But at Target (or even Nordstrom) if you use your product for a time they might not give you a refund at all! At least at WGT they will buy back your old clubs, for a percentage of the new club price.
Adam, let's look at this concept of "virtual". The grass on the course is not real, but we pretend that it is. The golf balls in this game are not real, but we pretend that they are, complete with wearing out over time and with the ability to become lost. And the clubs in this game are not real, but we pretend that they are. So pretend that they scuff, and the grooves wear out and the steel shaft gets a little bent when we pull it over our virtual knee while leaving a pitch shot short from the 2nd cut of rough.
If you're willing to accept the virtual "realness" of other things in the game you have to also accept the virtual "realness" of the clubs.
Besides, it purportedly costs WGT $200,000 to implement a new course. Who's going to pay for that? I suppose they could supplant that with a ton of pop-ups and advertising on the screens... but I'll take a pass on that.
I had a date Friday night and with dinner and a couple glasses of wine the bill came to $127 with tip. That's one day in time, money spent, and the date was a dud. At least when I spend my money at WGT I get to continue enjoying my expenditures.
Maybe I need to begin going on "virtual" dates...