Quote Originally Posted by zdub303 View Post
Not really all that true, im levelling to 50 with two of my friends, they have done almost zero crafting, and certainly havent made any money off of it, and they both have around 250k gil. Just from questing their main class to 48 and turning in allagan pieces. With very little in this game for non-crafters to bother buying, 100k for a relic precursor wep would not be that unreasonable in those early days. Now? Sure.. the market is saturated, but demand far exceeded supply in the first week.
Exactly, they are not being frivolous with their money, they have just been questing. Get them to 50 after running out of quests, then get them to start running end game content without doing anything else, they will soon start to see that 250k or whatever they have disappear.

Also I don't think people realised just how bad the Gil fountains were going to be in the first week, hence why so many didn't care that they were parting with so much money. In reality things are very different and people need to stop being exploited due to illegitimately inflated prices.