I love games. I love PC games. I have a 56K dial up modem because I live in an area designated as rural (never mind we are surrounded by industrial Parks and malls.) That leaves out Guildwars, WoW,and a plethora of other games that look interesting but are graphic heavy. So, yesterday we are at Target. Chaos Monkey - as my daughter is known - and myself head over to the games after I pick up my flash drive.(The latest solution for the Vista vs the world issue) Some cool PS stuff, we don't have one. Nada for Cube. We laugh at POP on the WII, I am active enough on the cube I can imagine the acrobatics I would do using a WII. Then we head to the PC area looking for something, preferably a dungeon crawler. EVERYTHING we like is online now. Civ, most of the RPGs even a lot of the FPS.Well Target does not have the best selection in general. So tonight when at Circuit City we look again. A better selection But still every one that we picked up and drew our attention was online and p2p.

So I have a question for the game mfrs. What if I lose connectivity? What if I cannot afford the fee and the sftw package. What if I decide the game sucks. And where do 12 year olds get a credit card to play a p2p game online? Sorry but it smacks of double dipping to me. $40,00 for a game and then a monthly fee?Plus upgrades for when the coders change the system on the fly. Maybe Freecell isn't so bad after all.