It’s the tip of an period. A very, actually spectacular period. After over eight years of continuous releases, Harmonix introduced that the ultimate DLC for Rock Band 4 will likely be dropped subsequent week.

Harmonix launched a weblog submit confirming information that January 25 will see the final batch of DLC launched for the 2015 rhythm title. The announcement got here as a shock to followers of the sequence, and it’s certain to get the remaining devoted gamers a bit emotional.

Saying that Rock Band 4‘s DLC journey started in 2015 isn’t fairly correct, although. It actually began in 2007 following the discharge of the unique Rock Band.

One of many stunning issues concerning the Rock Band sequence is that followers who adopted Harmonix throughout Rock Band, Rock Band 2, Rock Band 3, and Rock Band 4 might deliver their track libraries with them. Which means almost each track from every recreation’s authentic observe checklist, the overwhelming majority of DLC bought throughout these titles, in addition to content material from spin-off titles like Lego Rock Band and Inexperienced Day: Rock Band, may very well be ported into Rock Band 4.

It was a characteristic that appeared inconceivable when you concentrate on having to take care of all of these music licenses. Harmonix pulled it off although, enabling those that sought to buy every thing out there to construct music libraries of properly over 3,000 tracks.

As for the ultimate DLC songs, the developer states it “will characteristic some tear jerkers that sum up our emotions about this second.” January 18 will embody Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Highway” and The Troggs’ “Our Love Will Nonetheless Be There”. What’s to come back for the next week’s closing DLC drop is to be introduced.

Harmonix did affirm that this isn’t the tip of Rock Band 4 completely. Whereas DLC will stop to launch, the sport will nonetheless assist on-line play, ongoing Rival seasons, and “every thing else.”

What’s subsequent for Harmonix?

What’s subsequent for the rhythmic developer seems to be Fortnite Pageant for the foreseeable future. Harmonix confirmed that the Fortnite-based music title has been the crew’s major focus during the last couple of years. The free-to-play mode will proceed to get a rotating number of free songs to play. Epic Video games lately confirmed that including instrument controller assist is “a precedence for the crew and at the moment below improvement.”

Following the very profitable launch of Rock Band in 2007, every subsequent iteration of the core sequence noticed a big decline in gross sales. Co-publisher of Rock Band 4, Mad Catz, thought-about Rock Band 4 gross sales to be “extremely disappointing“. The corporate filed for chapter in March of 2017.

With the lackluster gross sales efficiency of Rock Band 4, it’s unknown whether or not Harmonix’s guardian firm Epic Video games will see any worth in a attainable Rock Band 5. It will be tragic if this was the tip of the enduring rhythm sequence, as longtime followers like myself know that Fortnite Pageant simply isn’t fairly the identical.