Rocksmith+ is a Subscription Service to Help You Learn How to Play Guitar - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 June 2021 / 1,058 Views
Ubisoft during its Ubisoft Forward E3 2021 showcase announced subscription-based service, Rocksmith+. The closed beta will go live later today and will be available this summer for PC, and for consoles in Fall 2021.
View the launch trailer below:
View an interview with the producer below:
Here is an overview of the service:
Learn to play acoustic, electric, or bass guitar with Rocksmith+, the only subscription service that offers interactive music learning using official song masters and personalized real-time feedback. Rocksmith+ has been built upon the proven Rocksmith method which has helped almost 5 million people learn how to play guitar.
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Why a subscription service, of all things? This is very scummy monetization, considering that people who really want to learn guitar will take months and months. And I bet they will sell the songs individually as well.
People pay for guitar lessons for years. What's wrong with doing it this way?
You pay a teacher monthly for lessons, but if you buy a self-learning book, you want to pay once. If you're going to self-learn a skill by following a set series of instructions instead of an actual instructor with the actual benefit that brings, why pay monthly? Especially if you're having difficulties and need more time that what the program promises.
Because if you bought a songbook, it would come with a set number of songs that would not increase.
It's not like once you know how to play guitar you can easily apply it to any song. You have to practice each one. And Rocksmith actually does make it easier to learn a new song. It isn't as good as a one on one tutor, but it is far superior to looking up tabs on the internet or having a book.
The problem with Rocksmith was that most of the songs they had weren't songs I was interested in, so, any songs I wanted to learn would have to be purchased individually. Which kind of sucks. Releasing it as a 60 dollar product makes it kind of hard to ensure each player has the songs that they're interested in (unless it just like shipped with a certain number of download tokens or something like that which poses its own problems). A service, assuming they add new songs regularly, makes much more sense.
Further, licensing song costs money. So, it is entirely reasonable that they would charge for songs. Either consumers have to pay by the song, subscribe, or they would only be able to use Rocksmith to learn a certain amount of songs, and hope that the next 60 dollar product they buy will have more songs they like on it.
Dunno if you played guitar or Rocksmith, but as someone who has tried it, this makes much more sense if done right. Games as a service is not intrinsically bad.
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