Rock Band Blitz Coin Economy Changes

Rock Band Blitz Coin Economy Changes

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Written by Kendrene on 07 September 12 at 18:33

if you are struggling to climb the Rock Band Blitz or gold star a song, the coin economy changes implemented by Harmonix will probably make your life easier. Here is a recap of the tweaks applied to the game; remember, more coins in your pocket equal more power-ups in your songs!

Cost of Power-ups:
- Overdrive Power-ups: 250 coins per use
- Note Power-ups: 200 coins per use.
- Track Power-ups: 100 coins per use.
(note: it now only costs 550 coins for a full Power-up loadout!)

Song Performance Coin Rewards:
- At the end of a song, you now get 100 Coins per Star across the board.

Score Wars:
- Winners of Score Wars will now be receiving 1500 coins at completion.
- Losers of Score Wars will now be receiving 500 coins at completion.
You won't see a game update as all the changes were applied server side. If you want to add Rock Band Blitz to your game library, you can download it here.
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oxHARMONxo
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 18:34
Lol. Seen that coming fast.
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Callum x360a
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 18:37
It sucked having to play other songs to boost my coin count while getting the Gold Stars.
Dancing Rob
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 18:45
really not loving this game at all.

Not sure if I can be bothered with the 'play 300 songs' achievement, as I already feel I've seen everything, and have maybe played 100 or so songs so far.
zyxomma100
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 18:46
The best solution would've been if the coin system was removed so that powerups were permanently unlockable. However, there's an achievement for spending x amount of coins, so they couldn't do that. I guess this is the next best thing.
The Ju1ce
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 18:47
this kind of defeats the purpose of a coin system, which is a good thing because it was a stupid system. i don't mind unlocking the power-ups, but what's the point in making us pay coins to use them?
Rockox
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 19:00
Dancing Rob said:really not loving this game at all.

Not sure if I can be bothered with the 'play 300 songs' achievement, as I already feel I've seen everything, and have maybe played 100 or so songs so far.
Ditto. I got the "play 150 songs" achievement and I think I'm gonna stop there. Just not feelin' it, and I really can't be bothered to get up to 300.

I personally never had any problems having enough coins, but then again I never tried to gold-star a song or get high scores by playing a song over and over again.
Jaganboy
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 19:14
What bothers me is that this happened the day before I reached 300 songs and had done everything else. (100%ed the game about 3 hours ago. Yatta!)
Delith
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 19:20
That's an "Ironic" tagline.
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pandafromhell05
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 19:32
No lie, I'm actually glad they are changing that. I found myself going through my coins. I just wish that they actually didn't have the coins in the first place. I love the game, but it's kind of stupid that you have to use coins to use Powerups that you ALREADY unlocked.

What they should have done was make the Powerups REALLY hard to get, and make everything free.

Why does Harmonix have to make everything so damn complicated? Example - insane prices for pro guitars on RB3 and export fees from games.
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 19:50
This is nice, it sucked having to play 2 or 3 songs without powerups, so you could get coins to use powerups trying to 5 star or gold star the Rock Band Blitz songs.
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freakinalex
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 19:58
I saw the tagline and thought we were getting Hand in my Pocket. Now I'm kind of disappointed.

Still, nice to see some changes to the system. Even though it means nothing to me now. I have shit loads of coins as it is. But for people who haven't grinded out the gold stars yet, this will be a godsend.
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 20:08
Wasn't really too bothered by the coin deal. I would just go play a few new songs without powerups to gain some money. Still, this will help when I finally decide to take a run at the last few gold star songs I have left.
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 20:11
Does anyone else have a problem with the game losing connection to the server and in the same spot of a song for one the songs that comes with the game? It really sucks because I can't progress in the story I am going to try it on my either Xbox and see if it works. I even tried redownloading the game and it still does it.
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 20:15
Nothing on music game mod !!
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 20:30
If you used the Rock Band World thing on facebook there was no coin problem, they probably thought more people would use that. Oh well now I can stack up even more coins.
Beachem
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 20:59
That was a really good idea. This will make it so much easier to keep trying for gold stars on the blitz songs.
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 21:07
I did my 300 songs first while using no power ups. Needless to say I got tons of coins already but thanks for asking ;)
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Posted on 07 September 12 at 21:36
I got tons of coins from doing facebook goals so I never had an issue.