Rock Band 4 won't be coming to PC, at least in the near future. And there are two major reasons for that: the music library, and piracy.
Not piracy involving the game software itself, but rather the music within the game. Licensing music is expensive, and developer Harmonix is responsible for how that music is used. Harmonix developer Daniel Sussman tells Eurogamer that consoles have better safety measures to ensure the security of the music files, while it's a bit more tricky on the PC side.
"There's something comforting about the closed network that comes along with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One," Sussman says. "That's important to our partners in the music industry. Not to say that's an unsolvable problem."
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Not piracy involving the game software itself, but rather the music within the game. Licensing music is expensive, and developer Harmonix is responsible for how that music is used. Harmonix developer Daniel Sussman tells Eurogamer that consoles have better safety measures to ensure the security of the music files, while it's a bit more tricky on the PC side.
"There's something comforting about the closed network that comes along with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One," Sussman says. "That's important to our partners in the music industry. Not to say that's an unsolvable problem."
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