint @ Sep 5th 2008 10:47AM

They do usually test these things, but apparently only on the 360...

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.

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.