I would like 99 of these, and 99 of those, and 99 tents to pitch at the hottie.

Looks like most people haven't played Digital Devil Saga or Shin Megami Tensei. You will be begging for money in those games (especially in Nocturne).

This is mainly because money isn't just used for items. In DDS, you have to purchase new skills, and while prices are okay in the begiinning, they get very high later on (easily 1 000 000 macca or even more), while most enemies in the normal game don't drop anywhere near enough, especially if you want to max out everyone on your party. This wasn't so much of a problem in the first DDS, siince some monster dropped special items, sellable from 60000 to 192000 macca, but in DDS2, getting money was pretty hard, since most monsters hardly drop these items anymore, and you were forced to limit yourself to only a few specific skills, instead of maxing out the mantra grid.

Money is even harder to come by in Nocturne, if you suck at the Kalpa tunnels like I do. You don't really need to rely on money to get the good items here, you're better off hunting for gems for that, but you need it to get old demons out of the compendium. While prices are still fair in the beginning, later on it'll get ridiculously expensive, while the money amount that enemies drop is still low.

Jam it back in, in the dark.