Quote Originally Posted by Tiggy View Post
This was covered by Yoshi-p quite a while back so I don't remember where the original post is, but I'll try to summarize as best I can.

In 1.0 arrows had to be purchased. Each had a price. They would balance the cost of that against the price of the body piece for the comparable level of gear to a given arrow. So lets say the arrow cost 1/100 the cost of the body piece. This was how they balanced the prices. When they removed arrows from the game they essentially removed all items that cost that little from the game. To compensate they reduce the gil players had in 1.0 to 10% of it's previous value. So a player with 10,000,000 gil entered 2.0 with 1,000,000 instead. They told us this retained full buying power since the entire economy was dropped in price the same way. So now that we are in 2.0 it would require balancing the entire economy once more if we wanted to add ammo back to the game. This is why it will never happen. Ever.
I misunderstood, I thought you meant the did this sometime back in 1.xx as well as the transition to 2.0.