Harmonix, the Studio owned by Epic Games behind the popular rhythm game franchise Rock bandhas officially announced that it is concluding its weekly DLC releases for 2015s Rock band 4. The focus now is on support Fortnite Festivalinstead.
Rock band 4 was released almost a decade ago in October 2015 and marked a return for the franchise five years after its release Rock band 3 And the crash of games with plastic instruments How Guitar hero And DJ hero. While Rock band 4 was unable to rebuild the once great plastic instrument genre of rhythm games, it ended up creating a dedicated community of players who continued to enjoy the game and purchase DLC songs for it, even as replacement instrument instruments became increasingly difficult to find. Find controllers. Now, eight years and nearly 3,000 DLC songs later, Harmonix continues.
In a January 17 post on the official Harmonix blog out of Rock band 4According to product manager Daniel Sussman, the studio announced that the DLC music released on January 25th will be the last ever released Rock band 4. Sussman’s post clarified that all other live services, including Rivals Seasons and online play, will continue as normal. But no new titles will be added RB4 after this month.
Sussman also made it clear that all songs belong to the players Rock band 4 isn’t going anywhere, adding that you can rock out to your previously purchased songs “for as long as you want.”
Fortnite Festival is the future
As for what Harmonix is currently doing, it’s clear if you’re paying attention Fourteen days lately. Epic’s popular battle royale juggernaut expanded in December three new games built inside Fourteen days. One of them is Fortnite Festival, a controller-based rhythm game featuring popular songs from various genres. Harmonix is the team behind this game and that’s what the studio will be focusing on after the game.Rock band 4.
“Looking forward, the Harmonix team has worked hard on development over the past two years Fortnite Festival,” Sussman said.
And Sussman confirmed that again support for RB4 Instruments coming soon To festivalso you don’t have to hang up your guitars yet.
“Working to support the Rock band Community has been a highlight of my professional life,” Sussman explained.
“We thought long and hard about how we should design the final explosion RB4 DLC of this era. There will be some tears in the last two weeks that sum up our feelings about this moment. We thank you for your commitment and passion for this wonderful game. Long live rock’n’roll.”
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