

Therefore, my recommendation is to treat this as a single-player game only, and either rent it or wait until the price comes down to buy it.

This calls into question the $40 price tag. Quite frankly, whether you buy a new copy or pay $10 for the multiplayer add-on, I can't make any kind of assurance that you'll be able to play online with regularity, unless you talk your friends into buying the game too. The bottom line is that to provide paying customers with online opponents, this game needs all the players it can get, and instead the suits are discouraging people from playing online. But when I tried to access multiplayer games on Wednesday and Thursday nights (following the Tuesday release), I couldn't find a single game. Also, I sympathize with the fact that multiplayer support costs money, and I know that used game sales don't produce any revenue for publishers. This is the kind of move that a big-name publisher can get away with, especially on a high-profile game.
