For 15 bucks if you get a week or two out of it, that's more then enough value for me.  I don't expect a $15 game to keep me enthralled forever, but the time I played it was very fun. So if you enjoy it buy it, I know the team at Uber has pledged to support it, so it should have some legs. 

I completely agree. I like this game, but I can't get myself to buy it. I ended up saving my money for Lara Croft.

It will always have people playing it. There is only one gametype so the community won't be segmented.

I've played around 100 hours of it already, and am likely to play some more before Reach comes out, so I'd say it was worth it.

I played the trial on three different accounts. I had my fun with it.

It's an online only game, a headliner from the Summer of Arcade, and it got great reviews. I think there'll be people playing it for a while. 
 
Usually I find the online games that don't have anyone playing anymore are either really old games like Castle Crashers or games with a single player component as well as multiplayer, like Assault on Dark Athena. 

"You say that no one is going to be playing the game in 3 months, so you - and a whole lot of other people who think the same way as you - are going to make sure that's true by not buying it.   Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy.   You should buy the game rather than assisting in it's death. "

bought it.... love it.......  i think it will be around for awhile because of the focus on mutliplayer.... and a focus on one game mode....

I'm sure people will be playing it for a while.. It's like a console players TF2, because well.. console TF2 is terrible.

Okay, after seeing a few of the responses here, and realizing I'm only exacerbating the abandonship problem by not buying it, I decided to dive in. 
 
I bought the game at some point last night and have enjoyed almost every second of it since.  My only complaints are some lag issues, and some small annoyances with players abusing certain abilities(though this is to be expected with any game).  The frame rate problems really only came up in Blitz mode, but there I'm just fighting NPCs so I don't care so much. 
 
Love the game, I just hope it keeps going so I can come back to it in a few months.

Battlefield 1943 came out during last year's summer of arcade and there's still tonnes of people playing that.

People still play Marble Blast, your argument is invalid.
 

MARBLE BLAST IS FUCKING AWESOME BY THE WAY

" I completely agree. I like this game, but I can't get myself to buy it. I ended up saving my money for Lara Croft. "

For $15 would that really matter? Can you seriously see yourself caring about MNC in January? People do still play Battlefield 1943 btw.

" @supermike6 said:

" I completely agree. I like this game, but I can't get myself to buy it. I ended up saving my money for Lara Croft. "

It's not really that different. Lara Croft is though to play with friends. It has single player, but seems an afterthought.  "

I think you certainly make a point, but there will ALWAYS be a contingent of people that play this game.  Okay... perhaps not always, but at least for a couple years to come now.  I got Shadowrun... yes... Shadow-fucking-Run about a year after its release.  Every time I played that game, there were full lobbies  Sure, it only had a few hundred players still faithfully active, but they were there. 
I find you don't really need a justification for not purchasing a game that you actually like.  I've sincerely liked quite a few games, followed them, got the demos, etc., only to not pick them up at release time.  Sometimes some games just fall through the cracks, regardless of quality or previous interest in them. 
 
EDIT:  And now I see that you actually bought the game... IGNORE MEEE!

" @Jeust said:

" @supermike6 said:

" I completely agree. I like this game, but I can't get myself to buy it. I ended up saving my money for Lara Croft. "

It's not really that different. Lara Croft is though to play with friends. It has single player, but seems an afterthought.  "

Yeah, but I have a brother to play split-screen with. He won't be gone in a month. Also, the single-player is surprisingly good. "

" @supermike6 said:

" I completely agree. I like this game, but I can't get myself to buy it. I ended up saving my money for Lara Croft. "

It's not really that different. Lara Croft is though to play with friends. It has single player, but seems an afterthought.  "

Same way that I feel

dude i played big bumping at like 3 am a few months ago and got a game going in one try. yknow.. the burger king game from 4 years ago.  
 
a game like this will never stop having available players.

" @Jeust said:

" @supermike6 said:

" I completely agree. I like this game, but I can't get myself to buy it. I ended up saving my money for Lara Croft. "

It's not really that different. Lara Croft is though to play with friends. It has single player, but seems an afterthought.  "

I'm not sure how you define afterthought. They redid all of the puzzles for a single player. What did you want, an entirely new campaign? The single player in the game is excellent. "

The argument works both ways. With a single-player only game, you'll play it once or twice and probably not play it again. You're more likely to play a MP-only game for longer than a SP-only game.

" @Malakhii:
You do bring up an interesting point.  They've created a unique system for delivering updates to the game, or at least that's what I heard; it does not require updates.  Perhaps this means that they can keep it fresh?  I don't know.   I just don't like the idea that if I get the urge to play it again in a few months that I won't be able to.  I mean, sure maybe I will get to play $15 worth of it for the next few weeks, but... I bought it... shouldn't that mean I can play it on my time not while it's convenient for everybody else?  Sorry, this seems whiney.  Maybe I'll just suck it up and buy it.  Perhaps it's worth the risk.  I'm certainly not solving this XBLA abandonship problem by avoiding the games entirely. "

15 bucks for a month's worth of entertainment? I'd buy that.  
 
But I haven't heard a lot about this game so far, so I still dunno.