Hey, I agree with you,
icycalm. It's just weird for people to think about since you're right, we're all used to it by now. It used to be that you'd go to the store, buy your game, come home and play it. Maybe if you bought it shortly after its release they'd say hey, you get a T-shirt with that. Then came the imports, which you have to buy online, and usually you don't even get to try it before you buy it. Then you get the option to pay extra for those extras that you didn't know you were getting, since you can't really walk into the store when the game is released to get them.
Then you have to send money through PayPal to some dude in Japan that buys the game for you and sends it to you because a certain place gives out extra extras but only to those in Japan.
Eventually they're going to require some sort of verification, or say "one item per person," so you have to send money to some dude in Japan that gives the money to some Japanese dude that buys the extras to give to him to send to you. I mean the game.
Really, I love soundtracks and posters and everything... but I am really,
really looking forward to playing this game. As NCSX say, "Play mechanics at first glom appear routine where the gals blast away at their foes with standard vulcan shots and flit through mazes of enemy shots." I can hardly
wait to flit.
