I've just been playing the beta, and trust me, they didn't.
It was a christmas present - they even have a special for the holidays, for $35 you get two copies, both with current beta access.
I don't believe it's on the consoles anyway.
It is very faithful to the original in many ways, albeit with new features and a shiny new engine.
However, it does get glitchy when 11+ players are in a server, lag problems arise - and It isn't optimized well enough yet, but it is beta, and they update it weekly so I
imagine these are all things they fixed - but from what stable games I have had, they are very fun and it seems like It is worth the money.
