Indeed! If some crappy designer is going to throw some boneheaded piece of game design into something I put my time any money into, screw 'em! I'm not going to waste my time stressing myself out over his mistake because of some made-up rule I'm trying to adhere to.

If there's any rule I abide by these days, it's to not spend more than $20 on a game when I still have piles and piles of them sitting around unopened. Sadly, I had to break that rule a few times recently – Ghost Trick and 999 just seemed that much more likely to vanish forever than to drop to a convenient price. And I'm probably going to do the same to Radiant Historia, sigh.