One of the games on my list is Rock Band 2. I've had that game since it came out and when I put it on my list, I assumed I had all the time in the world to play it, and even to go in the Rock Band Store and download some of those DLC songs that I'd been so looking forward to playing and jamming.
A couple weeks ago, I had a bit of a scare. I randomly tried to go in the Rock Band store to see if I could get Manfred Mahn's Blinded by the Light only to find out that I could not log onto the store. Like at all. I was suddenly struck by the horrific thought that Harmonix had shut down the Rock Band Store and no amount of customer service could answer the question of whether anyone would still take my money to download songs for Rock Band. Nobody knew. Everyone said it was such an old game, nothing on it was being supported.
Finally it occurred to me that maybe if I upgraded to Rock Band 3, the store would still be available to those users and I could get some songs. After a few eBay scares, and not being able to score a copy of RB3 at a decent price, I got a reply from Harmonix's website. They said the stores were indeed still up and running but they had had some server instability when I tried to log on. (I can now log on but it's still a little shaky).
I've now had time to pinpoint the songs I want and I've decided to put down a hundred bucks for what I want, with a little wiggle room for experimentation and recommendations. This was always money I was going to spend, I'll just get it out of the way now, and if I ever updrage to Rock Band 3 I know there is a way to import my whole music library to play on the latest interface... but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
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