Gil Issues @ 50

[FyeyaHerald]

Although I fear I'm trolled here. Playing the AH actually pulls even more Gil out of the economy.

Also currently tons of people bring new Gil into the economy due to quest rewards. Once a majority is 50 more Gil will leave the game than enter it. And even crafting damages the equipment so that adds to the Gil drain too not just fighting.

*sigh* And fates give very little Gil while damaging your gear, so there is no real net gain of Gil.

And when that happens, SE can add a new gil source. For now, that source is NOT needed and would only be exploited. OPs point stands until deflation actually happens.

[Zakalwe]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...#threads/86954

Don't see that anyone posted this, but with tomorrow's update the cost of repairs and dark matter are supposed to come down (and substantially at least in the case of DM5).

[Iskander]

^ Guess that means they decided there was a gil problem. IMAGINE THAT.

[mythicrose]

I keep seeing multiple threads about gil problems at level 50. For one, many of those players seem to lack crafting or gathering professions. I for one can generate more gil in a day's worth of crafting leves than I could ever spend dungeon crawling at my level. Do crafting leves offer less gil at level 50? I can attest the level 30 crafting leves give more gold than level 15. I can only assume the level 45 leves would pay out even more.

At the very least, the rushers will need to wait on us that are generating gil through our leves to buy HQ mats, drops, etc from them if they don't turn to crafting/gathering leves for themselves.

You are not 50 sir. Apparently you havent read that gil problems start at endgame high 50s.

And I've yet to read many, if any, level 50s that have problems generating gil through high level crafting leves. Those that don't want to put any effort or time in any aspect of the game outside of dungeon crawling WILL have to depend on those of us that do take the time to generate gil through leves to buy what ever said people throw on the market.

Oh, and unless I'm mistaken with the dark matter, don't people need to have a relevant crafting profession at specific levels to utilize it?

[Iskander]

You are not 50 sir. Apparently you havent read that gil problems start at endgame high 50s.

[Ispen]

^ Guess that means they decided there was a gil problem. IMAGINE THAT.

That or they just caved to the people whining.

[Ceol]

And once again, someone confuses macroeconomics with microeconomics.

I don't think anyone who plays an MMO all day is in any position to speak as though they understand economics. Most economists barely understand economics.

[Shigaru]

The stupidity of people is really starting to baffle me!

Youre gathering? GREAT!!! Guess whos buying your stuff? Crafters!!!

You know how crafters make their money? They sell their crafted gear, using your mats, to the battle classes!

Know how the battle classes afford their gear? They use their nest egg that they built up by leveling to 50! Once that's gone, nothing! They'll be forced to level a gathering class in order to make money!

What happens once they are gathering? You lose your market because they are selling to crafters!

What happens then? They level crafts! Uh oh there goes the crafting market!

Yay everyone is self sustainable now and no one makes money! Oh wait, we cant afford repairs because we're broke!

[Decoyninja]

I'll try to help with that. The complaints about gil revolve around gil being generated primarily via leveling quests which are finite. This introduces a problem since gilsinks continue exponentially into lvl50+ gameplay and questing stops. Playing the market as you suggest doesn't generate gil, it merely redistributes it while acting as a gil sink for the overall community through its taxation.

Everyone leveling and doing quests means the economy is flooded with gil. That will change when we all stop questing.

[Svennyblaze]

Only people complaining really are the level 50 peeps who are constantly rerunning dungeons. They are really not contributing anything to this game all they want is the greatest dungeon gear so they can keep rerunning the dungeons. The games only been out for a few weeks are these people just constantly going to rerun the same dungeons til new high level ones come out so they can constantly do them.

Heres an idea instead of doing these dungeons over and over again go out there try something new and make some gil. Take 3-4 days off of dungeons and go out there and make that money. Guess what the dungeons will still be there in a week, nobody is going to out gear you cause you are all gonna have the same high end gear since there is no new content for a few months.