Quote Originally Posted by Mahoro View Post
Most people were valuing VW bodies as 20 million based on the dev's suggested implementation of tickets. Sure, it doesn't have a static gil value, but you can bet that whatever gil value it DOES have is many many times lower than the hundreds of manhours people have invested in NM's that don't drop anything but logs. My point is we do stuff that doesn't directly compensate our hours for gil all the time, and will continue to do so.

EDIT: In fact, VW with a ticket system is a better analogy. Once the tickets are implemented, bodies WILL have a static cost. However, the secondary market will be extremely low because people won't do PUGs if they already have the rare item, and most tickets will remain intra-LS because that is commonly when someone will do a VW and get an extra ticket for something they already have. Limited-to-zero market alternative, and all the opportunity cost gil in the world you could farm in Dynamis won't get you closer to the item. At some point, if you want the item, you will have to spam the NM another hundred times in PUGs or join a LS where tickets are sold/DKP'd to other members.
The bodies can be valued if and only if there is a ticket system. If there is a ticket system, smart people will stop doing Voidwatch as it would be a complete waste of their time when they can just buy bodies (assuming a 20M pricetag). As long as the ticket system is not currently implemented, then the bodies have infinite cost which explains the past trends.