In completely unsurprising news @NaoHigo producer of Rocksmith posted on Rocksmith’s Facebook page that the PC version is most definitely being delayed, as for how long “The current plan is to have the PC version ready in May.” This is especially bad news for Xbox owners outside of North America as the PC version (which was expected to be released December 13th, 2011) was there last hope of playing the game on their console before the non-existen Europe release date.
As you can see, development seems to be very much geared towards DLC and patching many of the complaints being voiced about the current incarnation of Rocksmith.
How do you feel about this decision? Should they be focusing on pleasing the non-console owners or is supporting their install base with new content and solutions to their problems a more prudent issue. Let us know in the comments below and be sure to come back tommorow for December 13th’s DLC announcement which may have that heavy music you kids want.
You babies Happy Now? Patience is virtue.
Oh No. Its worse than I thought…
The real reason they are delayed. I hate this countries stupid patent system that is completely broken by greed…
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/168225/Ubisoft…
Trust me you don't have to worry about that one..
The PC version has a solid release date of October 16th:
http://theherofeed.com/4264/rocksmith-announces-b…
I have already attempted to teach myself how to play the guitar and haven't had much luck. I've tried the tabs and videos on youtube. I don't want this game to make me a -great- guitarist. I want it to help teach me how to play. Great depends upon natural talent and the amount of time I'm willing to put into practice.
It's a -teaching- game. I am interested in the teaching aspect, not the game. I don't play games. Care to come and check out what is on my computer to verify that you don't know WTF you are talking about in all cases?
Its May 2012…………..?
Should be out sometime in the fall we are hoping.
Yes. Seriously. And again, yes you can buy the cable separately.
"so unless you are a developer don’t act like you know what you are talking about when it comes to development…"
I am a developer and do know what I am talking about…. The game has already been made for xbox 360; which is amazingly easy (comparatively) to port back to PC given that its XNA.
So don't pose as a developer when you are obviously not (by your own statements).
AND the pc version has now been delayed until October…. ugghhh.
I still play the xbox360 version and love it. But agree very much with everybody's frustration as I would be more than happy to pay for the PC version as well!
Quit Complaining People!!!!!!!!
What is this world coming to. All people do is complain. None of you people are serious about playing a guitar else you would be playing.
The marketing people at this company are totally out to lunch. They are comparing their product to games that use Toy guitars with coloured buttons and thinking the consoles are where it is at. Meanwhile there are no guitarists out there using their PS3/XBox for digital recording, etc. Most guitarists were interacting on their PC or MAC before knowing about this game.
I've been playing guitar for years and feel out of practice. I thought this would be a great tool for playing at home after work. Multiple PC release delays and focusing on the console market? And did you not do a name search? Now you are going to have to give some money to a really crappy band in the UK that doesn't deserve any attention. All because you didn't use google… Get your *%@^ together!…
Don't get me wrong i like rocksmith on my xbox 360 but there are many errors that i would like to address first is the lag on the playback it sounds like you missed every note of the song if you play it good when you listen to it it sounds awful. Second theres no owners manual so if you don't know what is what you don't know what to do. Third is the amp mode which i still haven't figured out. I am an experienced guitarist of 26 years and can do what it requires in the playing catagory but have had the game three months and don't even know how to pick or use a pedal and i am ranked as a national headliner WTF?
I preordered this game in 2011 then they rescheduled it for Christmas then again reschedule. I canceled my preorder with Amazon.
I fever this comes out I might still purchse this game, I probably will not be buying an Xbox or PS3 to play one game ( I already have a Wii, PS2 and various older systems)..
For those people that want to learn to play a guitar and have already purchased a guitar, Buy an electronic tuner ( they are cheap ) and take that $85 and take a few lessons, at least enough to get you started with set up and tuning.
Learn E A D G C chords
maybe find a book about guitar Tab or a web site http://guitar.about.com/od/tabchordslyrics/ss/rea…
then practice one hour a day and in a months time you to can play guitar..
They didn't say they were focusing on making new download content. They said they're focusing on issues WITH the download content. They need to update the game. If it had been released for the pc, that version would have just as many issues. They're taking care of bugs and whatnot for ALL versions, so when the PC version is released, all the milkdrinkers who think they're too good for a console don't complain so much when they actually do get to play it. If it's such a big deal, why don't you just try learning to play the old fashioned way?
Milkdrinkers = 35+ year-old's that don't live with their parents and smoke dope.
You = idiot
Fact.
This game was purchased as a PC game and was ported to consoles. The disappointment is understandable. Your indignation is not. I for one am learning the old-fashioned way, but would still like to play this game on a PC for less than $85.
I found out about Rocksmith about the same time I was looking for an amplifier. Instead of the amp, I bought a Line 6 Pocket Pod. It cost $130.00, and 20 bucks for a power transformer, as the batteries tend to die quickly. I found a working transformer (must buy one with the same specifications) for 3 bucks at a science store near me, brand new. You can plug headphones into it, or connect it with a line to the PC, as I've done. No, it's not a game, it's just a portable headphone amplifier. It has a very nice sample of effects for just about any sound I want.
OK, before this sounds like I'm working for Line 6 (too late, I think), I'm not. I'm just throwing this on the plate, as something you can play guitar through the PC. Add mixing software and you've got a makeshift recording studio. I still wanted to buy Rocksmith back then, and I'm still waiting. I agree with one of the other posts. I don't think it will ever come out for us. It's a pity. I don't play games, and I'm not buying a console just for this. This would be the only "game" I'd buy, and they dropped the ball.
Someone mentioned that they want to see sales before developing for the PC. Really? What does that mean, I have to pre-order it along with everyone else to give them the incentive? Fixing bugs is one thing, but working on the DLC is complete BS. Most of the code should translate rather easily between platforms, then it's just down to hardware specifics. Seems to me they played this out all backwards.
You totally missed the point here, we are talking about a game for learning guitar and you talk about an amplifier simulator made for playing guitar but will be no help at all at learning to play.
Adding that for roughly the same amount of money you can also take a DI box for impedance adaptation between your guitar and your PC and a software like WavesGTR, Overloud TH2, etc … to have far better tones, and with far more customization possibilities, than those Line6 things are able to do.(i've tried some of these and never been convinced by these very synthetic sounds)
You can find a DI box for +-30$ or easily build one for less than 10$ (what i did), Waves GTR cost about 100$, TH2 a little bit more (or go lot cheaper with Amplitude Free plus just some custom shop gears to satisfy your needs)
If you prefer you can also take a real amplifier, i got my little Bugera V5 for less than 150$ and it sound far better than any Pod-like simulator and is more than enough powerful to play at home, (at full power you can easily make all your neighbors angry)
I'm not missing any point. I check the stores every day, and Rocksmith for windows is still not there. Meanwhile, I'm having fun, and I'm learning. You don't need rocksmith to learn, you need to play to learn. I'm reading that people bought guitars for rocksmith, and the guitars are sitting around waiting for it. I'm saying "don't wait". Oh, did I mention that I'm learning without rocksmith?
PC version will probably be released at the same time as it reaches consoles in Europe. This will stop all of the people in EU just importing a cable from the US and downloading the game from a torrent site to play on PC region free. This way Ubisoft make a lot more money from the console audience in EU and don't loose as much to piracy.
Or it will make first time enthusiast peoples, which had pre order the game for most of them, become frustrated and change their mind about buying or not the game.
This could end up with lot of these peoples turning themselves on piracy because they don't want to give a cent to a company that have fooled them up.
Why the hell do game developers do this. There needs to be an open source gaming language which is cross platform compatible then if Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo want to have the game for their system they take their own devs and work out porting it. That way the game is in the public's hands faster, is less expensive for the game developer and exclusive only if the game sucks bad enough that the developers of these systems deem it not profitable enough to port it themselves. Plus the community can help update the code to make it more efficient and the game devs can get back to whats important: Content, story telling & game play.
It'll allow better content from an expanded developer base, less cost to the customers and more profit to the companies.
It's a customer, developer, & platform WIN-WIN-WIN.
Disappointing 🙁 I was looking forward to playing this game but I guess Ubisoft thought that only console users should be able to learn guitar. The idea that consoles are the best platforms for new releases is ridiculous. They would have reached far more people (including the console users) if they would have focused on just the PC and maybe had less bugs to troubleshoot as well since the whole team could have focused on the one platform instead of two. This is what happens when you leave critical decisions about software design in the hands of management/marketing instead of developers.
I am in the same boat as many who have commented above. I own PC and a Wii, but no PS3 or Xbox 360 and have no desire to purchase. The new release date given to me today is the 31st of March, but I am not holding my breath as it is the fourth release date given by Best Buy.
Dec. 13th, Dec. 31st, Jan. 31st, and now Mar. 31st. Wow, is Ubisoft just cheap and won't hire any more developers or allocate others to help fix problems AND meet deadlines?
If the developer has alterary motives to why they are not releasing the PC version they better be upfront about it because if this game is not released at all for the PC it will be horrible press for them and I will tell everyone who will listen how incompetent they are.
I am a drummer and thought this would be a fun way to learn the guitar however youtube and chordie.com are great resources in learning new songs in the absense of the PC version of Rocksmith, hear that Nao or Ubisoft? The concept of your game prompted me to buy a guitar, but will not be the reason I learn the guitar by the sounds of it! 😀
I preordered my copy of Rocksmith for PC back in November from bestbuy.com. On Dec 11 I got an email from Best Buy that my package would be ready to pick up in two days. So, two days later I went to the store to pick up my Rocksmith. They looked it up in the computer. According to their system the package had arrived. So they looked all over the place but could not find it. Finally they figured out that the software was never released and that it is delayed. What could I do? The bestbuy.com system screwed this up. They should have had a way to notify me that I would not be getting my Rocksmith, but they did not.
I'd be tempted to laugh except that I was really disappointed.
I'm worried the game will simply never ship. I'm tempted to buy the game for PS3 and go to GameStop and purchase a refurb PS3 for $199.
I just finished reading an article about another UBISOFT game that doesn't look like it's coming out for the PC.
Stanislas Mettra Creative director for "I AM ALIVE" is quoted as saying
"We’ve heard loud and clear that PC gamers are bitching about there being no version for them," said Mettra.
"But are these people just making noise just because there’s no version or because it’s a game they actually want to play? Would they buy it if we made it?"
Hopefully Rocksmith's creators take a different attitude.
Rocksmith is going ot chrun out awful sloppy players left and right. Sure, you may 100% a song, then go play through a real amplifier to find that you play and sound like crap!
Yes and once you realize you play and sound like crap you practice until you don't.
Then you find out it is extremely difficult to undo sloppy technique that set in to your muscle memory. You should have learned the right way from the get go, so you stay sloppy.
y u mad bro