I'm sure that if you went to a particular Barnes & Noble you could buy these books because they sold them for multiple years after the console cycles changed. B&N even had the art book for IX many years ago. It is insane to buy these 3 guides for that much. Whose legs are they pulling? There are even unofficial guides with no pictures and illegal scans of the older books somewhere (?). Seriously though a GameFaqs FAQ probably has more info in it.
Edit: They're revised. My case still stands.
I owned these games at launch. I did well back then even with GameFAQs. It's interesting, but that price. The physical copies of these games don't even go that high.
You can buy VII, VIII, and IX for dirt cheap. It's crazy how they're doing this now versus using the "retro" complaint for their business model.
You might be getting ripped off over strategy guides that don't even touch their original release. You know you could finish each game in its entirely using boosts and items and these guides will be completely useless to you.
That was an awful response a game guide author could give someone. Guides are simple anymore. They're just showing you pictures of what you're already doing and they're talking about it. The W3 e-guide is about as bare as it could get. I didn't even need to use it and nothing really sticks out.
