The music industry thrives on this model. Ask anyone who bought an album on Vinyl, then again on 8-track, then later cassette, then finally CD, whoops, not done yet, now digital. (did I get 'em all?) Vinyl’s back, at triple the price, yes?
That’s not how licenses work. They’re usually very specific, so while an update (going from 1.0 to 2.0) would be covered in most instances, an entirely new product would not. Owners of the original RS who purchased RS2014 had to pay an additional fee to import their song list from the original to the newer version.
It would. And there’s not enough information about the RS+ catalogue to know what’s going on at this time, so optimism doesn’t hurt. However, when users are paying for a service, not specific content, then the catalogue is subject to change. Just ask any Office fan with a Netflix subscription.
There are 1447 licensed official DLC files for RS2014 that you could buy (OLDC) - original DLC. Even if 100% transferred to RS+, a lot of users wouldn’t be able to use the majority of their library, because it was CDLC not OLDC.
There are easily over 5000 custom, user created DLC songs (CDLC). It’s hard to know the actual number because there are multiple versions of many songs, and because they’re adding new ones all the time - in fact 9 songs were added today 6/18/21 and 16 were added yesterday 6/17/21. The file count is currently 51,310 total songs. 0% of those will be usable in RS+
Laughably - Ubisoft has said, “The new Rocksmith Workshop lets you transcribe your own arrangements from a list of songs that we have already licensed from our music partners.” In other words - you can do their work for them and transcribe songs they have already licensed - but you don’t have any say in what get’s licensed. You’re completely at the mercy of their choices, which can change at any time. They also won’t reveal what the track list is. What if your top 10 favorite artists aren’t represented at all? That ensures they’ll get at least one month’s subscription out of you just to see if there are any songs you want to play. And if your favorite song is there, and you play Billie Jean every day for a month - getting close to perfecting it - Ubisoft can just remove it the next month and you’re just s#%t-out-of-luck.
We’re just feeling the sting of what gamers have complained about for a decade now - subscription models suck, and DLC is ridiculously expensive (if you had purchased all the RS DLC available at their normal rate it would cost $4341, so even if you got it at a firesale for 50% off it was over $2K easily).
They’re going the Songster route, letting the users do the work (and the accuracy will be all over the place).
Chordify may not be anywhere near as pretty (no note highway) or detailed (it’s chords-only) and their automatic chord finder is not 100% accurate, but for under a $25/year (on sale) and the ability to give me guideposts for ANY youtube video I can play in my region, it’s a much better value.
