First article about the House pricing.

[Blackweaver]

I have only 250,000 to my name. I suspect the majority of players at any given time, will have on a single retainer, anywhere between 250,000 to 300,000 gil tops. Hundreds of millions of gil is not the norm, and one must question how someone even has that amount to begin with.

[Greywizaqrd]

I have only 250,000 to my name. I suspect the majority of players at any given time, will have on a single retainer, anywhere between 250,000 to 300,000 gil tops. Hundreds of millions of gil is not the norm, and one must question how someone even has that amount to begin with.

Because they exploited 1.0 gil through atomos and selling items to NPCs.

[Artamie]

Because they exploited 1.0 gil through atomos and selling items to NPCs.

I guess they're running with the assumption that everyone did this though I'm not sure how much really could have been made after taking into account the ARR denominations. If this is the primary culprit though, way to punish those who refused to participate in the same practice.

[Shinebox]

I have only 250,000 to my name. I suspect the majority of players at any given time, will have on a single retainer, anywhere between 250,000 to 300,000 gil tops. Hundreds of millions of gil is not the norm, and one must question how someone even has that amount to begin with.

They spent time crafting and gathering when the game launched instead of pew pewing in the dungeons

Those level 49 HQ rings were about 90-150k each. Now they are 4k and the price of the mats has not really changed. Imagine how much gil someone made on those the first month of release. There are a ton of items this happened with I took advantage of this opportunity to make gil knowing very well that end game could wait.

I started with 500k from 1.0 and now I have more than enough gil to pay for housing land.

[DarkRain]

They spent time crafting and gathering when the game launched instead of pew pewing in the dungeons

I have all gathering classes in the mid 30s i have 5 crafting classes in the 30s i have 500k to my name . 250k in company chest 250 on me at all times . I have the most gil out of my FC members at the moment. If any one FC can afford 125mil house ( price on my server ) they would have had to have made 1,388,889 gil per day for the last 3 months. If one person has made this much gil in one day everyday there a bot . there is no way a live person is going to mindlessly farm mats or craft that much for that long every single day .IF a Free Company had 20 members and each member everyday gave 20k a day for the house that is 400k a day as a free company it would still take 11 months to get the largest house . If you have 20 members and each gave 50k a day that is 1mil a day but would still take 125 days or 5.5 months . MOST people do not have or make this kind of money in a day

[kukurumei]

They spent time crafting and gathering when the game launched instead of pew pewing in the dungeons

Those level 49 HQ rings were about 90-150k each. Now they are 4k and the price of the mats has not really changed. Imagine how much gil someone made on those the first month of release. There are a ton of items this happened with I took advantage of this opportunity to make gil knowing very well that end game could wait.

I started with 500k from 1.0 and now I have more than enough gil to pay for housing land.

And in those first days, we had deflation, not inflation. Considering that repair cost as yoshi himself said "drain more gil then the economy produced".

And anything you made was easily gone back in melding materias. and then hit with the RMT gil seizure(if you were scheming enough to cash in on those sells)

On my server It was approx 300-500k a day for the early people (I know that first hand). But was easily offset by melds that easily cost 2mil-4mil of materia melds.

Now that the prices are much more lowered, it's about the same. about 100k a day in moving inventory(if you're lucky) and about the same in lower cost of materia.

So gil hasn't change. No one is sitting with 1mil a day because the market itself prevents that. You maybe able to put millions worth of items on the AH, but it'll never move fast enough to cash into gil.

Many people stupidly say "I made 300k gathering today". When they really mean "I put 300k of mats on the AH". It may take a week if not more to sell, if sell at all.

[DarkRain]

And in those first days, we had deflation, not inflation. Considering that repair cost as yoshi himself said "drain more gil then the economy produced".

And anything you made was easily gone back in melding materias. and then hit with the RMT gil seizure(if you were scheming enough to cash in on those sells)

On my server It was approx 300-500k a day for the early people (I know that first hand). But was easily offset by melds that easily cost 2mil-4mil of materia melds.

Now that the prices are much more lowered, it's about the same. about 100k a day in moving inventory(if you're lucky) and about the same in lower cost of materia.

So gil hasn't change. No one is sitting with 1mil a day because the market itself prevents that. You maybe able to put millions worth of items on the AH, but it'll never move fast enough to cash into gil.

Many people stupidly say "I made 300k gathering today". When they really mean "I put 300k of mats on the AH". It may take a week if not more to sell, if sell at all.

It is as i suggested . On my server ( Diabolos ) the largest FC house is 125mil . IF you have at least 20 members and each member saved 50k every day it would take 4 months to get the house ( 20 members times 50k =1mil per day times 125 days = 4 months 5 days saving every single day ) IF and i do mean IF the land is still there . So you and your members might be saving for something you wont even be able to get for months and when you have the gil for it the land might not be there anyway. I think the average FC is 15 to 20 members active. I know FC who have 100+ members but only have a few members that are on most have left or quit