The value of gil is worth 10x less due to inflation

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Originally Posted by Jellybums

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You really DONT see prices costing more? You been living under a rock, my friend. Prices have been increasing.Not over night. But they increase over time until their tangible value tanks again due to external forces (such as an XPac which makes the items obsolete as a result).

Assuming that you can just keep passively pumping a game economy with money and not see inflation cause "Items (NPC related Im guessing) havent changed in costs" is naive. Cause costs for player goods have been steadily increasing so long as those goods dont go obsolete or they become common through some means.

If that's what's happening in Sargatanas (doubt it), it's not happening in Hyperion. Goods aren't costing more because even with more money being made, there's also more goods to spend them on (new SB items, apartments etc.). That bear rug, kotetsu table, other high lvl items then that used to cost hundreds of thousands of gil on MB actually cost even less now. I don't know what inflation you're talking about. Nobody's complaining how they can't buy anything anymore (other than houses!), or that completing MSQ lvl 1-30 used to buy you 10 bags of groceries and now you could barely fill one.

In fact the very suggestion of the OP will cause inflation, a very artificial one at that. What a bummer to have so much gil than you could spend in this game. But you're not alone and I'd step up to bear that burden for you, little brother... or sister.

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Originally Posted by Melichoir

You really DONT see prices costing more? You been living under a rock, my friend. Prices have been increasing.Not over night. But they increase over time until their tangible value tanks again due to external forces (such as an XPac which makes the items obsolete as a result).

Assuming that you can just keep passively pumping a game economy with money and not see inflation cause "Items (NPC related Im guessing) havent changed in costs" is naive. Cause costs for player goods have been steadily increasing so long as those goods dont go obsolete or they become common through some means.

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Can you give some examples of certain items on Sargatanas you're talking about?

Honestly most of the time whenever I see the price go up for something is it's just because someone decided to control that good. I know I used to watch for Raziqsap in HW which would start at 2200 and would slowly sink all the way down to 350 before someone decided to buy literally all of it available to flip the price.

I've yet to see anything become slowly more expensive in general. The only exception is high quality max potions which slowly rose from 1g per to around 550 now since PotD is only really used to level between 53-60, but that's still an external factor brought about by squadron missions.

Not sure where this rampant price inflation is happening on the market. The only thing I've noticed go up at a obscene rate are the price of shards, which are currently more expensive than most crystals or clusters.

Oh, and perhaps low level crafting gear. However, when those prices are obscene, it's usually because there's only one person currently selling that item. Not exactly what I would call "inflation."

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Originally Posted by QueenSophie

Can you give some examples of certain items on Sargatanas you're talking about?

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I think he meant something like "back in 2.2, the crafted PvE gear costed less than it does now". And to a certain extent, that's true. I remember buying a BRD torso for 700k when it came out, while the 4.1 crafted PvE gear costed more, like 1.5M for the tank torso... Thing is, back then, 700k was basically all my savings since the 3 months I played the game. Nowadays, 1.5M is basically what I get playing for... I don't know. A week or two ? There's an inflation in the prices, but there's also a big increase in player's personal gils, so... actually, things are cheaper now, except for the lvl 1 crafted gear, that cost several millions... But it always was expensive, so... yeah, pretty fair if you ask me.