29th December 2003, 8:16 PM
I see where you're heading with that too. I count the price of something including sales tax because I honestly don't care what goes to the company and what goes to the store. I just care that I pay. Let me use yet ANOTHER thing. PAcman VS, would you call that free? You have to buy one of many little Namco titles to get it. It's the exact same as the collectors disk thing, minus the need to use the US mail system. However, I KNOW you wouldn't call Pacman vs. free and would readily accept that you DIRECTLY PURCHASE it. Same with this collector's disk. You are BUYING it. The price of the game is included in buying the two games or gamecube. You aren't choosing to get your free gift. You are choosing whether or not you bought two games for roughly $100 or 6 games for roughly $100.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)