Comments on: SingStar Developers’ Response To The Community

By: djsnoop

djsnoop — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:05:33 +0000

when is the update available? i have recently downlaoded an update and have now lost 50% of my downloaded songs

By: cindycyp

cindycyp — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:23:58 +0000

does anyone know how big the latest update is for singstar? Version 4.30?

By: TheMotherPlucker

TheMotherPlucker — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:27:58 +0000

I did exactly what I was supposed to with lost songs from update I deleted & re-downloaded. Every song I downloaded prior to 2/18/09 is gone out of my purchase history. How am I supposed to get those songs back? I don’t think I should have to pay for songs I already paid for because update deleted all my stuff.

By: mrfixit426

mrfixit426 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:42:30 +0000

Is there any news on version 4.3? I can no longer log in to my account through Singstar and all tracks saved on my HDD have been wiped. A ridiculous situation considering the amount of money I have spent on this game, and with Christmas around the corner too.

By: enepe

enepe — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:44:34 +0000

Hello, I would like to suggest some major improvments to Singstar.
Being a fan, I buy almost every version of singstar, so, here it comes:

1) The new discs should be available in the singstore – I have lots of them and can’t play – in the same game – songs from two of them.

2) We should be able to create our own playlists from our carroussel. I have some friends who just want to sing rock, others R/B, etc.

I think those two are major improvments that should be made.

Thanks

By: sickpupp

sickpupp — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:33:08 +0000

Quick question, has the dodgy patch been pulled? What with Christmas coming the ol’ singstar is going to get an airing again but I don’t want to download the patch if it breaks things. Was it removed when the bugs were discovered or will it still prompt me to download the patch?

I just want to know so I can play offline if need be until 4.3 comes out.

By: sprokino

sprokino — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:46:10 +0000

Hi! ANASTACIA RECQUEST
I Would really love some more song from Anastacia! She has so many good nr 1 hits, but only one song in Singstore. There where two more songs released on singstar games to PS2, Left Outside Alone & Sick N Tired why are they not available on Singstore?. What about a Anastacia pack or two? Its Really time for uploading more of her song to the store.

Would love some more of her songs like:
Cowboys and Kisses
Not That Kind
Why’d You Lie To Me
You’ll Never Be Alone
One Day In Your Life
Sick N Tired
Left Outside Alone
Heavy On My Heart
Welcome To My Truth
Pieces of A Dream
I Can Feel You
Everything Burns ft. Ben Moody

By: Mav3000

Mav3000 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:31:52 +0000

My wish list:

1) Sort SingStore tracks by date released

2) Optionally link player names to PS3 profiles on the PS3.

3) Speed up the servers.

4) Tweak the voice recognition to be able to understand ‘Leona Lewis’!

5) fix ‘auto calibrate’ lag – whether the mic is 10cm from the tv speaker, 30cm or 0cm – it simply states that calibration was unsuccessful

6) Allow pictures to be added as player photos – we don’t all have Eye Toys.

7) Allow SingStar discs to be downloaded onto the PS3 HD (in the same was as GH5).

Get all PS2 exlcusive games onto the SingStore

9) Fix rap scoring – way too hard and not fun.

10) Lower the requirements for all online-based Trophies – having trophies we can’t control is unfair.

11) Add a Stats screen to show us how many battles, duets, solos we have played.

12) For each song, show when itwas last sung, and how many times.

13) On the leaderboards, show whether a song was achieved on the ‘normal’ or ‘short’.

14) Create online leaderboards.

15) Add me to the SingStar beta / testing team

By: Rockstarmd

Rockstarmd — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:55:47 +0000

Has the new update gone through yet? Is it safe for us to log into singstar? Also please consider Singstar GLEE, please please please.

By: Ivan_Krazy

Ivan_Krazy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:24:56 +0000

Also another thing with Singstar…. Why cant we get an option to purchase microphone with SingStar Volume 2 either wireless or wired microphones… what if someone like me wanted wireless ones? What we have to purchase an extra two for the sake of it? Come on give us an option!

By: Bohemian-Scout

Bohemian-Scout — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:54:40 +0000

I wish the highscore tables only had each player’s best score. My wife and daughter are much better than the rest of us and soon monopolise all the highscore tables. So we never get to see our personal bests

By: Rockstarmd

Rockstarmd — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:57:55 +0000

Yeah, I completely agree with Dragon_Freeman the amount of updates are very, very small. If they at least updated the store with songs that were on previous ps2 discs that would already be a vast improvement. Is there any reason why those ps2 songs are not on the store already you should already have the rights and stuff to the songs. Also when will US get the wireless mics you would think they would have rolled this out to all the regions I have been waiting for them since they first announced them in april. Appreciate you guys getting feedback from the community it was much needed. Biggest thing is better music selection and better support of US users we play the games also.

By: Dragon_Freeman

Dragon_Freeman — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:28:49 +0000

Hi Dave,

I am from the US and was wondering why our Singstore updates are so small and not as much to pick from as the Europe updates. Is it because of the small install base in the US? I tried posting on the US Playtstation blog about it but never got a response. We just need someone to shed some light into this situation because I am not the only that wondering why our updates so small.

Also why is the wireless Mics not released in the US yet? I imported mine and I think they are great mics even better than the wired mics. My friends want to get them too but do not want to import them.

Love the game but just a little disappointed with the US updates.

Thanks

By: Mike Rouse

Mike Rouse — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:02:37 +0000

Thank you all for your feedback and questions. Although we could not reply to everyone we have read through all of your comments. There have been some fantastic ideas, some of which the team already have planned for the future and some new ideas that our design team are looking at now. The SingStar 4.30 update is progressing well and we hope to be in Format QA by Tuesday night. We are also upgrading our servers around the time of the 4.30 release and this is also on schedule.

Thank you once again for being patient

Kind Regards

Mike Rouse
SingStar® – Senior Producer

By: diademcrest07

diademcrest07 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:26:02 +0000

I also have a dlc request for songs from artists already on the Singstore:

Duran Duran – Come Undone, A View to A Kill
Killers – Human
The Clash – London Calling
Tears for Fears – Head over Heels
Spandau Ballet – Only When You Leave
David Bowie – China Girl, Modern Love

Thanks again!

By: diademcrest07

diademcrest07 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:16:22 +0000

Hey Singstar Team,

Can you please release more details to the US Singstar Community about future releases? To be honest, the lack of support is poor compared to Europe, and I don’t even care about the fewer new releases we get each week.

Given that, would it be possible you guys to do something like this post on the US Playstation Blog?

Finally, I had preordered Singstar Motown for the October 13th release here in the US, and was very disappointed when it was pushed back and then canceled.

By: Ivan_Krazy

Ivan_Krazy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:07:02 +0000

Singstar sucks…. we got so many lags and yet Sony accepts it. About time you guys are doing something about it. I am not planning to purchase anything from the store anyway. By just logging online with constant lag was a very bad start and a poor sign of reliability. Maybe Sony should stop ripping us fellow consumers off too with the purchasing of online music. Honestly Sony I would rather invest my money on games rather than the music for singstar. I am not planning in the near future to purchase anything on the singstore or whatever its called. I don’t know why I bought Singstar in the first place because Volume 2 has a bad collection of songs and 92% of them are boring as hell.

Bleh thanks Sony! Boring start with Singstar

By: Xardas-87

Xardas-87 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:17:15 +0000

Hey,

i got another suggestion for you guys. I’m not the only one who would love to see a tool to make your own (micro-)medleys for Singstar. It would be awesome to mix both disc and singstore songs. Maybe you could take a look at that or pass it on to your colleagues…

By: dose_uk

dose_uk — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:26:46 +0000

My question…When are the servers going to be able to cope with simply going from screen to screen in the online menus? It has been terrible since launch as the game waits to stream the content for each menu. (btw, it’s not my connection as everything else is fine!). This has frustrated many people who I have played Singstar with as we try and download more songs.
You can’t even quit to the Singstar main menu if you realise it is going to take forever, you can only sit there and wait.
Thanks
Paul

By: partydamo

partydamo — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:43:56 +0000

hi there,
good to see you’re starting to take community feedback onboard. this is an awesome game but the additional support would really keep the fans happier than they are right now i guess.
this isn’t feedback per se, but more of a suggestion, which i’m surprised you haven’t thought of already…(?)
there needs to be a mode whereby you can just use singstar as a video jukebox, with the option – of course – to randomly jump in and murder it with your own interpretation of the vocals =D
oh and while i’m here – why no more U2 than two songs? that back catalogue is one seriously juicy cash cow waiting to be milked, again and again…

ps – you can send me a cut of the profits from my video jukebox idea, i won’t be greedy; let’s call it quits at a nice even 20%