The other day I finally bought Rule of Rose and Resident Evil: Dead Aim. I just got RE today and RoR come in a few hours later.
I'd been putting a few dollars aside to buy Rule of Rose for the last year and a half or so. It was severely expensive, from $90 to $200, so I was always apprehensive about spending that money on just one game. S*** really hit the fan this christmas when all the copies were disappearing and getting a copy was quickly becoming more expensive. Before I knew it it was $150 just for the disc. I finally had enough where I could pay the difference without passing out but it ended up dropping $200.
Almost two years of saving up because I couldn't pay $100 and I ended up paying almost twice as much. It still really hurt dropping off that much cash for a game I used to own. I've never paid this much for any game, even collector's editions of my favorite anything, and I doubt I ever will again. Looking at the pattern, though, if I kept waiting the prices would keep rising till it got so expensive I'd never be able to buy it. I put an extra $10 and got Dead Aim, which is the poor man's RE4, if you've ever seen it.
This here is my argument for piracy. Games like this deserved to be played but who can pay that much for a game? It's never going to be released digitally, I asked Atlus, and they told me it was up to the developer and they are gone, so how will people get to play it? The only way is to pirate it. This is the only way I can think of that people would get to play this game or those like it. If a developer is still active and the game is a reasonable price I say support the makers, but there are more than a few games that are like this.
There is another game I want with a similar set up as this called Demento. That one is around $80 for a copy but the developer is still around, Capcom, in fact. In a situation like this I'd say pester them for a PSN digital release because I'd pay $5-$20 in a heartbeat for that game. I think I might start bombarding Capcom about it.
... Also bought a replacement flow regulator.
