I'm telling you, unless they open up IPs how they should, even IPv6 will run out.
and honestly, I wish the price would go down, but who freaking knows with such ridiculous commodities as numbers/addresses? TLDs for domains have constantly opened up, and the price just keeps increasing (yay ICANN, yay!)
As soon as IPv6 gets implemented, they'll have to start rolling out the next system or batch of addresses.
I stopped looking into all this stuff about a year or two ago. It's just craziness now until something official finally happens, and even then it will still be general silliness among online "standardizing" companies (like ICANN, w3, ...others)