The way I see it, here's a lesson for all you people complaining about your $60 being wasted. Don't buy the game! Either don't buy it at all and save yourself from your inevitable bitching year after year, or a novel idea, wait for a week or two before buying it, or rent it first. After the community got it's hands on the game and started picking it apart with a fine tooth comb, that's when issues with the game finally started to come to the surface.

How about just not buying the game right away or renting it, and you'll find out about all of the issues with the game within a matter of days or a week, and you'll then be able to decide if you want to spend that $60 or not. No one is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to buy the game on release day year after year. And if waiting a couple days or a week to buy a video game is too much or too hard for you do or achieve, you have much bigger issues, such as a lack of self-control, than wasting $60 on a video game.