>Old man mode engaged: That is one hundred dollars, or more than
>I paid for my first automobile. I would feel intense resentment at
>being expected to pay that kind of money for an entire game.

Heh. :) I'm not about to do it myself... well, not out of cash, anyway. Several of my smaller C-store purchases were made with Zen I'd bought for dilithium, actually, and if I really put my nose to that grindstone I could crank out enough Zen that way to get the entire 9-pack in somewhere between a month and a month and a half.

Not that I'd actually do that, either -- I've done some crazy grinds in MMOs before, and I've had my fill of them. I'm still in Tier I of Dyson Sphere rep (compared to some of my fleetmates that have capped out that rep grind already), and I've gotten that far mostly because the Battlezone is still quite fun for me.

"Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis."
- Kenneth Boulding