just got a free pass version from a buddy burning thought my 7 hours, got to say even thought i suck at it great game, sorry not art, but a wicked fun game.

My boy Phill Gonzalez is one of the artists on that game.  He designed most of the Terran buildings.

Jeff, what planet did you grow up on exactly? 60 bucks is about the average, note AVERAGE, price you can expect to be paying for new games these days. I'm surprised it's only 60 bucks, with the hype around it they could have gone much higher.

No I haven't bought it and probably won't, this is part because I'm a broke as all shit student and I'm not really a game guy.

It does depend on what you're use to. I'm a very casual gamer, and usually wait for prices to drop. Any desire to pay full day one price disappeared when they finally released a Mac version of Steam and put games on sale for under $10 $35 is probably the max I'd pay for a game, and then it has to be something like The Sims or Civilization where I know I'll get years of playing out of it...

But, Goldeneye probably cost $60 when it came out. Cart games justified the high cost because the extra memory chips did add an expense companies really had to pass on to consumers. I agree, older games are just as fun, but it's like shaking your head at those paying $30 for a new book when 100 year old ones are free online

I guess it's just an alignment-of-incentives problem for me. I don't care enough about games to fathom spending more than ten bucks on one, is probably the real bit of it.

Very true, but I was responding to your comment regarding shaking your head at those willing to pay for new things: "...isn't that a valid thing to do?"

I say, no The old and cheap is here because people paid for it when it was new and expensive. But, now that I think of it, you're young enough that this stuff in fact is "new" and cheap where as us older farts already enjoyed those old games and want something fresh much of the time.