The troubling thing is that people will actually say that because it went for $440 last week, that a BIN that is more than half again as much is somehow a good price. This is how these prices get so out of control so quicky. Why not double the price? Tripple! It its worth $1000, it must be worth $2000, right?
This game is, what, 16 years old? And for the first 13-14 years of its uber rare existance it was less than $100. Now, all of the sudden $777 is fair?
And all this while the JP version is like...$35 or something. For the extra $750 you could actually hire a translator to play through the whole game with you, and then you wouldn't be at home by yourself all day.