Will BFD3 Kits work with BFD Player?

[gcdahlman]

Nice to see the BFD Player out and that development continues - though it doesn’t look as versatile as BFD3. If we download the Player, will our existing expansion packs/BFD2-3 kits work with it?

[CHASER]

Short answer…No…

BFD Player and additional kits?

Alesis owners already get the Dark Mahogany pack for free, whereas it will be a paid pack at launch. Everyone will get the Core Library for free. Other packs will be paid (cheaper than existing BFD packs!) One of my future goals is to ensure compatibility between existing BFD3 packs and BFD Player, and I’m looking into the feasibility of that now. It requires a lot of content upgrade work, so it won’t be something that happens immediately. In essence, BFD Player will eventually have access to …

[rolandk]

Will the new licensing system be coin operated?

[Fender_Bender]

Will the licensing system just go away?

[rolandk]

Will I ever become the famous rock star that I’d dreamed of becoming, even though I am in a race against the music industry for which one of us will die first from old age?

I just hope that one day we can go a full year without a reminder that we don’t own the software.