Does it make me a bad person not to pay full price for a game?  If I were to buy new games used, I could see an argument, but to pay 60 bucks every time I wanted to play a game, that just doesn't seem realistic.  Where will it end?  Will games actually get closer to the big 100 in the future?  I think it is just crazy how expensive games are now a days.  I mean I understand that big games have big production and development costs, but 60 dollars really?  I can't remember the last game that I paid full price for.  There really are just too many games out that are worth playing that I would go broke trying to buy them all.  So, like most recently with Assassin's Creed II, I wait for the price to go down.  I jump at the chance to go to my local Walmart because they have a great section for reduced priced games.  A bargin bin of sorts except it is a whole section.  The thing that I give up in this trade off to save some money ofcourse is that the games that I play are not new anymore.  For instance, I just recently got Dead Space.  Picked it up for 20 bucks.  Now from everything I read about that game when it came out, it was well worth 60 bucks.  Now some time has passed and it might not be as new and revolutionary as it once was in it's prime, but for 20 bucks I would buy just about any game.  And I have bought some bad games.  But it is easier to spend 20 then it is to spend 60.  Think of what else you could do with 60 bucks.  You could buy 4 movies with that money.  You could pay a phone bill.  You could take your family out to eat.  You could go to the movie theater, if you cared for that sorrt of thing.  Call me crazy but I just don't see how a game, even a good one, could possibly be worth that much.  At most you get a few days of entertainment but then its over and what becomes of it?  It sits on a shelf for some while others trade it in for what scraps you can get for it at your local "game retailer."  I am sure I can't be the only one who feels this way.  I already know David Jaffe feels the same way about the pricing of games.  Is 10 dollars for 4 hours a good trade off?  I don't know about that.  I don't know how much of a story you can really portray in only 4 hours.  Could you imagine playing a game like Metal Gear Solid 4 if it was only 4 hours long?  Or GTA: IV?  So then what would the solution be to lower prices for games but have them retain their entertianment value?  Episodic content?  I don't think that is the answer, because at the end of the day you still end up spending 60 dollars, or more for a game.  And thats another thing.  This DLC crazy.  Somehow 60 bucks isn't enough anymore they want you to shell out another 10 for a multiplayer map pack.  Now keep in mind this is someone who doesn't play any game online.  For obvious reasons.  And if they aren't obvious to you then you are probably the reason for it.  Anyways, I have a hard enough time explainging to my wife, who is not a gamer, why Assassin's Creed II is worth the 40 bucks I spent on it  Maybe it is just the value of the dollar hits home more now a days then it used to.  Yet even in a crummy economy, they still pump out "gotta have" games.  The list of such games, that I had every intention of playing but probably won't get to, is so long that games just fall off the end.  Like Mirror's Edge.  I had every intention of playing that when it came out.  And even after the reviews for the game were in, it still seemed like an experience worth having, I just had to wait for the price drop.  Now you can't even find that game anymore and with talk of Mirror's Edge 2 on the horizon, it is doubtful I will ever get to it.  That makes me think that I am missing something great.  Not exactly Mirror's Edge, but... well take for example Uncharted.  The first one.  I wanted to play that game because it looked awesome.  Then tome passed and it was still 60 bucks.  More time passed but no price drop.  Then I forgot about it.  Luckily I was at Kmart one day and happened to see it in a stack at the bottom of the display case.  If I had not gone to that Kmart, I would have never played Uncharted and I would have missed out on a great game experience.  I don't know what the solution is but I do know that I can't afford to buy Borderlands, Fallout 3, Batman Arkam Asylum, Modern Warfare 2, etc etc for 60 bucks a pop.  Not to mentiont all the games coming out this year that will be spectacular.  Maybe it is just me, but there doesn't seem to be a way where everybody wins.  Someone always has to lose.