Rock Band 2 - Export Fee, WtF!?

So, I recently tried to do one of the Battle of the Bands in Rock Band 2. A lot of them require certain downloaded songs, which is fine, but some also require songs from Rock Band 1. A big promo thing with Rock Band 2 seemed to be the ability to export your songs from RB1 onto your XBox hard drive and then play them on RB2, right? Well, what they didn't advertise was the fact that if you want to do this, you have to purchase the export rights for your Rock Band 1 songs from the Xbox Live Marketplace. You already own Rock Band 1, but in order to put MOST (not even all) the songs onto your Xbox so that they are playable with Rock Band 2, you have to pay 400 Microsoft Points! That's about $6.00, which is not crazy expensive, but considering you already bought both RB1 and RB2, it just seems somewhat ridiculous for them then to ask for more money! If you need the songs from RB1 to play RB2 to it's full potential, they should have been included on the RB2 Disk, or the exporting should not have a fee! I understand that it's probably some licencing thing that requires you to purchase the exporting rights, but it should either be included in the price of the game, paid for by the company, or the songs from Rock Band 1 should not be required to do anything in Rock Band 2. I'm kinda pissed about it. I needed the Garbage song from RB1 to do a Battle of the Bands, but in order to get it, I would have needed to fork out 400 Microsoft Points, which I decided was too much!

Let me know if you agree/ disagree and if anyone actually paid the $6.00 to play the game you already owned. I admit that I almost did, lol but then was too angry.

Too Many Games, Not Enough Time!

Forgive my recent slacking in the blog area! I just got my Internet connection back not long ago, just in time for every game I have been waiting for to come out, all in like a three month period! I didn't have trouble deciding between games, because I just got them all, lol, but now I have a new problem! I don't have enough time to play all these games to their full potential!

I got Rock Band 2 first, and played that ALMOST all the way through, but I didn't have XBL then, so I haven't actually tried much of the online play yet, which I really want to do, but I just haven't found the time. I then got Gears of War 2. I LOVED GoW1, and chainsawed the hell out of people, but I have barely even touched GoW2 yet! I played Fallout 3 for a couple hours. It is awesome, and I love it, but I've only actually sat down and played it twice! Then there is Wrath of the Litch King, which did absorb a week of my life there, but even my old vice World of Warcraft, isn't getting the obsessive attention it rightfully deserves!!! I also bought Fable 2, and CoD World at War, but haven't even had a chance to play them once yet!!!

I get that everyone brings out their new games around Christmas time, but c'mon! It's just too many really good games all at the same time! I am overwhelmed! Needless to say they are all fantastic and you should make sure Santa knows you want them all!