They have some song bundles mostly by band/group or genre. Also don't see what's the issue with the DLC? They just give you plenty of songs to buy, just like for example Itunes.

Exact same game as before, only 65 songs (which is really bad, how many of those do you even like?) and 2000 overpriced dlc songs? Still 80% on metacritic, lmao.

The DLC is questionable because if you want all of the content in this game you are spending just shy of $4,000. If you include the game and the 'instruments' that come with the game it cost more than $4,000 for the full experience.
I understand that you can download music from iTunes, downloading music gives you multiple downloads, which you can upload onto you phone, computer, iPod etc. The DLC for this game is only for that, this game. Yes you are buying music, but it is different to the experience in buying music on iTunes is. Also iTunes is cheaper as others have pointed out.

I understand that programming and licensing is involved, however with the core game already being built the programming would be fairly easy to carry over into other tracks. Rythm games are not necesssarily as state of the art as other games on the market, most of the cost in making developing a game such as this would be licensing. If you are content with only downloading a couple of tracks it is fine, however, it is a completionists nightmare. 

Wow. That's very pathetic. I won't support this type of game.

Normally a developer/publisher can do some DLC BS like this and I can be like "I don't support them but I'll still get the game and enjoy"

However this takes it too far lol.

Agreed!

I think mostly the problem are the included songs on the retail game. While having the option to buy thousands of songs may sound cool, the included/DLC ratio is just ridiculous.

65/2000

Its like Smash including 2 characters on the regular roster at full retail price, while having 60 for DLC. 

Money to the artist of the song, money to the developer to make it work on Rock Band... while it makes sense, I think 50p would have done, not like you can upload it to your iPod...

I used to think the same but then the cynic inside me thought that TW3 free dlcs were cut out of the game as a PR stunt. The expansions seem good value for money, even if I didn't like the game.

Where are all the complaints about previous Rock Band Games, which were exactly the same, but had LESS CHOICE... It's ridiculous to say Harmonix expects people to buy $4k of DLC, but it is there as a choice.

It's like saying PS4 has $500 worth of games coming out this month, and saying that's a negative.

RB4 has 65 tracks on disc, that seems good, but I'm no expert as the only one of these types of games I've ever bought was GH4 5 or more years ago.

I just think alot of people have seen the headline and boarded the hate train.

As far as I understand the situation it's not like the 'full expierience' for this one game includes 2000 songs though. These songs have accumulated over the course of at least three full priced retail games with 54-80 songs each and I don't know how many expansions.
While i do think it's a problem that they disabled the import for the earlier Rockband games into Rockband 3, you could theoretically get all of those ca. 200 - 500 songs at no additional cost for Rockband 4, because you have payed for them before.
I still think the songs themselves are probably a bit overpriced, but I also don't know how pricey the bundles are.
It would be cool If they had a legacy bundle that includes all the on disk songs from Rockband 1-3 for a reduced price though.

Well this really isn't comparable to any other type of game DLC, how many songs is the the average person actually going to want? The pricing is quite fair (although they should do discounted bundles of 5, 20, 50 tracks etc), theres just a high abandance of third party licensed content.

I wonder how many tracks the game comes with?

Yeah...I fail to see the issue here. There are just a lot of songs...Your DLC even carries over if you had any from older games.

If we're simply using the metric of "more = worse" than having less content would be better?

I don't plan on buying Rockband, but sometimes I think the DLC hate misses the forrest for the trees.