An Open Letter to Yoshida-san: Please Slice One Zero Off the Housing Prices

[Raithen]

try using the markets as intended you can easily make 100k+ in less than a day.

Every 100k you make from the markets is 100k taken from other players who now have 100k less to spend on housing. In an optimal market (which is so rare we don't even have it in the real world right now), the majority of that wealth would be coming from the people with the most disposable gil. The problem in the game is that the wealthiest players have no need for literally anything you put up on the market, so that gil is completely out of circulation.

If you're making money on the markets, you're just taking money from other poor-ish people and slowly pooling it into another large economy-free pool of stagnation until you eventually dump it off into the void that is housing land costs of gil removal (and then everyone is that much poorer for it!).

Cue the game's economy is a joke posts.