What they did was give us mostly the album stuff off nevermind, but not the single. this way they can string the singles out on rainy dlc weeks and possibly (actually, probably) on rb3 and make us buy the next game for the full album.

The Genius of Harmonix' Plan:

much less of a deal for each pack and no deal on the singles inevitably released = more money for hmx. this is because hmx is greedy and found the best way to get the most possible money (which they did, outstandingly so) off this album and their evil plan has worked perfectly. they sold us on rock band with the amazingly well performed "non-promise" that they strung along for well over a year and essentially sold us rock band 2 again with this same "non-promise" before dismantling it by pulling out the get-out-of-jail-free card by saying "well, we never technically announced the nevermind album." after letting everybody's hopes fall to the way side, then they yank us back up with the inclusion of drain you in rock band 2. This got ppl saying "Hey, we might never get the full album, but we'll keep getting the hits eventually with every rock band title release, so all is not lost." This is the point we were at earlier today. now is the time they sucker punch us with the "nevermind rest of album" (breed aside being the biggest song here). Undoubtedly most fans will buy this in its entirety even though the discount is not that high at all, but being "justifiable" in fans' eyes. This leads to ppl buying the entire rest of album. If the actual album was released there would be far more cherry picking off the album, only grabbing singles. Now, hmx can string these singles at full price, holding more than likely at least one song back as a disc song for the inevitable Rock Band 3, 4, and possibly even Rock Band 5, forgoing dlc all together. This way, if you indeed want the full album as they non-promised have been here since day one, buying rock band 1, you will have potentially (under the circumstances described above) spent at least $331 (5 rb games at $60, $11 on this pack, and also assuming u pay $5 for each transfer so u can have all songs on one game) on hmx software in order to get the full nevermind album. And most likely everyone will pay it, not even realizing the amount of money spent. Hmx is successfully toying with fans emotions treating our hopes and dreams like a yo-yo to squeeze out every single possible dollar from us over this album, and doing it with surgeon-like accuracy and precision, surgically removing us from our money. They are truly the drug-peddling Mafiosos and we as fans are their simple drug addicts going homeless. Harmonix isDarth Sidious/Emporer Palpatine.

here's my problem with halo 3 and with bungie. just underneath the surface there is a fantastic game here in halo 3. unfortunately the surface is filled with bungie's logical fallacies and self-righteous ignorance. they think they know what's best because they created halo 1 and 2. they defined modern console shooters and they defined online console shooters. they sold a -blam!- load of copies of both. regardless if halo 3 was a pet simulator or a tamogotchi, they were going to break sales records. this lead to them having a super huge ego where they think they know whats best. that's why they don't listen to us when we ask them to fix matchmaking issues or logical fallacies like this penalization for example. thats why instead of having team snipers we have pistols and shotguns and power ups. instead of having games ppl want we get stuck with silly ass swords games in lone wolves, somehow a game of this manner determines ur skill level? instead of brs we have assault rifle starts on too big and open for ar maps like pit and standoff? instead of letting the gamers decide whats fun they enforce their opinions on everyone about what they think is fun. like i said, underneath the garbage that bungie created on top, halo 3 is a good game; u just have to get past bungie's self righteous mess to find it (hint: its in customs).

Jeff Gerstmann, the soul of Gamespot (or atleast, what gamespot should be) has been fired, as you are all aware.

BS.

So for "internal reasons" you fire your 98% of your site's credibility??? Regardless of whether it had anything to do with Kane & Lynch, Eidos, or any outside persuasions, the fact that you fired the only person who has any real credibility for reviewing games is sad and pathetic. Jeff Gerstmann was the only credible reviewer left, aside from Brian Ekberg's near nonexistent reviews. How many does he do, like three a year? Obviously no offense to him as he is the only reviewer left that is completely honest and his reviews scaled against each other correctly based on the game's quality, but he rarely even gets to review any sports games. Jeff was the only reviewer qualified enough to review the Halo's, COD 4's, and Crysis's of the gaming world (as evidenced by o'campo's pathetic graphics only review of crysis). I remember back in the day when this site had a legitimate staff. Greg Kasavin was a stringent and harsh reviewer, but against each other, his reviews were absolutely correct and reliable. Jeff Gerstmann was simply universally the best. His reviews and criticisms he leveraged against games were put in the proper context and he properly weighted games he reviewed not only against his other reviews and the others in the genre, but he also had them perfectly weighted against the rest of the gaming landscape. He knew the exact value of a AAA title, or a 6.0 title. He by far held the definitive answer for a game's quality. Now that credibility is gone. No matter what Gamespot says or does, now matter what their reasononing for his termination, can not make up for the fact that they fired (almost) the only honest man left on this site who is a purely objective critic. That is an absolute travesty.