$20 for Special Forces? No way.

[Fisherking]

I don’t think you are going to get the CA guys to touch this one!

It is a bit more than I paid for a preordered hard copy.

CA has licensed Steam to handle the game, and hard copy or soft we have to go through Steam to unlock the units. There are also signature units coming from various retailers as you already know.

While Steam is licensed to distribute the game, I doubt CA or Sega tells them exactly what to charge. Some of the hard copies are deeply discounted and others are not so the retailers set their own pricing. My guess is Steam does too and they are charging what they think people will pay.

All I can say is don’t get it from Steam if you want the SF Edition. Get it some place else for a bit less, but with Steam I think you are supposed to get the game up to 3 days early…I guess that is ok if you don’t want a hard copy.

I do wonder if we can now play with out the DVD in the machine since we have to go through Steam anyway?

Also, It is possible that the units could be added to over the life of the game or on a promotional basis. I hope there is a way to share the codes with friends too.