Rock Band 4 Is Being Delisted from Digital Stores This Weekend

Rock Band 4 is being delisted from some the Xbox and PlayStation integer stores this play owed to expiring lusic licenses, developer Harmonix has confirmed.

The quality was posted crossed the game's authoritative Discord transmission and its subreddit. The informing has travel with conscionable days to act, and arrives connected the eve of the game's 10th anniversary.

"On Sunday, October 5, 2025, Rock Band 4 turns 10," reads the team's statement. "What a thrust it's been."

"With this milestone comes 1 large change: the archetypal licenses for the halfway soundtrack are expiring. Because of that, Rock Band 4 volition beryllium removed from the PlayStation and Xbox integer stores. If you already ain the game, thing changes — you'll support afloat entree and inactive beryllium capable to download the crippled and songs to immoderate new, compatible devices. The aforesaid applies to Downloadable Content (DLC): songs volition travel down arsenic they deed the 10-year mark, but thing you've purchased volition stay successful your library.

"We're truthful grateful for the passionateness this assemblage has shown. From the team, it's been a peculiar acquisition to service you with Rivals challenges, a ace heavy DLC room and a champion successful people set sim. If you've been meaning to drawback a fewer past songs, now's the time."

As of Sunday, Rock Band 4 and the Rock Band 4 DLC songs that were specifically released connected its motorboat time volition nary longer beryllium disposable to purchase. It has been clarified connected Discord that DLC tracks from prior Rock Band games (released earlier Rock Band 4) are not being delisted "yet", but the squad "will beryllium figuring those retired implicit the coming months."

Rock Band's unsocial attack to DLC has resulted successful the quality for owners to transportation their libraries of songs (plus exports of the tracklists of past Rock Band games) crossed 3 generations of console hardware. The attack has seen thousands of pieces of bespoke DLC released for the bid since 2007, astir each of which tin beryllium played wrong Rock Band 4.

The past DLC of the Rock Band 4 epoch was released successful January 2024, aft 8 years of play content. The quality that the axe is present looming for each Rock Band content, however, marks a bittersweet infinitesimal successful the past of the 18-year-old series.

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