You can't just slap in an observer mode and call it a day, saying CoH2 is going to be some kind of a mystical 'esport'. It has to be competitive first, and satisfying second. Right now it's neither, and if it came out today, I wouldn't buy it.
I agree with you, I'm not paying $60 for this, I'm sure it will drop in price pretty quickly.
I hope I don't get banned for saying this, because I've seen other's get banned for making similar posts.
I may wait til it drops to $20...I only paid a $1 for COH1 and all of the expansions combined and from what I've seen COH1 is much than COH2, I just can't see wasting that kind of money.