( Rock Band 4, which launched October 2015, is the latest game.) While they cost money, they can be kept and played even if they’re removed from the online offerings.įor Guitar Hero Live, once Guitar Hero TV closes players will have just the 42 songs that were available on the disc when it launched. The Rock Band series, by contrast, has more than 2,000 downloadable content songs spanning a franchise dating to 2007. Apparently, the end of their licensing agreements comes in December, so out goes it all. The trade-off is that the song catalog, which Ars Technica notes stands at 484, would only be available as long as Activision supported it. When it launched in October 2015, Guitar Hero TV eschewed paid downloadable content to expand the game’s song library, where songs were made free in a rotation, although some were also accessible through microtransactions. Guitar Hero Live’s streaming music service, Guitar Hero TV, will close down in December, effectively cutting the game’s accessible library to just 42 songs.

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