To be fair, nobody went this crazy when Nicalis re-released Wonder Boy: Dragon's Trap PS4 at price parity with the Switch version. Everyone demands transparency from LRG, but it's starting to feel like that transparency always comes back to bite them.
At the end of the day, my buying evaluation hasn't changed: "Is X game worth buying at Y price?" Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I'd rather not be charged an extra $5, but I'd rather be charged an extra $5 than have LRG fold in a year.
You know what would help out a lot? Mitigating shipping costs. I pay a ton of money for shipping. Doug, is there any way to implement something like a LRG shipping club, where we pay $50-60 for "free" shipping, and as long as we have two games ready to go they'll be shipped out at the end of the month in a nice box? That works out to about $5 a month for shipping, and since many games aren't ready to ship out yet, I barely notice the delay anymore. If someone has to have that game *right now*, they just have it shipped normally.
This wouldn't be like a subscriber club or anything... strictly just for shipping.
Edit: Just checked my order history, and I spent something like $120 on shipping last year. A lot of those games were single games that I also tacked a box onto.