This is a great point. Before games are to be viewed as art on any level, people need to come to the understanding that designers are simply trying to give us the story and experience that they saw in their minds. It may be incredibly short, or it may be incredibly long, just as movies are. It is not their responsibility that the publishers give their customers good bang for their buck.

It's the reality of gaming as a capitalist industry that people are going to be disappointed with short games. I admit that I am. But all games do not cost $60 dollars (very few do... actually. I'm not sure why that number was brought up). You can always wait until the game has dropped in price. Sure, that doesn't encourage creative short games as much, but it takes away the excuse to complain.

On the note of games costing $60, I predict that this will fail. It is too soon. $50 dollars is still a lot of money to people. I will never spend more than that on a game until I have to.

Remember when they were trying to charge $70 for SNES games? I think Goldeneye was $70 too when it first came out. Fuckers.