WHAT?! 625 Million for first class House?

[yamface]

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I think you are not looking at this right. Market board might be dead on your server because people just make money shouting offers. You can't just say economy is shit just because official documents say you only sell 2 hq items per day. It can very much be alive still. I mean.. I have a full time job + overtime hours, I sign on to do a few things a day now. And I still have enough to finance my own house, down to some decorations. I just play the game, but still have 8 figure gil. I really can't imagine how inflated servers are..

In any case if they are wrong, they will change it. SE is not that stupid.

[Aenarion]

I think you are not looking at this right. Market board might be dead on your server because people just make money shouting offers. You can't just say economy is shit just because official documents say you only sell 2 hq items per day. It can very much be alive still. I mean.. I have a full time job + overtime hours, I sign on to do a few things a day now. And I still have enough to finance my own house, down to some decorations. I just play the game, but still have 8 figure gil. I really can't imagine how inflated servers are..

In any case if they are wrong, they will change it. SE is not that stupid.

There is no realistic reason why all of a sudden the market board, which have always been the primary hub of economic activity, would suddenly go dead in favor of shouts. Which, FYI, have also pretty much disappeared entirely these days. You're looking at the issue from a micro (ie, personal) point of view, what I'm talking about are on the macro level (server-wide). The current inevitable decline is something that was painfully obvious from day 1 to anyone who understood how the system works.

In short, there are very little in this game that drives demand for anything outside of leveling crafting, which is inherently a finite number. As more and more of the population finished their crafting, the customer base becomes smaller and smaller, while the number of suppliers continue to increase. And this doesn't even include people who weren't into the crafting side of the game, I know more than a few people who have been playing since the start of 1.0, but have less than a mil to their name still.