inflation happens when people got more gil then it needed. It is happening on ffxiv currently. People blamed it on the gil buyers and sellers. People are lazy and will buy gil. Pretty much people will put stuff up for prices that they feel they can get away with. LIke 200K-1mil for leaping boots because people could "afford" it. Controling an economy is actually pretty hard. You need to make sure their is a balance. Pretty much people need "just enough" gil on them not to much and not to little. Right now ffxiv is suffering from a wicked inflation because of the limited gil sink and people being self suffitent and to add gil "raining" down on them from guilleve. (which got nerfed a bit) you have gear in ff14 from 1-20 being 10-100K (currently as a newbie you can't buy these)
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inflation happens when people got too much money and not spending it decently and the sellers get away with high priced goods to get money from thses heavy purse players.
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08-17-2011 08:56 AM #1(0)
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08-19-2011 02:54 AM #2kinda but not quite. Since currency in an mmo is virtual, inflation simply happens when more gil is being generated than being taken out of the system.
Originally Posted by Rosina
Inflation happened fast and quickly the first time around because not only were the fish bots npc'ing caps, but really the only thing people were spending gil on that took the gil out of the system was dynamis. Everything else just circulated.
Unfortunately, things like dynamis/limbus/etc. no longer really applies, so even without the bots inflation this was bound to happen anyway.
As for ffxiv, they tried to fix it via the repair dudes, but like typical SE, it took them forever to try and get that right, and the damage is already done.
They need to put something in the game that is expensive that helps to take money out of the system, then they can change the price once gil levels out.(0)
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