hey why's it a waste of time, everybody is not born rich, are they ?
There are plenty of college/uni students who support themselves through odd jobs, tuitions etc, and can afford only a modest PC, so what option will they have if they want to play a decent game ?
Whats wrong and time-wasting is EA's ****ty execution of most ideas, especially their Cricket division. There are so many games which deliver BETTER graphics than cricket 2004 on the same system, many of them by EA themselves, a case in point being the FIFA series, but ofcourse they can't spend as much money on silly cricket fans, can they ?