Eh, seems like some price backlash criticism going on here. If all pins were valued equally MM would still be at the top of my list of favorites. It's true there are many other good games for much less money, but I've played most of those games extensively and owned many of them and I don't think they hold a candle to Medieval.
The kinda funny thing is that the price vs quality complaints were rampant even when MM sold for the then-insane sum of $4-5k. Reading through those old threads on RGP is pretty hilarious now.