Greetings Rocksmith fans!
We were promised a big announcement, and BOY was that delivered! Legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix is coming to Rocksmith, and we’re not just getting a measly five pack! That’s right, we’re getting TWELVE songs by the guitar great. To top it all off, if you’re a PS4 or Xbox One owner, you can get these tracks for the low, low price of FREE! That’s right, once these songs become available on December 16th, PS4 and Xbox One owners have until January 31st to get these songs for free.
The songs won’t be a timed exclusive to the new consoles, but will only be free there. 360/PS3/PC/Mac players will have to purchase the songs. In order to download the free tracks, you must get them from the in-game store. In addition to the 12 pack, the songs will also be available as 4 3-packs, and singles. How the songs will be divided up remains unknown at this time.
This is definitely a massive get for Rocksmith, especially given the presumed BandFuse exclusivity. My gut says that, given how huge his catalogue is, even though this is a huge pack, there may be more even more coming! Either way, this is a fantastic pack, and is sure to keep us busy for a while (once it’s out, of course)!
Jimi Hendrix Song Pack ($29.99, free for PS4 and Xbox One owners until January 31st, 2015)
- Jimi Hendrix – Freedom
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Bold As Love
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Castles Made of Sand
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Fire
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Foxey Lady
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – If 6 Was 9
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Wing
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Manic Depression
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Red House
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – The Wind Cries Mary
Packs
Jimi Hendrix I – $7.99
- “Purple Haze”
- “The Wind Cries Mary”
- “Manic Depression”
Jimi Hendrix II – $7.99
- “Foxey Lady”
- “Bold As Love”
- “Castles Made Of Sand”
Jimi Hendrix III – $7.99
- “Little Wing”
- “Freedom”
- “Fire”
Jimi Hendrix IV – $7.99
- “If 6 was 9”
- “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”
- “Red House”
its truth that its been some slap recently
and an incomprehensible move too was the holy diver one ( 2 weeks )
No More Money:
I don’t know what you are whining about. PC (aka Steam Users) are offered dlc sales and free code giveaways on the Rocksmith forums. Call an effing whaambulance.
pretty coooooooooool 🙂
OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!
JIMI HENDRIX!!!! TAKE MY MONEY NOW 😈 😈
No need, it’s free. Although I will take your money! 😈
It’s only free to a very small percentage of people with the game…
Free in the next-gen, in steam is Take my money
So if you bought DLC on PS3 it will work on PS4? Just not the other way around? That’s cool, anyway I can afford to spend 30 dollars on Hendrix DLC so couldn’t give a toss about a free incentive or not. Will pick up a PS4 in future, once it is more established, plus the new edition of Rocksmith, knowing my DLC will transfer.
It was this game being released on the PS4 that made me take the plunge into next gen.
I’ve been hoping since the release of the next-gen consoles that RS would upgrade. I want to see an extremely long life for RS and the upgrade is only logical and needed for the future.
I’m using RS on both PS3 and PS4 and I haven’t tried this yet to see if having Music Unlimited on at the same time as RS on PS4 would allow me to play along with the streaming music. I’ve been waiting for a way to do this and I’m going to try tonight. Has anyone else tried this yet?
awww yissss
Wow didn’t think it would happen so quickly since bandfuse had the rights but its so much better than zeppelin or even metallica. Now if they could just release new version next year taking some of bandfuse’s best features.
I actually checked today, all their DLC is gone 🙁
I hope that next year’s Rocksmith will take out the guitar backing track. It made the tones in BandFuse sound so much more crisp.
I hope they don’t since it severely limits the type of music they can license
there won’t be a Rocksmith 2015
https://forums.ubi.com:443/
I would take everything Dan says from now on with a grain of salt. He literally said there would be no incentives for switching over to the new consoles and low and behold, here are the incentives. He lied through his teeth. If he’s done it before, he’ll do it again.
Ubisoft has certainly made AC a year title. Why wouldn’t they want the same for RS? If not yearly, then every 2 years. I expect there to be a new game next fall (RS2016).
If we’re going to throw around personal accusations, read carefully. I’d love it if we can do another Rocksmith game. A lot of folks here would. I just don’t expect a big sequel to appear by next year. See, we did a major game in 2011, then a major game in 2013…I know why people started to assume there’d be a major game in 2015. I’m not stupid; I see a pattern. So I’m managing expectations. Your expectations, from the sound of it, because you have games planned out two years from now already. Plans change in this industry all the time. If we suddenly get a green light and get to do a whole new game, that’d be wonderful. But to help people temper anticipation, I said it’s not in the works right now, other than the usual “what would we do if we had the chance” meetings about functionality and stuff. If those meetings bear fruit, who knows? Should we not do one starting tomorrow because yesterday we didn’t have a plan in place? If you’re more concerned with what was said then than what is happening now, I won’t be joining you. I never said there would be no incentives for switching over, as you suggest. I said there would be no exclusive tracks or content for any of the platforms. Hendrix is coming to all as paid DLC; there is no exclusive content to “force” people to upgrade, which is what people were fear-mongering at the time. However, a limited-time free offer of universal content is a clear incentive for people who are interested in moving to a new platform to make that leap. If you are not one of them, you are not missing anything at all. Literally. Like I said: If we’re going to… Read more »
It’s been a long wait people, and this free dlc is sweet! Hit me up with a friend request on the ps4 (while I wait for my digital copy and all my PS3 dlc to instal).
Psn name: The_lexx
😛
I have a PS4, but all my DLC is on my xbox 360 so I’m not upgrading my copy of RS. But I don’t give a damn that i have to pay for it, I’m just stoked that something I love as much as Hendrix is coming with 12 tracks!!!! That is bloody amazing and I am VERY happy about this!
HENDRIIIIIIIIIIX!!!!
How is anyone upset about this? If you don’t have the ps4/xboxone version of rocksmith then you can buy these songs just like any other dlc release. If you purchased the ps4/xboxone version then you are getting a reward for buying the game a second time. Just picked up my Xbox one version. Can’t wait to play some Hendrix
coz they say “fuck you”! why wouldn’t we be upset? they say, “all you’ve people who’ve spent lots of money, FUCK YOU”
So you get rewarded for spending money on a new console and spending $60 on a game, but if you already bought the game for $60+ (with/without cable) and have spent literally hundreds of dollars on DLC, you get nothing?
I don’t understand how people don’t think this is a huge dick move.
Point is, I’m excited and I’ll buy it. But I’m not happy about how they are treating the existing fan base.
I agree that people should be upset about not getting the free DLC. The PS4 and Xbox1 users haven’t been supporting the company or keeping it afloat while its competition died (bandfuse). It should be for all, not for just the hold outs.
This whole thread reeks of entitlement issues. You guys must be masters of the waaah pedal. 😉
#FirstWorldProblems
It’s not entitlement if we have contributed to supporting the company. Entitlement would be the next gen owners that feel they deserve the free DLC while others do not.
You get 12 hendrix songs for $30 . Nuff said greatest game ever. For $30 I can go can see a crappie movie, stale popcorn and watered down soda. Get a clue
I’ve got a clue, so do some others on this forum.
They said they wouldn’t have incentives or console exclusives…they do.
They’re giving away a $30 pack to either a) people who are paying for the game again to switch consoles (that’s a nice move, which is great) and to b) the people out there new to the game, who have only supported it by buying the disc and/or cable.
But what about all the people who have been shelling out cash for years to help pay your salaries and keep new music coming? What about all the people who are always talking the game up and trying to get new people interested? We get kicked in sack and told to buy the pack full price.
I don’t view this as entitlement, but perhaps there’s a fair point there. However, after we collectively have been buying into this game for so long (I for one bought Rocksmith day 1, pre-ordered Rocksmith 2014 at the first available moment, and have spent more money on DLC than I care to think about for the fear or inducing a coronary) it just feels like we deserve better. Maybe a deal for all owners? …something.
Clearly some of you don’t care. Fine, that’s up to you. What I and many others are afraid of is “what next?”
They win. I’m going to shell out $30 for Hendrix even though I don’t want them to be rewarded for this ploy. But maybe, just maybe, someone will realize going forward that without fans and supporters, do you know what you turn into? …Bandfuse.
you know the answer already , ppl don’t wanna see.
$$$ since it worked why stop, they ll get money on old console cause its jimi. since its free on new console the game is double price so anyway you choose you have to repay again. money rules the world you like it or not in every domain in life. when someone spend 100 000$ they want 1 000 000 , they dont care if 35 % or more are not happy they still do their money .
I feel sad now
Agreed. Bunch of Whiney crybabies in this town. Constantly moaning that there is no Hendrix on rocksmith and then when their wish is fulfilled they moan that it’s not free.
” Wah! Wah! My diamond shoes are too tight and no one has change for my hundred dollar bill! Wah ! Wah!”
Do you think Jimmy Hendrix sat around moping because no one would give him free muddy waters sheet music?
it just that i’m older now and those magician tricks ( look left , while my right hand is doing the trick..) is getting more and more evident
and the worse that could happen ( if this really happen ) the put a package of next gen console with rocksmith 2014 with a 60$ to 100$ discount, that would probably be the final blow
i dont crack my console cause i have respect , but im starting to think of it
That right there is a massive leap. Plenty of folks ONLY keeping their PS3/360 around as a RS console until the new RS version.
Also, offering a small incentive to urge players to make the change (assuming they have a new console, of course) is a smart business move.
UbiSoft doesn’t owe you anything for supporting the game. Instead, they offer WEEKLY, reasonably-priced DLC.
I agree. And I ‘Was’ a 360 just waiting to put it away for the Nextgen support. 1 Less power supply sucking power.
Hendrix? Free is ok, but he was not my style and normally wouldn’t have bought it. It’ll just be longer to zoom through my playlist selections if I snagged 12 for free. Enumeration would drive me crazy. But maybe Rocksmith will eventually let us have CLUTTER CONTROL and file in seperate tracks in Album or Track Favorite Folders.
I really like the idea of a Favorites or Playlist menu. I find myself hoping not to land too long on a song I cannot stand, land on it too long, cringe, and proceed to scroll along until I find what I feel like (or my wife requests) me to play.
Could we at least put the photo of Jimi the correct way?
This is great news for Rocksmith players. I’m an X-Box 360 user, no plan to upgrade to the ONE, but will gladly throw down my hard earned on this DLC.
What do you mean? He was a lefty, and played right-handed guitars upside-down. That’s what I see. Something doesn’t look quite right about the labeling though.
Wait a sec, that’s an inverted picture. Sorry.
Fixed that 😆
Yay – it was apparently confusing me. Not to hard to do at midday.
I became curious and checked whether any of Jimi’s Bandfuse songs were left in the Xbox Marketplace. It turns out everything is gone except for the in-house DLC. Ah well, 12 SONGS, WOOOO!
I would haved loved seeing Hey Joe and All Along the Watchtower… Maybe at a later date… WOOOO tho
probably hard to license as they are covers I’m guessing.
True. HMX did it though
When are we getting the rest of the Bandfuse library? 🙄
I’m stunned that they reeled Hendrix in, and I look forward to what other big artists are waiting in the wings, but this just reminds me of the original article revealing the current-gen versions and how Dan Amrich spent his time responding to us. So much for his borderline harassing us for complaining about the lack of incentive to upgrade.
What a joke. Call me when they bother to put out a disc-only version for those of us who already supported the hell out of this game, or you find a cheap used copy, because that’s the only way I’ll bite on PS4. Digital only at full price is a slap in the face.
Wait, what exactly are you mad about?
Elliot, Ive tried to decode it. I think the matter is the “no discount for previous owners” thinghy
I don’t want a discount, at all, so good try on that decoding thing. If there was a disc-only retail version, I’d have already bought it.
Thanks for letting me know, that I did good, I’m conficted, however, cause you say I did good, but also that I was wrong.
So you¨re bitching about not being able to buy the new version on disc, without the cable? How about a digital version, what’s the problem with that?
I’m not mad, though it does likely come across as such; I just find it really disconcerting and rather contradictory that Dan Amrich loudly called everyone out and degraded them when they asked about incentives for upgrading (all of this was in your article about the reveal of RS2014 for current-gen systems) and effectively saying that “buy it if you want to own it on current-gen, but there will be no incentives provided.”
While some people were upset that there wasn’t an incentive (admittedly I was one of them, though I wasn’t going to completely abandon the game), I’m more bothered by the fact that he behaved the way he did all the while knowing this entire Jimi Hendrix incentive existed– this kind of thing doesn’t get decided at the last second.
It’s not entitlement or anger or anything irrational like that– I just don’t like the way this has unfolded after his original comments in the previously referenced article.
That, coupled with the fact that there’s no disc-only retail version, is just disappointing enough to turn me off from the whole PS4 edition. I don’t buy digital games unless it’s the only option, and I’m not ponying up for Rocksmith 2014 for a third time to get another cable after I already own two of them. This last part? Not Ubisoft’s fault, I completely understand that– but they could have provided the option to buy a disc-only retail version, because I guarantee I’m not the only person who shies away from digital-only. As someone who must be in the 99th percentile of Rocksmith supporters, I basically feel as if what matters most to me is being neglected.
Oh, and it seems that only singles purchases transfer over to next-gen right now, and not pack purchases, which is another slap in the face if true (it’s listed as such on the PlayStation Blog and PSN, so hopefully this is in error). That, I would definitely be mad about.
The DLC has to be added and packs haven’t rolled in yet (Just import and bachsmith) so be patient in adding non-single releases.
For me, on PSN, the packs were not free, but this singles inside of the packs that I bought, was
Are people seriously asking why these are free for the new consoles??? Are you people completely unaware of how business works? It is certainly in Ubi’s best interests if the XB1 and PS4 releases do well. In order to spur people that already own the old console versions to upgrade, they are offering what is basically a $20 “perk”. If you don’t understand this, you are seriously daft.
It’s not that we don’t understand, but it is HEARTLESS to just throw free DLC at new gamers on next gen and people that can afford to upgrade consoles and then turn around and tell your loyal supporters to screw off.
They wouldn’t even have a product that is succeeding or making it to next gen if it weren’t for those of us pouring hundreds of dollars into the DLC to support them.
If you don’t see this as a slap in the face, I think you are daft. That’s my opinion though.
Ubisoft is taking a loss on the Next Gen so that way they can build an install base….aka they had to pay for this shit and now you want it for free but they got no reason to give you something that cost them an arm and a leg, be glad they took the risk so that you might pay them money so they could recover what was spent.
Who said it has to be free? Any discount, even for like one week, would be great. And it wouldn’t feel like a slap in the face.
They took a risk by making this free to next gen owners and not their existing support group. THAT was the risk.
:O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O
I wanna get a guitar now. Jimi did have a nice bassist accompany him often but, so much Hendrix begs for guitar.
I do wish we could have gotten All Along The Watchtower and Third Stone from the Sun, but wow 12-pack!
Nice
EPIC! While a free incentive to buy the game on an Xbone or PS4 would be nice, I’ll stick with the PC. Definitely excited about these.
All along the Watchtower 😥 😥 😥 😥 😥 😥 😥 😥 😥 😥 😥 😥
Hey Joe……….. 😥
We’re getting a 12-pack and you’re STILL complaining about songs that aren’t in it??
Hate to agree, but Hey Joe is my favorite Hendrix song so I would have loved to see it too. Better than anything else though, I would have loved to see Rocksmith extend the deal to its loyal customers that already existed and not just the next ten hold outs.
Not being funny but Xbox 360/Ps3/PC were before Xb1 and Ps4 we spent a longer time on it and we are the ones that have to pay for it? bunch of BS
I agree…I’ve spent so much money on DLC and have no interest in upgrading to an Xbox One/PS4.
Why do the people who’ve spent countless dollars on DLC get the shaft just because it’s available on a new system?
I’m still going to buy it, for two reasons. One, I love Hendrix. Two, I will support this game as long as feasible.
I just wish that having spent hundreds of dollars to support them would maybe get me this pack free too…instead of spending hundreds of dollars on a new console that they don’t see any profit from. Sigh.
Though I’m happy for the new DLC, as a PC user I can’t help but feel a like I’m getting a big FU
No it’s more like “It sucks to suck!” LOL ;P
I wish they could have secured the rights to the Experience’s covers of All Along The Watchtower and Hey Joe. Bob Dylan seems Rocksmith-friendly, though, so perhaps there’s a chance on the former, maybe?
😈 Yes!!! Thanks for the early Christmas Present Ubisoft!!
Hooray! 😀