I recommend getting it while you can this year if you haven’t. Then it turns rare and will start going up in price. $40US is the best you can hope for physically for maybe another year and then it goes out of print. They are super mainstream and their games will not end up being so rare that their value exceeds MSRP/RRP. They’re all too happy to pull the sale trigger. Same goes for Ubisoft (Rabbids, Sparks of Hope) as they run deep discounts on many of their titles if you wait long enough, or even within a couple months of release, on both retail and digital. That is clearly an exception where the digital price will not come close for a long time, if ever. That said, I picked up Bravely II for $25US physical on clearance at Best Buy last year (in-store only, it’s not listed for that price online). So their physical releases will not likely become expensively rare these days unless it’s a collector’s edition (though the Dragon Quest franchise, on the Enix side of SquareEnix, is a different story). And they’ve learned their lesson over the years, so to speak, when it comes to availability of Final Fantasy-related games, at least. SquareEnix run somewhat frequent 50% off sales on older titles. Sometimes you need to do research and treat these games like a commodities market from right before the game releases, especially the niche games, so you don’t get burned by missing out on a game you want. The physical and used market is nuanced heavily in that not every game you’re looking at will end up “cheaper if you know where to look or wait long enough”. I absolutely bought Ryza 2 day one because of that. (even though Final Battle makes vanilla 2 obsolete, it holds value just because it’s Attack on Titan, and had a small print run) Atelier Ryza 1, another KT published title, was a sleeper hit that was readily available physically for a little bit after release, then turned super extra rare seemingly overnight and was getting resold for over $100 on ebay before KT ordered the reprint. What we’re saying here is Attack on Titan, vanilla 2 and Final battle, due to various factors, will not drop in price. But there are certain times when the window of opportunity for sales of certain games to drop in price is absurdly tiny you might as well just buy it at full price or at a mediocre sale if you’re collecting, or settle for digital sales if you just want to play the game. Or if it’s a title published by a mainstream company where you know you can just wait for Black Friday sales or some other holiday and you can get it cheaper.
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