All This Progress… Lost… Like Tears… In Rain…

It took a while but today I finally got around to firing up Rock Band on the PS3 only to encounter a moment of near total horror. I checked with the Harmonix technical support forums and it would seem there is no current way to circumvent this.

All our Rock Band progress is gone. It would seem that the game save files for Rock Band are also tied into the songs that you can purchase and download. As a result of some fairly extreme and digital rights management protocol to prevent people from sharing DLC songs, the game data is directly tied into the unique ID of every console. So once we got the new PS3 as a replacement, we could no longer access our characters, bands and platinum status for finishing the Endless Setlist are gone. We still have the data, we just can’t use it unless we miraculously found our old console and stuck the hard drive in that.

What an utterly demoralizing discovery to make on Easter…