yup; i think there's a lot of psychology involved in here too.
i mean even if it turns out to be a bad game, it would be difficult to accept that it was not worth the 45 bucks.
i mean my friends complain that the tf2 has no tf value, and is just another fps game, but then when i ask: so was your 45 bucks worth it, they answer "yeah man, it's not FF, but it's so fun" and then end up joining the ff server that i'm in, in the next 3 minuites
this only confirms my prediction - once FF:
1. gets smoother animation tweaks
2. gets effects/model tweaks
3. overall improvement of coding optimization
4. overal improvement of graphics
people are gonna use FF as the new standard for tf games
(my secret fear is that valve might try to make employees of FF dev team and we might have to purchase FF from valve, which i would not like; i'd buy it if they had their own company, but not from valve
)