Quote Originally Posted by Horadrim View Post
I think people are taking the "early adoption tax" concept too literally.

It isn't really a thing people go into the game thinking "omfg, let's make them pay!!" it is the rush mentality that comes from trying to do things as early as possible. Everything is more expensive when the demand is high -- and the Early Adoption Tax is just a side effect of the vast majority of people trying to do things the quickest way possible.

The simple fact of the matter is that GEO is a brand new job from a brand new area and all of the most expensive spells have been shown to have alternative drop points. Just like I can't complain about Skirmish items being expensive this early, it is asinine for people to complain about there not being an alternative way to acquire them when they haven't given the economy enough time to work properly.

Just like how, in real life, you'd call someone stupid for having bought a Wii for $2,000 just because it was new, sold out, and they HAD TO HAVE IT NYAO. It is asinine to complain about a problem which will solve itself if you give it time and be patient. Just wait for them to be in stock and problem solved. I've already seen -Ra II spells and higher level Indi spells showing up in the Asura AH for around 200k less than the NPC price. Demanding SE add more and more places for the stuff to come from when we've already seen them dropping from different events is silly...

That's like if I had demanded they add Aerns to non-sea areas back when I was BLU just because I didn't have Sea access...
This. I know part of it is the way people level these jobs but majority of people who are 99 geo now simply abyssea burned the job to 99 anyway. To actually have to put in some effort to acquire the spells seems entirely reasonable and by effort I mean a week or two tops of casually farming gil.