First article about the House pricing.

[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.