Subscription gaming, downloadable content, and micro payments, are the best things to happen to video gaming since Doom. I'm sorry you don't appreciate these innovations. Perhaps you are too young, and have been spoiled by all the hard work which goes into keeping your tiny little attention span happy. The rest of us remember Atari 2600 games costing the same price as games do today, so clearly the quality to cost ratio has gone way up. Go ahead, play COMBAT on the Atari 2600 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_(video_game)] then Battlefield:1943 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_1943], then realize that Battlefield:1943 costs half as much as COMBAT did thirty years ago.