Reddit reviews Dragon Quest Soft Vinyl Monster 003 Dragon Quest III Hero (165 mm PVC Figure) Movic [JAPAN] by Square Enix

Same--I actually gave it up some months ago. Finally got fed up with them yanking players around. So I just came back to check out the last stretch. It's announced they'll be migrating it to some sort of offline version, but we still don't know what that entails. Like right now they have nearly every quest accessible--all the challenge bosses, all the character events with no expiration and they only cost like 5 stamina per play instead of the 30~60. They closed up the gems shop sometime in September I think, so who knows if the offline game will have a gacha attached or if it'll be one-time purchase like they did with Dimensions 2.

https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Monster-Figure-Square-Enix/dp/B005EOFJGW/ Those are the ones I'm picking up. They're all supposed to be to scale with the weapons line.

They also have Erik from XI on preorder now, but I didn't see an exclusive so I'm not as concerned about reserving him.