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“Killed to make room for Google+, which didn't outlive it by much either”
“It let every band play their own set, from their own living room.”
Rock Band Network was Harmonix's (with Microsoft's help) downloadable content service that let artists and record labels turn their own songs into playable Rock Band tracks, starting with Rock Band 2. The idea was simple and generous: more music than Harmonix could ever chart themselves, across every genre imaginable. After a closed beta in July 2009, its store opened to Xbox 360 players on March 4, 2010 across nine
Built on the XNA Creators Club model, RBN leaned on peer review to vet songs for playability, copyright, and profanity, backed by a suite of Harmonix tools including a modified version of REAPER. The Network was discontinued on January 18, 2011. What it left behind was a brief, shining window when any artist could hand fans a controller and say: this one's yours.
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“Killed to make room for Google+, which didn't outlive it by much either”
“It turned the whole web into a tidy spreadsheet — order out of chaos, gone too soon”
“The first phone we stroked instead of pressed — it never stood a chance of being the last.”