IF you are not from the US, you can abuse the weak dollar.
Its definitly worth it. I play SP only and i have spend countless hours (and i bought Dom 2 back in the day, too).
As for the $55 price, presumably Shrapnel has done their D3 marketing research and can make more profit selling say 100 games a month for $55, and figure they can't sell say 300 games a month for $30.
Purely OOI, do you have any evidence that Dom still ships anything like 100 units p.m.? If there are that many new players each month, they don't seem to be coming here...
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