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Originally Posted by Craig  |
I was thinking about that earlier today, more in relation though to how the summer months are usually lean times for online gaming, and that it might not be as lean this year as others. Think about it, (and this applies especially to families) with rising costs across the board (food, gas, other travel, shipping, etc), a good alternative to a vacation or other types of entertainment are (relatively) cheap video games.
Don't get me wrong, there are a ton of other things to do on the cheap in a bad economy, but I can definitely see spending $20-40 on a game as a good way of escapism.
(my original thoughts on this were more directed towards BF2 and how it was A) a summer launch, and B) did rather well)