We’re trying a new approach and we just hope that people enjoy it and people give us feedback.” This is stuff that’s going to be low-impact on the player and you’re just going to get it.

It’s easy for us to add a new song, it’s easy for us to add a new customisable highway or player card, even new game modes or new channels. We can make changes to it that the user will never see. It’s an always-online playable music video network. “We are planning on releasing a third channel actually pretty soon, and that will also be just a part of GHTV,” he continued. So we wanted to provide different ways for people to get access to music that they want.”īut while players will likely never be able to purchase any extra tracks for Guitar Hero Live (“We have no plans to do any traditional DLC or another disc even any time soon,” Norris says), the developer does have plans to continue expanding the online service with new channels and, potentially, new modes. But if you don’t want to do that you can just outright buy some Plays using real money currency. So if you want to play one song that you love 20 times in a row, you can do that by getting onto GHTV and earning in-game currency and then buying Plays with those. But at the same time we wanted to give people choice. You get all of this stuff right out of the box, you never have to spend another dime. “The thing is, for all that music you never have to put any more money into GHTV,” he continued. Norris argues, however, that the service offers players access to new music without ever having to spend any more money on DLC – even if they will never actually own the extra tracks. Essentially, then, by bypassing gameplay, a single Play token costs around $0.15 in the US.

Play tokens cost 45 Hero Cash each, and while UK pricing has yet to be confirmed, prices in the US range from $2.99 for a pack of 900 Hero Cash, to $19.99 for a pack of 6900 Hero Cash. Play tokens can be earned via gameplay or purchased with Coins or Hero Cash – the latter costing real world money. And for the most part, maybe I’ll seek out some bands I know and want to listen to but I just kind of let the internet tell me what to listen to.”

I’m old so I’ve got vinyl, love my vinyl, but apart from that I’m online. We took a look at how people get music these days, too. “We didn’t want to get the disc and have those songs and those are the songs that you get until we decide to release some DLC and maybe you’ll like some of that, maybe you won’t. We’ve got 42 on-disc, 200+ on GHTV, we’re going to have 70 more tracks by the end of the year, and we just wanted to provide a lot of variety for people. And additionally, we’re launching with more songs than have ever been available on a Guitar Hero ever. “That’s how we came up with this idea for the ‘Plays’. “We took a look at how people used their DLC in the past and how many times that a person who bought a song actually played that song,” designer Jim Norris explained to yesterday while discussing the new model. Players are also able to purchase a ‘Party Pass’ to gain unlimited access to all on-demand music for a limited period of time. The new game, which goes on sale in the UK this Friday, ships with 42 songs on-disc and a further 200+ through an online music network called Guitar Hero TV.īut players will never actually be able to own the additional songs available on GHTV, with FreeStyle abandoning Guitar Hero’s traditional DLC model for a method that lets players stream tracks at random for free, or play individual tracks on-demand by spending an in-game currency known as ‘Play’ tokens. FreeStyle Games has defended its decision to integrate microtransactions into Guitar Hero Live, explaining that it simply wanted to “provide a lot of variety” and “give people choice” over the way they accessed new music.

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