The Rock Band DLC ends after 8 years and 3,000 songs
The last songs for Rock band 4 will be released next week, ending an eight-year streak of weekly DLC releases for the rhythm game developer Harmonix announced this on Wednesday. The studio’s future work will come to Fortnite Festival, the Rock Band-style game mode for Fortnite which launched in December.
Rock band 4The game’s final DLC will be released on January 25, although Harmonix has not announced which songs will close out the game’s nearly 3,000-song run after launch. “We thought long and hard about how we would portray the final explosion of RB DLC of this era,” the developer said in an announcement on the Harmonix website. “The last two weeks will include some tearjerkers that sum up our feelings about this moment.”
Harmonix says all other live services for Rock band 4 “will continue as normal, including Rivals seasons and (and) online play.” The studio also promised to ensure players keep the songs they have purchased, adding: “To be clear, you can keep the songs you own within Rock band 4 as long as you want.”
For Rock Band fans looking for new content, “Fortnite Festival is the place to be,” according to Harmonix. Developer Epic Games released Fortnite Festival last month with two modes: Main Stage, a simplified Rock Band-style experience for up to four players; and Jam Stage, inspired by Harmonix’s song mashup game Fuser.
Fortnite Festival is free to play and has its own additional music, with a rotating selection of free songs. Harmonix is committed to providing support for Rock band 4 instruments to Fortnite Festival, which currently supports gamepad and keyboard controls, sometime this year.
Rock band 4 launched with 65 songs. Harmonix brought that number with the release of the Rock band rivals expansion in 2016. Harmonix has since released new songs for Rock band 4 on a weekly cadence. In recent weeks, the developer has released DLC via the Rock Band Music Store, including Beastie Boys’ ‘So What’Cha Want’, Queens of the Stone Age’s ‘No One Knows’ and Elton John’s ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’.