I'm sorry, I just can't agree. It's ten dollars. It's less than the price of a halfway decent meal. It's less than the price of a music cd. It's two pints at the pub. It's certainly worth more than a McDonalds meal, which is the $5 price point. If you're not willing to spend $10 on the game, fine, maybe it's not worth that much too you, but don't act is if the price is high for what you get. It just makes you sound like a cheapskate.
Is there any particular reason you got personal? Maybe I just have a different concept of money than you do. I make about 900 net € each month, which go almost wholly into rent, light, water, and food. Anything I earn beyond that costs me a night of misery. So yes, I tend to watch my extra expenses, and ten bucks is about on the upper limit that I might casually spend on a game. And I'm kind of dissatisfied with what I got from the money, considering that in the past simmilar indie-investments have yielded superior games (eg: Atom Zombie Smasher, SPAZ.). I don't overly regret it, because its whithin my margins, and I do like the concept -I'm kind of hoping that the developer will try to iron at least some of the wrinkles out, and I like supporting original ideas, even if at times the execution is kind of disappointing- but
I honestly don't think I got my money's worth. If that makes me a cheapskate, so be it.
By the way, one last note: the gross ammount it costs has no bearing on whether you feel you got your money's worth or not. A disappointing one-dollar purchases is still a disappointing one-dollar purchase. It does have bearing on the subsequent annoyance, however. I'm mildly annoyed by the difference between what I got and what I expected (for reference: I purchased this game because I got SPAZ from the Bundle and enjoyed it).
It gets repetitive yes but it doesn't lose its fun. If being repetitive was a fun killer then I don't know how Tetris and PacMan ever made it big.
Perhaps I should specify that it gets repetitive in a bad way, to me. It's just that the avaiable actions are too limited, and it tends to get me bored fast.