RE:Sad endiing to a fun game.. (cont.) <Revnwolf,Sierrawolf>

[MarkovChain]

Like others have already pointed out, today in FFXI the top gear is r/ex.... and thats how it should have been when you started. I always found it interesting that the top gear wasnt r/ex thank goodness SE fixed that problem.

Don't think you played the game for the last 5 years, do you ¿ Sky gear - MOSTLY rare ex, salvage gear all rare/ex, limbus gear all rare ex, sea gear all rare ex (except ... AV drops lol) , Nyzul gear rare ex, VNM gear mostly rare ex and I think I'm forgetting some. Abyssea changed thing but It definitely didn't change the best gear from buyable to not buyable. If you sticked to non rare ex gear back in the day I'd say you were pretty average and nowhere close to having "top" gear.

/facepalm

[MarkovChain]

Anyone else play during inflation and pay 10m for a Vcloak or an NQ Scorpion Harness?

Because scorpion harness +1 was top gear ? Are you kidding me lol.

[Lexin]

This is the 2nd time in the games life stuff that was expensive is now dirt cheap. During inflation I farmed my ass off to get a Hauby which at the time was around 5mil got it eventually but after leaving the game for awhile it was only worth 400k-600k. Another case I bought Moliones's Syther and ring for around one mil again left the game for awhile and guess what was worth only around 200k and now combined they are worth maybe 40k.

My point is you can leave the game for a few months or years and the price of stuff will NEVER be the same as it was when you leave. At first yeah I was a little PO'd but got over it quickly. Also now gil really is not all that much part of the game at higher level.

[Anethia]

Ok I've posted here a couple times now but I feel a real life analogy is needed.

According to the OP's logic: I go out tomorrow and buy a $32,000 2011 chevy impala with all the bells and whistles. I have worked for 3 years to earn enough money to buy it. I hang on to that car for 10 years, I've loved it, paid it off and just taken really good care of it. All the while 20 different models of that car have been released over the same time period. In 2021 I take my car in for trade and find out it's value is now 6x less than what I paid for it. According to the OP's logic I should be mad at the manufacturer because they released new models with newer better stuff which caused the demand for my model to drop thereby causing it's market value to depreciate.

My car is still good, it's just the market value for the model that changed because newer stuff came out.

Well to the OP I say this, welcome to real world economics in a video game format. It's pretty foolish to expect values of items to remain the same when new things come out. That's just how it is, but by your logic I should be mad at General Motors for releasing newer models that made mine obsolete, rather than blaming a market that demanded newer models. Think about that one for a bit.